Enter The World of Kanako with a New Poster and Theatrical Trailer
Debi Moore
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We’ve been talking about Tetsuya Nakashima’s acclaimed thriller The World of Kanako, heading our way in December courtesy of Drafthouse Films, for a few weeks now; and today – just in time for Halloween – the film’s new artwork and theatrical trailer have arrived!
The World of Kanako will be released on December 4th in select theaters, as well as being available via multiple digital VOD platforms including Amazon Instant, iTunes, Vimeo, VHX, and more. A home video release on Blu-ray and DVD is slated for early 2016.
Based on a 2005 novel by Akio Fukamachi, often deemed unfilmable due to the lurid nature of the narrative, The World of Kanako is an expertly crafted, relentless sledgehammer to the senses.
In The World of Kanako, broken ex-detective Akikazu (the prolific Kôji Yakusho; 13 Assassins, Babel, Shall We Dance?) searches for his missing teenage daughter (newcomer Nana Komatsu), only to discover that she may not be the person who he once thought she was.
Synopsis:
An uncompromising revenge thriller of operatic scope, The World of Kanako is a non-stop visual and emotional assault to the senses as it follows troubled ex-detective Akikazu (Yakusho) on the hunt for his missing teenage daughter, Kanako. What he discovers in his search is an unsettling and harrowing web of depravity–surrounding both Kanako and himself. As Akikazu stumbles along a shocking trail of drugs, sex, and violence, he finds himself woefully unprepared for the revelations that affect all he holds dear.
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, The World of Kanako is an astonishing tour de force of mystery, beauty, and boundary-pushing violence. A wildly kinetic and startlingly venomous throwback to the best that Asian extreme cinema has to offer, The World of Kanako offers a trip right up to the edge of a man’s private hell––and over it.
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