the world of kanako
can someone please help me understand the plot of
the world of kanako
? it' s a bit confusing .
can someone please help me understand the plot of
the world of kanako
? it' s a bit confusing. : movies
akikazu fujishima (kôji yakusho) pauses during a brutal brawl in drafthouse films’ the world of kanako. courtesy of drafthouse films .
the world of kanako [ is a ] joy to watch even as it dives thematically deeper and deeper into the tarriest pits of humanity .
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intense violence and a willingness to experiment with genre and style make the world of kanako a film fit for both the arthouse and exploitation crowds .
the world of kanako is f ull of evil characters and negative emotions. would you agree that it may take a masochist to truly enjoy your movie ?
愛知のスケートリンク figure skaters – miki ando (2011 world champion), mao asada (2010 world champion), and kanako murakami (2009 world junior champion) are all nagoya natives, together with aichi - native akiko suzuki (2011 nhk trophy winner) they are currently 4 of the top 12 best skaters in the world. where better to take to the ice than the world’s number - one skating hotspot !
i grew tired of the nihilism of
the world of kanako
long before it was over, and i have a high tolerance for that sort of thing, so that has to be taken into account when assessing the overall product, but the quality of the filmmaking never flags .
yakusho' 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 .
mark schilling of the japan times gave the film 3 out of 5 stars .
i heard this song in world of kanako and tried desperately to find it. the only thing that showed up in google was this thread. : (
at the closing program of the world team trophy, kanako murakami was given the spotlight to thank all her fans and supporters throughout the years. she was also offered a bouquet and a flower crown .
the narrator happens to win one of the swimming competitions and is suddenly thrown into fame. kanako tells matsunaga to take care of the gang of bullies who are after the narrator. the leader of the gang is beaten to a pulp. the narrator is free of being bullied. he is madly falling in love with kanako .
whilst not a film for everyone due to its nihilistic attitude and frequent physical and sexual violence, the world of kanako is a must - see for fans of off - beat cinema .
yes, the 2 girls akikazu is interviewing are former schoolmates of kanako. the one with the grey, short hair got hooked on drugs by her and kanako also got her invovled in the prostitute ring of the yakuza .
admittedly, i grew tired of the nihilism of “the world of kanako” long before it was over, and i have a high tolerance for that sort of thing, so that has to be taken into account when assessing the overall product, but the quality of the filmmaking never flags. you just have to ask yourself if the journey to this ridiculously violent world, however well - constructed, is one worth taking .
based on a mystery novel by akio fukamachi, the world of kanako follows the search for a missing girl through the eyes of her crazed father who begins to realize through the traces she left how little he knew her and his family .
world team trophy came back this year as part of the figure skating 2016 - 2017 season, which was held at the yoyogi national gymnasium in tokyo, japan from april 20 to 23. world team trophy 2017 is the 6th world team trophy, which was first held in japan in 2009 .
tokyo – “ confessions ” director tetsuya nakashima ’s latest hyper - violent drama “ the world of kanako (kawaki) ” has stirred up a storm of controversy since its june 27 release in japan .
much of the the decline of kanako’s skating career started in 2015, golden skate reports, after twisting an ankle during an ice show tour .
the world of kanako is one of the few films in recent memory that can only be described as indescribable. this hyper - violent mystery from japan’s tetsuya nakashima seems to tread vaguely similar ground to his 2010 hit, confessions .
tetsuya nakashima’s thriller “ the world of kanako ” might be filed under what some cineastes call extreme cinema. but screen overkill — and i mean kill — is more like it .
the isu world team trophy 2017 (wtt 2017) closes today to both a beautiful and moving exhibition gala as figure skater kanako murakami announces her retirement from the sport .
the world of kanako is such a nihilistic movie that it doesn' t appear to treat any topic as taboo. as a filmmaker, are there any subjects you shy away from ?
in yet another iteration of the old nightclubs - as - dens - of - vice trope in local films, in “kawaki” the glimpses into kanako’s secret world in are less judgemental than representative of nakashima’s dark view of the human race. there is not a pleasant character in the entire film, though some are less reprehensible than others .
