The World of Kanako

(2014)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 229 votes

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Year: 2014

Runtime: 118 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 中島哲也

Cast: Кодзи Якусё, Нана Комацу, 清水尋也, Сатоси Цумабуки, オダギリジョー, 黒沢あすか, Дзюн Кунимура, Мунэтака Аоки, Megumi Hatachiya, Аи Хасимото

Plot

When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.

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?