12 Suicidal Teens

12 Suicidal Teens (2019) is a Japanese mystery drama you can watch online on iFILM. Twelve young people, brought together through a quiet online pact, slip into an abandoned hospital to end their lives as a group. Waiting for them in the room is a thirteenth body — already dead.

So who is the extra corpse, and who carried him in? The deal was for twelve. That means someone here doesn't belong, and possibly a killer is in the room. The planned suicide turns into a cold investigation: the teens vote, argue and piece together who entered when and stood where, and each new theory drags out another person's real reason for wanting to die. Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi keeps almost the entire film inside that one ward, building it into a tense single-room puzzle.

Adapted from Tō Ubukata's novel, its strength is less the twist than the plain question stamped on its tagline: what does it actually mean to want to die. Good for anyone who likes locked-room mysteries in the vein of 12 Angry Men, only with a Japanese register and teenage characters. Stream 12 Suicidal Teens (2019) online on iFILM.