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though the splashy credits for “the world of kanako” recall the devil - may - care genre mash - ups of seijun suzuki (“branded to kill”), nakashima strikes a considerably less playful tone, despite his exuberant displays of ultra - violence and mayhem. the film has more in common with paul schrader’s “hardcore” — by way of “the searchers” — but in the absence of a moral center, it’s less about a father discovering a lurid underworld than about him exposing the internal rot his daughter has inherited like a birthright. it’s the stuff of grand guignol tragedy, but “the world of kanako” doesn’t pause long enough from visceral ugliness to allow any deeper emotions to sink in .
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if 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 world of kanako” contains elements of “ bad lieutenant, ” “oldboy” and even “ the searchers ” but filtered through a lens that’s so covered in grime and blood that many people will consider the nihilistic trip not worth the effort. it’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. based on akio fukamachi’s “hateshinaki kawaki, ” tetsuya nakashima ’s “the world of kanako” is such an in - your - face experience that its opening credits includes words sprawled across it like the old adam west “ batman, ” and those words are “kill! ” and “fuck! ” it sets a tone .
one of the girls, akiko, that kanako has fed to the prostitution ring is the daughter of a teacher. kanako meets the teacher and shows her a picture of akiko in bed with some old guy. the teacher loses her mind and asks kanako why she would do that to a young girl. kanako explains how akiko was never forced or compelled and that she actually enjoys it. the teacher, in a fit of rage, stabs and kills kanako. this is how she dies, in the car. not the yakuza, not matsunaga’s gang, not the narrator. the teacher stabs and kills kanako and then buries her body in a secure location .
a father’s search for his missing daughter takes the “little girl lost” scenario to gruesome extremes in “ the world of kanako, ” a relentlessly unpleasant and ultimately banal journey into a broken family’s heart of darkness. writer - director tetsuya nakashima explored many of these same themes in “confessions, ” japan’s official 2011 submission for the foreign - language film oscar, but here he amplifies every element — the spastic style, the baroque plotting, the parental dysfunction and the hidden malice that poisons adolescent life. while there’s something compelling about an antihero whose obsession is poised on the razor’s edge between love and hate, “ the world of kanako ” buries it in grinding, agitated repetition. devotees of asian extreme cinema may find the redeeming in the irredeemable, but the world outside this band of cultists will be difficult for drafthouse films to penetrate .
this year’s world team trophy 2017 was won by japan, after finishing bronze in the last world team trophy in 2015. golden skate reports that japan finished with a total of 109 points, finishing before russia with 105 points and the usa with 97 points .
describing kanako is most fruitful when you throw away genre and plot and talk about similar films. imagine a film blender. you’ve got lynchian atmosphere and music, tarantino’s propensity for intellectualizing classic exploitation, the breakneck editing of aronofsky’s requiem for a dream, and a few dashes of the styles of takashi miike and chan - wook park. yet, the film you’re imagining right now is probably wildly different than the world of kanako .
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one of the girls on the photos turns out to be the daughter of kanako' s teacher. so as akikazu confronts her we learn that the teacher tried to stop kanako from drugging / pimping her daughter. as kanako refuses, she stabs her to death with a screwdriver. akikazu forces her to show him where she hid the body but they never find it .
in confessions (2010) and the world of kanako (opens november 6), you show us parents who fail to realise that their children have been doing something very wrong. why are you drawn to this topic ?
this year’s gala exhibition was particularly moving as a guest figure skater joined the performing skaters during the exhibition. japan times reports that japanese figure skater kanako murakami appeared at the world team trophy 2017 gala and performed for the last time, after announcing her retirement during the closing ceremony .
