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The World of Kanako

Kawaki (The World of Kanako)

2014

Tetsuya Nakashima

Kôji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Asuka Kurosawa ...

6.0

2,502

Thriller. Mystery. Drama When beautiful straight-A high school student Kanako goes missing, her mother asks ex-husband Akikazu - a drifting, irresponsible former cop - to find their daughter. Akikazu begins a desperate search in the hope of reuniting his ‘perfect family’ - by any means necessary. But as his investigation progresses, Akikazu starts to discover the darkness that lies behind his daughter’s impeccable façade.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A nasty mystery grounded by Koji Yakusho's fierce performance"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Relentlessly unpleasant and ultimately banal."	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"I grew tired of the nihilism of 'The World of Kanako' long before it was over (...) but the quality of the filmmaking never flags."	NEU
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"It's a rush, albeit a dark and ever more disturbing one, kind of like taking some bad acid and mainlining Seijun Suzuki's greatest hits while being battered about the face and neck by a gang of yakuza thugs"	POS
United States	Oleg Ivanov Slant	"Amounts to little more than a wantonly nihilistic tale of one man's self-loathing unconvincingly passing itself off as a paternal revenge saga.	NEG
United States	The Film Stage	"'The World of Kanako' [is a] joy to watch even as it dives thematically deeper and deeper into the tarriest pits of humanity."	POS
United States	Simon Abrams Village Voice	"Yakusho's breathless, riveting performance grounds 'The World of Kanako' even as it threatens to devolve into an unbearable series of nihilistic plot twists and gory set pieces"	POS

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