Assassination Classroom

A creature of unknown origin destroys most of the Moon and issues a warning: unless it is killed by March of the following year, Earth will be destroyed next. As part of its terms, the creature takes a teaching post at Kunugigaoka Junior High School, assigned to Class 3-E, a group of students relegated to a remote campus for their poor results. The government, unable to refuse, offers a large cash reward to anyone who can eliminate the new homeroom teacher, and the students are drawn into the task, though the creature proves fast and hard to harm. The film is the live-action adaptation of the manga and anime series of the same name.

Eiichirō Hasumi directed, working from a screenplay by Tatsuya Kanazawa, with Julie K. Fujishima, Minami Ichikawa and Akira Morii producing. The cast includes Kazunari Ninomiya as the voice of the creature, Ryosuke Yamada as Nagisa Shiota, Masaki Suda, Maika Yamamoto, Haruka and Mio Yuki. Released in Japan in March 2015, the film runs 110 minutes and is the first of Hasumi's two Assassination Classroom features, followed by Assassination Classroom: Graduation in 2016; his later credits include Over Drive, Re/Member, Resident Evil: Death Island and Re/Member: The Last Night.

It is one of six films Hasumi has directed. Audience scores differ between platforms: on IMDb it holds 6.1/10 from around 2,400 votes, while on TMDB it has 7.2/10 from roughly 219 votes. The film's worldwide box office stands at about 25 million dollars.