the gala exhibition at the world team trophy 2017 looked like one of the happiest and equally heartwarming competitions of the year so far. closing the gala was renowned figure skater yuzuru hanyu, who shouted at the top of his lungs, “san, ni, ichi… arigatou gosaimashita! ” this translates to “3, 2, 1… thank you very much! ”
a father’s search for his missing daughter takes the “little girl lost” scenario to gruesome extremes in “the world of kanako, ” a relentlessly unpleasant and ultimately banal journey into a broken family’s heart of darkness. writer - director tetsuya nakashima explored many of these same themes in “confessions, ” japan’s official 2011 submission for the foreign - language film oscar, [ … ]
every character in the world of kanako is on some sort of drug, prescription or otherwise, which might represent the economic and cultural malaise underlying contemporary japanese society. or it might just be another meaningless stylistic gesture on the part of the filmmakers. the answer to this question might reside in the character of the snickering, lollipop - sucking detective asai (satoshi tsumabuki), who simply giggles at all of the mutilated bodies and despair he encounters throughout the film, especially akikazu’s. asai’s mindless schadenfreude perfectly embodies the cartoonish violence, brain - dead misanthropy, and cheap emotional manipulation that underlies the film’s vicious and ultimately pointless attack on the viewer’s psyche .
the world of kanako is guaranteed to reach these heights of insanity, and even has an enticing plot to boot. it delves into the mysteriously maniacal underbelly of japan, and the style draws from an insane variety of films - from oldboy and i saw the devil to the wacky styles of quentin tarantino and yes, sion sono. it' s a formula that might seem unoriginal at first, but really works perfectly well with the story and its pace. a few times, a much - needed injection of adrenaline is put into the story, picking up the more expositional parts and running away at…
a mentally unstable alcoholic and former cop, akikazu fujishima (kôji yakusho), is thrown back into a the role of detective when a brutal murder brings him into collision with former coworkers. in the midst of this, fujishima is contacted by his ex - wife, distraught about the disappearance of their daughter, kanako (nana komatsu). as fujishima searches for the truth of kanako’s disappearance, the narrative twists and turns endlessly, revealing connections and intricate stories beneath the surface of the main narrative .
now to the rest of the movie: he gets caught by matsnunaga and his guys but they are also hunted by the yakuza since kanako talked matsunaga into blackmailing the old perverts who were customers in the child - prostitution ring .
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the world of kanako could very well serve as a cautionary tale for parents worldwide. in fact, i' d go so far as to say that it' s must - see for anyone with children, whatever their age. that' s not a joke and it' s not an exaggeration: i' ve seen this kind of thing happen in the real world, and it' s not pretty - nor should it be; it should be just what it is here - in your face and down and dirty. too often people (especially here in these delusional united $ tate $) sugar - coat life and pretend all' s right with the world. well, it ain' t, and the world of kanako is closer to reality than anything you' re likely to see at your neighborhood multiplex .
- just when i thought it was was safe to go back into the classroom again confessions director tetsuya nakashima returns with an even more soul destroying dose of cinematic brutality. the world of kanako continues on the same nihilistic downward spiral into darkness as confessions... just louder and faster. it really is time to think about home schooling ...
the world of kanako has every chance to go off the rails, but it doesn’t. it’s solid and it’s experimental and dark as hell. despite a wealth of' 70s exploitation influences that are made extremely apparent in the film’s campy opening and fight scenes, you never get the sense that you’re watching an exploitation film. it’s much more apt to approach kanako as an arthouse film, because hidden beneath a veneer of soulless violence is a film that challenges viewers with unique storytelling and a visual playfulness .
