Will "School Days with a Pig" end with a ham sandwich? Yikes!

by Chris MaGee

Doing my morning rounds of the internet I caught sight of a new film that will be featured in competition at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (which also has the same acronym, TIFF, as a little film fest going on here in Toronto right now, but don't let that confuse you.)

"School Days with a Pig" is directed by Tetsu Maeda (A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth) stars Satoshi Tsumabuki as an elementary school teacher who has his sixth grade class raise a pig over the academic year. Sounds cute right? I'm sure it will be, but there's one catch. The kids get to raise the cute piglet on the condition that they have to kill and eat it at the end of the year(!) OKay, I get the point, that bacon and ham sandwich has to come from somewhere, but I'd be really intrigued how Maeda will play this out in the film.

TIFF (the Tokyo TIFF) will run from October 18th to October 26th, after which "School Days with a Pig" will open in Japanese theatres starting November 1st. Check out the official website for the film here, and thanks to Variety Asia Online for the details.