The World of Kanako (2015)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Chan Wook Park 'Revenge Trilogy' meets Quentin T 'Jackie Brown' - 'Grindhouse' StyleFantastic follow-up to Tetsuya Nakashima's 'Confessions' ;; Bloody, stylish, beautiful, Insane .Kanako lives in a world fulled with drugs, gangs, prostitution, and loneliness . She has the ability to allure anyone she pleases into a melodic trance of excitement and bliss , and she slowly destroys them withinHer father , ex-detective and fulltime drunk , is summoned to find his missing daughter whom he hasn't seen for 3 years . The father, with buried secrets of his own past, secretly wants to kill his daughter himselfStory about an angelic demon - whom everyone knows is evil, yet everyone still falls for her lustful trap10/10

A jaded Japanese detective reevaluates his faded memories of his estranged teenage daughter when asked by his ex-wife to investigate her disappearance in this one-of-a-kind crime drama directed by Tetsuya Nakashima. The film is assembled with a very vibrant visual style that varies from rapid fire edits to bouts of animation to slow paced, leisurely shots that bask in the beauty of Christmas lights. The film also begins in a curious anti-narrative manner as the protagonist's memories are mixed with clips of his daughter partying and the police quizzing him. Narrative point-of-view is also broken for several flashbacks told from his daughter's boyfriend's perspective. Given the plot and stylistic touches, the film is perhaps best described as 'Kill Bill' meets 'The Third Man' and it gets points for originality alone. The dialogue is full of philosophical quips too about how some of us are not "cut out to be a human being" and how easy it is "to fall into a hole so deep" that you keep falling. Yet, for all its daringness and intelligence, the film does not entirely work. The actual solution to the girl's disappearance is mundane and the value of all the red herrings is debatable, especially the question mark placed over the true nature of his relationship to his daughter, but it does cause one to think. The ultimate messages at hand are relatively simple (not everyone is who you think they are; some vices in life are dangerous), however, the emotional roller-coaster is a hard experience to shake. This is an effective film in that it gets you in the protagonist's mind and forces you to question how you would react. The Harry Lime dynamic also works well with a protagonist as naïve as Holly Martins. This is not however the easiest film under the sun to endure.

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."

To summarize this movie in short: An insane father looks for his insane daughter who was killed by her middle school teacher after she lured the school teacher's daughter sold herself to old men. The teenage daughter, Kanako is a psycho ruin the people's life as her entertainment.That insane father tried very hard to find the daughter only because he wants to kill her with his own hands as he thinks the daughter looks down on him. The most ridiculous part is, he was injured by gun shots, knife wound, and be beaten hard, but he doesn't have to go hospital or take rest, he just recovers like a superman, only with lots of blood stain on his face and clothes.This movie includes a lot of violent scene and pornographic scene which includes couple rapes.The story structure is loose, and things happened in the movie doesn't make sense. Overall, I'll say, stay away from it, waste of time and totally disgusting.