from the beginning, “the world of kanako” is designed in a way to be unsettling. the opening scenes with close - ups of sweaty faces spurting lines like “ i love you ” and “ i’ll kill you, ” set the dual themes of the piece—love and violence—but they do so in a way that’s discomforting. there’s a sense of displacement and confusion, especially for the first act, that’s not unlike a late night in a club. you barely hear snippets of conversation over the loud music, and fujishima and editor yoshiyuki koike don’t hold a shot for more than a few seconds. even scenes of dialogue between two relatively normal characters—like when fujishima is talking to kanako’s classmates or her doctor—are cut together from several angles .
akikazu notices a picture of akiko, the teacher’s daughter. he goes and confronts the teacher about this. she confesses that she has killed kanako and has buried her someplace. akikazu is crazed with rage by now. he wants kanako alive so he can kill her for the trouble she has gone around causing. he forces to get the teacher to dig kanako up but she has no memory of where she has buried her. the movie ends .
the hit director of confessions, memories of matsuko and kamikaze girls is currently in post - production for the film produced by gaga and licri .
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 ?
next akikazu goes to kanako' s psychiatrist but gets no information, again .
i' ll always be in awe of tetsuya nakashima' s batshit skittles aesthetic, but i miss the more uplifting weirdness of kamikaze girls or paco and the magical book. regardless of intent, this waded farther into the depths of human cruelty than i could stand .
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? written by busan international film festival
perhaps one of the most nauseating films i have laid my eyes on ,
world of kanako
is certainly not for everyone. the japanese psyche is an enigmatic one for outsiders like me, as the country seems to be an epitome of an outside appearance of civility combined with an internal repression of schizophrenic darkness. i can' t imagine a movie like this playing in neighborhood movie theaters in america, but then again, most of those movies are vanilla time - fillers anyway .
world. .
is an extremely unpleasant movie and will leave a bad taste in your mouth, kind of like what tarantino would make if he was high on crack and decided
the hell with you .
one thing i will say is that this movie is
memorable .
kanako murakami’s retirement during the world team trophy gala did not come as a surprise to many figure skating fans as she has been hinting about this retirement ever since the 2014 sochi olympics. back in 2012, at the golden skate forums, one member posts a quote from murakami talking about her future in the sport .
kanako is the devil. and her world makes one filthy, hard - boiled, ruthless, garbage stench of a film, reeks of depraved violence, senseless abuse all presented in frantic, drug - induced editing. intervals between hysterical shouting and bloodshed are non - existent, it' s deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole we go. no escape, just craziness piled on top of craziness - - - in short, one fucking hell of a ride .
from the very first utterances in the film — “i love you” and “i’ll kill you” — “the world of kanako” expresses the duality of love and hate that akikazu possesses for his daughter, but it doesn’t shift tones as readily as it migrates timelines. though yakusho delivers a fine and unexpectedly physical performance, following his character through one abusive encounter after another becomes a grueling ordeal, especially when it’s fattened to two full hours. as the search for kanako turns his gaze ever - inward, the audience winds up understanding him a lot faster than he understands himself .
he also kills the girl with the short, grey hair. iirc at the murder scene akikazu finds a key to a locker in which are the photos of the girls with their customers .
after saving so many lives on the day of the tsunami and being swept up by the waters herself... . she still lives in the small space of refugee housing they call' kasetsu' (temporary shelter housing). for me they remind me of the internment camps that japanese canadians lived in during the war .
next he goes to a restaurant to meet kanako' s old middle school classmates where he finds out kanako had contacts with a drug - provider. (this scene is confusing because akikazu himself points to a picture of a drug - provider name matsunaga as if he already knows matsunaga has ties to kanako) .
silly though the action becomes, nakashima produces quick, kaleidoscopic cuts that not only impress with their coolness (insert music video comparisons here), but say something about the quicksilver nature of kanako in particular and the dionysian spirit in general, with its unsettling shifts from the angelic to the demonic, from the wildly celebratory to the unconscionably cruel .
