
Magazine reporter TANAKA is granted request to investigate a year old murder case gone cold, where a "perfect" family - a successful businessman, his beautiful wife and adorable child - were brutally murdered. Tanaka interviews acquaintances of the dead but gradually finds out that the family was not exactly ideal as believed, as stories of their true nature unfold. Equally disturbing are the interviewees themselves, each letting loose their own hidden nature. Meanwhile Tanak... (Full plot summary below)
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Magazine reporter TANAKA is granted request to investigate a year old murder case gone cold, where a "perfect" family - a successful businessman, his beautiful wife and adorable child - were brutally murdered. Tanaka interviews acquaintances of the dead but gradually finds out that the family was not exactly ideal as believed, as stories of their true nature unfold. Equally disturbing are the interviewees themselves, each letting loose their own hidden nature. Meanwhile Tanaka himself is burdened when his younger sister Mitsuko is arrested for child abuse. GUKOROKU is a haunting and intense tale of the demons we face every day - inside and out.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinA coldly mesmerising investigative thriller from Kei Ishikawa in which the cosy, middle-class family unit is revealed to be less nuclear than toxic. |
| South China Morning PostJames MarshKei Ishikawa's enthralling adaptation of Tokuro Nukui's notoriously complex novel is by turns a grisly whodunit and scathing takedown of the respectable middle-classes. |
| User ReviewNicki MGreat Japanese suspense/thriller. I didn't see the twist coming at all. Good character development and background stories. Wow, the men were all pretty awful,despite the imprisoned single mum accused of severe child neglect being the seeming villain. |