The World of Kanako
– Showa Fujishima is a former detective. One day, his daughter Kanako, who is a model student, disappe..
Showa Fujishima is a former detective. One day, his daughter Kanako, who is a model student, disappears. To find his daughter, he investigates more carefully into his daughter's life. He quickly realizes that his daughter is no saint, but there is nowhere he won't go to find her.
04 Dec 2015
Japanese
Tetsuya Nakashima
Akio Fukamachi (based on the novel by), Tetsuya Nakashima (screenplay), Miako Tadano (screenplay), Nobuhiro Monma (screenplay)
Kôji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroya Shimizu
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?
3 wins & 1 nomination.