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cut to the flaps of a hummingbird’s wings, “the world of kanako” doubles back to at least four different timelines, but the gist of it is reasonably straightforward. yakusho stars as akikazu fujishima, a disgraced ex - detective who loses a second job as a lowly convenience - store security guard following a triple murder. his situation gets markedly worse when his ex - wife, kiriko (asuka kurosawa), reports that their teenage daughter, kanako (nana komatsu), has been missing for the better part of a week. largely an absentee father, akikazu gets to know his daughter through the investigation, which reveals enough wrongdoing to get her grounded for several lifetimes .
thankfully, there’s not much else that didn’t work in the film. the acting, especially from yakusho, manages to be wild, emotional and somehow grounded. there’s a real vulnerability and sadness to yakusho’s performance, and despite the tone of the film, none of the acting ever feels broad in any way. rather, it’s realistic, if a bit intense. kanako herself plays a sociopathic teen in a way that’s a bit over - the - top, but for most of the film, the acting helps to ground us amongst the intensity of everything else .
the great yakusho (“ 13 assassins ”) plays akikazu fujishima, a retired cop who seems to live for nothing. not long ago, he caught his wife having an affair and plowed into their car before pulling the man from the vehicle and beating him. he hasn’t seen his daughter kanako (nana komatsu) in a long time, pops pills and has taken to vomiting in rainy alleys. when he learns that kanako is missing, he is given new purpose, although his misanthropy makes him something of a loose cannon. as he descends to a world of drugs and prostitution to try and find kanako, nakashima flashes back and forth chronologically to tie the two timelines together and reveal what happened to kanako .
whether or not one will enjoy the world of kanako depends most importantly on their level of tolerance for and ability to enjoy extreme violence and nihilism in a story. still, even if one doesn’t enjoy the film, its construction deserves praise. nakashima has an arthouse sensibility in the way he experiments with editing, and his postmodernist approach blends genres, narrators, and disjointed stories into a story that ends up feeling very cohesive. not only that, this approach has the dual function of reflecting its characters .
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in comes the narrator. he is a boy who is a weakling and is constantly bullied at school by a small gang of bullies. kanako meets him. he falls in love with her at first sight. she shows interest in him too. kanako spends some time with him and he takes this to be a sign of love. he understands that kanako once had a boyfriend called ogata who eventually committed suicide. he mentions to kanako that he wants to disappear with her someplace else. kanako asks if he too wants to be like ogata and get to know her more. little does the narrator know what he’s getting into .
akikazu talks to two of of kanako’s classmates emi morishita and tomoko nagano. they don’t give him much information. akikazu smells a rat and later assaults emi morishita to get information. emi escapes but tells akikazu that kanako is the devil and got nagano into the prostitution ring. later, nagano tries to go to the cops about the prostitution ring but there are senior cops involved in this. the department orders a detective by the name aikawa to kill nagano and she is killed .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
kanako did make it to the 2014 sochi olympics. however, she failed to make it to the podium. her last medal was a bronze at the grand prix cup of china season 2014 - 15 while her last gold was at the four continents season 2013 - 14 .
she gets the narrator to come to a party where he gets drunk and is eventually caught and handed to the prostitution ring. he gets physically abused. kanako has lived up to her word of making the narrator “become” like ogata. furthermore, he is caught and beaten up and thrown into a river. the narrator is now pissed and wants vengeance so he follows a girl from the gang that throws him into the river. he tortures her to get kanako’s location and goes after her. on meeting kanako he is unable to kill her as he is still in love with her. the narrator gets killed by a person in the shadows. this was always kanako’s plan. the killer is most likely matsunaga .
akikazu opens the locker to find photo evidence that kanako has been collecting. in the photo akikazu identifies the senior cop that is involved in this. in the photos there is kanako too. akikazu assaults the senior cop into giving up more information on the prostitution ring and learns more on how his daughter has become evil and has been helping old men get to young school girls .
the exhibition will feature six of japan’s up - and - coming photographers selected by ima magazine. three photographers, kanako azuma who applies her unique view of the world to her moving images to tell stories, fumi ishino who focuses on life within contemporary society with humor and a global perspective, and naohiro utagawa who creates still life infused with elements of improvisation, will show new works created especially for this exhibition using panasonic lumix dmc - gx8 cameras. other photographers, including hideyuki ishibashi, harumi shimizu and yutaka komase, will take your mind beyond the two dimensional representation. this is an exhibition you will surely enjoy the wealth of young artistic talent which invites us into a bold new world, with each photographer’s work showing their individual approach to their subjects .
