Viewers Call The #1 Documentary On Netflix A “Harrowing” Experience

Sharai Bohannon |

Jul 27, 2023

This gripping and tragic documentary hit Netflix yesterday and has the internet losing sleep. Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case is the #1 documentary on the charts today. Here’s everything we know about this terrifying tale.

Netflix Official Synopsis

“When 21-year-old British Air hostess Lucie Blackman leaves her life in London to move to Tokyo for an adventurous year of exploration – her parents and friends never imagine that just three weeks later, she will vanish without a trace. What follows is an intricate international investigation to find Lucie – led by a team of tenacious Japanese detectives. This gripping true crime feature is told both through the fascinating inside track of the investigation – as well as the emotional lens of Lucie’s father who never gives up on finding his daughter alive. Their journey against the clock takes them through the seedy heart of Tokyo’s dark underbelly and ultimately to the tragic truth about her brutal murder at the hands of one of the country’s most reprehensible sexual predators.”

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Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case was directed by Hyoe Yamamoto. It was written by Shoji Takao. The original title is Keishichô sôsaikka rûshî burakku man jiken.

Fans are reliving the terrifying time on Twitter. Many cannot help but compare the Netflix documentary to the book People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry.

See what Twitter is saying

https://twitter.com/WatchLilyTweet/status/1684408362396446720?s=20

The first case I covered was the Lucie Blackman murder, a young British woman who went missing from the streets of Tokyo while working at a hostess club, one I lived down the street from.

Watch this new documentary on Netflix – Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case! pic.twitter.com/omzWp75Edr
— Nikki Young, Serial Napper True Crime Podcast (@serial_napper) July 26, 2023

a new netflix documentary explores the case of lucie blackman, a missing british woman who exposed tokyo's seedy underbelly (and one of its most notorious serial rapists) https://t.co/Kb2Yf5S8P8
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) July 25, 2023

A powerful documentary about #LucieBlackman who vanished in Japan on July 1 2000
The focus is on the rebel cops who nailed the criminal
People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Parry examines the many missteps that let her killer escape in 1992 to kill again https://t.co/LyjOjc3iyr
— Jake Adelstein/中本哲史 (@jakeadelstein) July 27, 2023

when you decide to put on a new true crime documentary knowing you’ll finish the entire thing instead of going to sleep

*this one’s actually goodhttps://t.co/oIvTHz9qO6
— Stephanie Varela (@stefbianxxvi) July 27, 2023

Netflix true-crime documentary 'Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case' tells the harrowing story of a British traveler who went missing in Tokyo. That was just the tip of the iceberg. https://t.co/lrRzl9DbTn
— Jerry Swon NJ (@jerryeswon) July 26, 2023

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The murder, and subsequent trial, shocked the world. Throughout the lengthy trial, it came out that Lucie’s assailant had a long history of assault and murder. Previous survivors had reported him to authorities but were ignored.

Watch the trailer

Have you watched this unsettling documentary on Netflix? Then let me know what you thought of Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case at @misssharai.

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