When I Kill Myself (スイッチを押すとき) 12 years old

Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10, the children are then give a detonator with a red switch. They are told if they press the switch they will die immediately. Most of the children under the experiment, eventually presses the switch and dies. After the completion of the experiment 6 kids remain who did not press the switch. The 6 kids are; strong-minded Masami, weak Naoto, hot-tempered Hiro, impulsive Ryota, wheelchair bound Kimiaki and Aiko who is always thinking of her parents. These 6 kids survived even though they were pressured by project manager Tsukuda to press the switch.

Credits

When I Kill Myself Cast

Name Character
Sawa Suzuki She was 38, now 51 years old as Yoko Kogure
Keisuke Koide He was 27, now 40 years old as Warden Yohei Minami
Rio Kanno She was 17, now 30 years old as Aiko Tahara
Kazuma Sano He was 22, now 35 years old as Naoto Kosaka
Tetsushi Tanaka He was 45, now 58 years old as Koji Maruyama
Seiji Fukushi as Warden Sakamoto

When I Kill Myself Crew

Name Department
Yûsuke Yamada as Novel. Writing
Ryô Nakajima as Director. Directing
Takaya Okamoto as Writer. He was 39 (now 51) years old Writing
When I Kill Myself poster
When I Kill Myself (12 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, September 17, 2011
  • Runtime: 110 minutes