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unfortunately, where kanako falters is perhaps in its’ convoluted plot. it’s surprisingly not too difficult to follow, but has a definite tendency towards the tangential and lingering scene. it doesn’t detract excessively from the impact of the film. but at two hours, the film has trouble sustaining its’ breakneck pace near the end .
i wouldn' t judge my viewers by their age. by regulation, the world of kanako is only for people aged 15 or above in japan, so my audiences have sort of selected themselves. [ in hong kong, it is classified category iii, for people aged 18 or above. ] personally, i don' t think children should be prohibited from watching my movie. i trust my audiences to make their own judgments about the story. i don' t think we should show children only the positive side of things and conceal the negative side from them. after all, the subjects of my movies do exist in reality .
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so from my understanding akikazu was able to connect the dots by sheer memory alone. he was able to match the matsunaga' s high school picture with the picture shown by the lollipop cop in the beginning of the film. even though matsunaga looks completely different !
starring aya ueto (oshin, thermae romae) and kengo kora (a story of yonosuke, snakes and earrings), the film tells a story of a family who endures eras of turmoil together through their cooking .
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but when kanako deigns to befriend the boy, he can’t help being grateful — and more. “i almost feel like a human being because you are here, ” he says in a voice - over. perhaps kanako, appearances to the contrary, is human as well .
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akikazu gets abducted by the yakuza who are looking for kanako as she and matsunaga have been causing a lot of grief thanks to the blackmailing. they show matsunaga who is kept in a body bag, sliced up and alive. on realizing that akikazu wants kanako dead too, the yakuza give him the name of the person who kills nagano - detective aikawa. akikazu busts into aikawa’s home and physically abuses his wife and calls him for a meeting. the two of them meet. it turns into a bloodbath. it becomes a massive confusion with detective asai showing up too. akikazu leaves them wounded and escapes .
this frantic, fractured movie is unpleasant in a variety of ways, and is probably for fans of japanese cult movies only .
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then he goes to her old middle school teacher who tells him she knew kanako had ties to drugs but said nothing. at this point akikazu assumes that kanako went back to matsunaga and matsunaga knows where she is .
he recognises matsnuga in kanakos yearbook. the lollipop - cop showed him a photograph of matsunaga (now with piercings and dyed hair) at the beginning. he says something like
do you know one of these guys, they are involved in drugs
. so as akikazu sees matsunagas photo he thinks he is the one getting kanako on drugs .
kanako goes on to further get involved in the prostitution ring. she convinces other students from her school to get involved and make some money. kanako indulges with some old men too. she also collects multiple evidence against the prostitution ring. she joins hands with matsunaga in blackmailing the old perverts. the yakuza don’t like this. it is bad for their business .
since members of the police are among the customers, the lollipop - cop (can' t remember his name right now) got a professional killer to wipe out all the evidence and witnesses (he also killed the 3 people in beginning) .
a second thread concerns a skinny, bullied high school nerd (hiroya shimizu), who makes the mistake of falling for kanako. his own search for her eventually becomes a grisly rite of passage into bloodthirsty manhood. a sharp tool, a cheek and an ear lobe are involved .
