
Kenichi and Teiko Uhara are one week newlyweds. Promoted to his company Hakuho Ad Agency's Tokyo headquarters, Kenichi heads on a short business trip back to Kanazawa, where he was that branch office's manager, to wrap up his business there, leaving Teiko alone in Tokyo to unpack their apartment. Although he is reported to have left Kanazawa to head back to Tokyo on the day planned, he doesn't come home on the scheduled day, without anyone in his and Teiko's personal life or ... (Full plot summary below)
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Kenichi and Teiko Uhara are one week newlyweds. Promoted to his company Hakuho Ad Agency's Tokyo headquarters, Kenichi heads on a short business trip back to Kanazawa, where he was that branch office's manager, to wrap up his business there, leaving Teiko alone in Tokyo to unpack their apartment. Although he is reported to have left Kanazawa to head back to Tokyo on the day planned, he doesn't come home on the scheduled day, without anyone in his and Teiko's personal life or his business colleagues knowing what happened to him. In addition to the police who Teiko notifies about her husband's disappearance, Teiko is assisted intermittently in trying to locate Kenichi by her mother, Kenichi's brother and sister-in-law, and Mr. Honda, who was a subordinate of Kenichi's at the Kanazawa branch office and its new manager. Teiko realizes through her early investigation that she knows little of Kenichi's life, especially nothing of his friends and colleagues in Kanazawa. This lack of knowledge is illuminated by some information about her husband's past which she did not know, as well as some continuing mysteries about his past, such as no one seeming to know where he had been living for the past eighteen months. Even Mr. & Mrs. Murota, who are supposedly Kenichi's best friends from his years in Kanazawa, he a business client, are unable to provide much information beyond Kenichi becoming more pensive as the wedding approached. Teiko is going to have to piece together these mysteries in Kenichi's life if she is to discover what happened to her husband.
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| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitSentimental strings help to relate this drama to Western noir of years ago. But landscape, season and historical context also couple the stylish film to a distinctly Eastern sensibility. |
| User ReviewMatty SA dark and atmospheric bit of cinematic magic. |
| User ReviewWalter MRather interesting and clever B&W mid-Century murder mystery, even more surprising in that it hails from Japanese cinema. Shortly after her marriage, A wife's "salaryman" heads out of town to remote prefecture of northern Japan on what is supposed to be his last bit of business with his current employer. Instead, he vanishes into thin air. The wife has to travel north to sleuth it out for herself, and it's a twisty, turny trip indeed. To say any more would spoil. RECOMMENDATION: If you like the genre, you'll love this taste of it, garnished with wasabi. |
| User ReviewJessyca ¤Gorgeous black and white with a lush score, this movie is a really entertaining mystery totally worth a Saturday afternoon. |
| User ReviewDavid DAn excellent mystery film. Can appropriately be called Hitchcockian in terms both of storyline and atmosphere but it also in many ways can be described as film noir. Very well photographed. A film mystery fans should definitely see. |
| User ReviewJanick LScénario complexe où encore les sous-titres nous font perdre un peu le fil. On sent l?influence de Kurosawa (principalement Rashômon). |
| User ReviewDavid FSomewhat of a mesmerizing investigative film about a husband who disappears and all the myriad secrets that his wife discovers about him and his life when she goes looking for him. There's a wistful philosophical tone about the mysteries of the world that I liked. |
| User ReviewDavid TTostoncito japones, con una buena ambientacion, pero con un guion complicado, que se pierde en momentos, y contado con muchas prisas. Se puede ver, pero con muchas ganas |