Movie
The World of Kanako
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2014-07-04
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- GYAO, Licri, GAGA Corporation
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Koji Yakusho as Akikazu Fujishima
- Nana Komatsu as Kanako Fujishima
- Hiroya Shimizu as I / Narrator
- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Detective Asai
- Joe Odagiri as Detective Aikawa
- Asuka Kurosawa as Kiriko Fujishima
- Jun Kunimura as Dr. Tsujimura
- Munetaka Aoki as Sakiyama
- Megumi Hatachiya as Detective Aikawa's Wife
- Ai Hashimoto as Morishita
- Fumi Nikaido as Nami Endo
- Miki Nakatani as Rie Azuma
Crew
- Tetsuya Nakashima - Director
- Tetsuya Nakashima - Screenplay
- Nobuhiro Monma - Screenplay
- Miako Tadano - Screenplay
- Akio Fukamachi - Story
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