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as former detective akikazu searches for his missing daughter, kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life .
at the film’s heart are questions of the strength of link between parent and child, but if their hearts are vaguely similar, their execution is anything but. where confessions plays out like a chilling arthouse horror, kanako seems to be a typical detective - searches - for - child film at first, before devolving into an insane mix of exploitation, high school drama, gang film, and procedural .
the film is a non - linear story told about an estranged father searching for his missing daughter - kanako. the more he searches, the more he discovers about her. it’s quite a twisted tale and is a good watch .
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lest you think “the world of kanako” is a playful homage or a stylish ride, be warned. this is a movie with enough gore, rape, murder, drug use and horrible behavior to make takashi miike blink. it is not an easy watch. and it does feel sometimes like excess for the sake of excess. but then star koji yakusho will do something unexpected emotionally or nakashima and cinematographer shôichi atô will find a striking image and the movie will win you back. like the characters who are constantly either in love or murderous rage, nakashima pushes and pulls at his own audience .
the yakuza did not want this because they realized it would be a threat to their business. so akiakzu gets in the crossfire of that conflict .
wait a minute... wait, you' re telling me akikazu raped kanako? wow. i mean, i knew the father almost strangled kanako to death but he actually raped her too? oh my god. i need to watch this movie again, christ .
the start of the movie shows akikazu, retired police lieutenant, searching for his daughter. the case is also being handled by a detective detective asai - the smug guy with a lollipop. he has his own vested interest in this prostitution ring and wants to keep it under the covers. while he doesn’t stop akikazu from looking for kanako, he doesn’t help in any which way .
the rape of kanako through her father is shown very quickly (one or two shots only, iirc) and you might take it as a confusion or halluzination of akikazu (he is quite beat up in that sequence). but in the novel it is clearly stated that it happened. there it is the main reason for kankaos downfall, where in the movie there is more room for interpretation. like kanako trying to seduce her father, showing her total loss of normality. she comes across like pure evil in the movie. although the movie is very violent and feels like a punch in the guts, i really enjoyed it. one hell of a ride and a real tour de force by the leading role. it has some very dark humour, too. like the killer living a happy family live, the one akikazu always dreamt about but never had. the corny 70s music and akikazus fights with police. the more he is trying to fix everything up, the more he destroys it. after all, he has serious psychological issues (you see his medication at the beginning) and finds out that he might have caused all that suffering by himself (abusing kanako) .
kanako is a girl who grows up in a broken family. her father, akikazu fujishima, is an alcoholic and is a terrible father. the mother, kiriko fujishima, is no good either. she’s shown to be an absent mother. a specific moment is shown to turn kanako to the evil side. akikazu is an abusive father and busts into her room drunk and assaults her. this turns to a vague sexual retort from kanako. perhaps this is not the first time, perhaps he has abused her before and kanako has just learn to live with this by reacting the way she does. obviously, kanako grows up to become a crazy young girl. she grows up to be someone who draws on weaknesses of people and uses that to ruin their lives. yeah, she’s an evil bitch, like that .
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i think i would' ve liked reading the source material for this movie. seems like a good read. the actual movie on the other hand, it was a bit of a hit and a miss for me. i liked the colors, the great acting, and the fact that kanako' s dark secret wasn' t something i saw coming. however, i felt like it started out great and then kind of dragged on a little bit on the second half just to end as a totally confused mess. too many characters and too many sub - plots all of a sudden. i think with a little bit of editing and focusing more on some of the characters (like the bullied boys who were in love with kanako, or the thug girl) the movie would' ve been a bit more interesting. if you want to watch something violent and gory, with a decent story and a dark twist i would recommend it. it' s pretty unique. i wouldn' t buy it, but it was entertaining, a decent watch .
