The World of Kanako
The World of Kanako

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Kanako, a beautiful girl and one of the best students at school, goes missing with all the belongings left behind in her room. Her father Akikazu is now asked by his ex-wife to look for their daughter. He starts a desperate search of Kanako using any means, in the hope of getting his "ideal" family back in place despite the fact that the very reason of the family breakup was because of his problematic personality and behaviors. Following tracks of her past and present and tal... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The World of Kanako:

Koji Yakusho
Nana Komatsu
Hiroya Shimizu
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Joe Odagiri
Asuka Kurosawa

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Kanako, a beautiful girl and one of the best students at school, goes missing with all the belongings left behind in her room. Her father Akikazu is now asked by his ex-wife to look for their daughter. He starts a desperate search of Kanako using any means, in the hope of getting his "ideal" family back in place despite the fact that the very reason of the family breakup was because of his problematic personality and behaviors. Following tracks of her past and present and talking to her "friends," he starts to get to know his daughter whom he never knew or didn't even attempt to know. When Akikazu is led to one clue, he realizes the world Kanako was facing beyond his imagination... Can the father find his daughter, and get back his perfect happy family he has dreamed of after all these years?

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Village Voice - 9/10 by Simon AbramsYakusho'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.
Projected Figures - 8/10 by Anton Bitelrelocates The Searchers (1956) to the landscapes of contemporary Tokyo, as a father looking for his lost daughter comes to embody the most monstrous of patriarchal values from the past.
Austin Chronicle - 7/10 by Marc SavlovThis time out, Nakashima plays it fast, loose, and seriously fucked-up with a father-daughter tale of Tokyo woe that makes Paul Schrader’s "Hardcore" look like a picnic.
The Film Stage - 7/10 by Michael SnydelThe World of Kanako [is a] joy to watch even as it dives thematically deeper and deeper into the tarriest pits of humanity.
New York Times - 6/10 by Andy WebsterMr. Nakashima, it must be said, does have a knack for composition. But the torrential, if glossy, violence — he adores juxtaposing innocuous pop ditties with gruesome set pieces — grows tiresome.
RogerEbert.com - 6/10 by Brian TallericoIt’s a film that’s tempting to dismiss because of its bleak, misanthropic viewpoint on the world, but that would be discounting the quality of the filmmaking and the riveting performance at its center.
Scene-Stealers.com - 6/10 by Eric MelinIf you can handle the excessive nihilism, The World of Kanako may reveal itself to be something more than just a punishing journey, revealing a family rot that's been handed down from father to daughter.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA) - 4/10 by Kathy FennessyThe nihilistic atmosphere eventually becomes so oppressive that it swallows everything in its path.
User Review - 10/10 by Tengil VLollipop-cop alone makes this movie a modern classic.
User Review - 10/10 by Yukio THoly shit... A kick ass mesh of Oldboy, Suicide Club, Visitor Q, Battle Royale, Kill Bill and Sin City. With a layer of originality that makes this powerhouse Feel like a kuck in the gut and a wild F**k. -Mary Catherine, Cowardice Queen.

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