The World of Kanako

About The World of Kanako

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.

Tetsuya Nakashima's The World of Kanako is a 2014 crime mystery film. It runs 118 minutes and was released in July 2014.

Koji Yakusho stars as Akikazu Fujishima, Nana Komatsu as Kanako Fujishima, Hiroya Shimizu as I, and Satoshi Tsumabuki as Detective Asai. Written by Miako Tadano and Nobuhiro Monma.

Shelv files it under relationship, dysfunctional family, obsession, and alcoholism. In the United States it streams on ARROW and Fandor.

The Girl on the Train, Fool's Gold, and Outrage make useful companions to The World of Kanako, all filed under ex-husband ex-wife relationship. It scores 6.4 out of 10 from 232 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.