in that pic a middle school teacher (takako matsu) takes slow - burning revenge against two students she believes killed her toddler daughter. the pic earned $ 38 million in japan, making it the 7th highest - earning local film for the year, and it topped the box office in other parts of asia. “the human feelings of love and hate are not always so far apart, ” nakashima explains. “’kanako’ is a film i felt that i had to make. ”
all the actors did their job. they were amazing, but the story was... bleh. it started off strong and kept you interested, but as mayhem broke loose at every corner, i started to become impatient with the story. the constant drama actually got me bored to where it felt like an eternity before we' ll ever learn about kanako' s whereabouts, like i looked forward to seeing the end credits more than kanako' s reunion with her father. as for the violence, it was just too much to the point where i actually don' t even cringe anymore when it happens. all the characters were hopeless, like there' s not even one character that' s likable. if anything, all the characters were plain ridiculous. some of the dialogues for these characters made me frustrated. it' s the kind where they beat around the bush instead of saying it out and clearly. like i literally got confuse at some parts and had a hard time differentiating on what was real or imaginary. the constant switching between past and present starts to get out of control. even after this movie, i was left with more questions than answers. i think what really made me disappointed with this movie is the lack of explanation and closure for some of the issues and characters (* coughs * the cops * coughs *). then again, my disappointment may be due to the high expectations i had because of tetsuya' s other works (confessions, memories of matsuko, and kamikaze girls). with the genre of this movie being tetsuya' s style, i thought he was going to deliver, but i was wrong. 6 / 10 for the story, but the real highlight of this movie is the editing and acting .
a scene in a drug - fueled party attended by kanako plays with youth culture through a liberal use of emojis in the frame, showing that nakashima is very deliberate in his staging and style, while at the same time unafraid to take risks in order to convey characters in unusual ways. we get a sense of kanako not only through what other characters say about her, but also through the way she is shot. nakashima sees visuals as not just an opportunity to reveal emotion, but to reveal character, as well .
- kôji yakusho plays scumbag, alcoholic ex - cop akikazu who is tasked with searching for his missing daughter kanako. what follows is an investigation of sorts. but only if your idea of an investigation resembles a drunken bender involving murder, rape, car crashes and numerous beatings... both delivered and received. while akikazu embarks on his wayward odyssey into depravity, kanako' s school yard exploits are…
alright, that i did not know at all. but why didn' t the professional killer take the key with him? iirc the grey - haired girls friend told akikazu about the key so i guess the professional killer just thought the key was nothing ?
adapting akio fukamachi’s novel “hateshinaki kawaki, ” nakashima gives himself the latitude to reach beyond akikazu’s perspective in learning new things about kanako — a curious choice for a film that’s much more about father than daughter. the film flashes back to three years earlier, when kanako’s relationship with a bullied teen showed a diabolical talent for seducing and manipulating the weak. it flashes back to the incident on christmas eve that cost akikazu his detective job and his marriage simultaneously. and as akikazu questions the kids in kanako’s inner circle, like the vulnerable nami (fumi nikaido) or drug - pushing yakuza wannabe morishita (ai hashimoto), it flashes back to relationships where his daughter wasn’t always playing the victim .
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a relentlessly unpleasant and ultimately banal journey into a broken family’s heart of darkness .
okay, i always suspected that professional killer to be the one behind the three primary killings. the lollipop cop also killed the professional killer later in the movie which i assume was to get rid of any loose strings. what made it extra confusing is the fact that the professional killer had a freaking family! ? like, that' s not how i picture a sociopathic murderer for hire .
and it' s been the ruin of many a poor girl, and god i know i' m one .
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the world of kanako ( 渇き 。 kawaki , lit . " thirst . " ) is a 2014 japanese suspense film directed by tetsuya nakashima , starring kōji yakusho and nana komatsu . it was released on 4 july 2014 . 
the world of kanako (渇き 。 kawaki, lit. " thirst. ") is a 2014 japanese suspense film directed by tetsuya nakashima, starring kōji yakusho and nana komatsu. it was released on 4 july 2014.
the world of kanako (渇き 。 kawaki, lit. " thirst. ") is a 2014 japanese suspense film directed by tetsuya nakashima, starring kōji yakusho and nana komatsu. it was released on 4 july 2014.