Anti-hero is too light a word for the lead of The World of Kanako. A hard-drinking, tortured, virulent ex-cop thrown into an underworld of sociopathy and systematic abuse in order to find his daughter, he evokes a long line of lead archetypes in detective stories. Director Tetsuya Nakashima’s style and narrative flourishes may draw comparisons to countrymen like Johnnie To and Sion Sono, or the South Korean revenge thriller boom anchored by directors like Kim Ji-Woon and Park Chan-Wook, but The World of Kanako differs in one singular way. Akikazu Fujishima (a completely unhinged Kôji Yakusho) hasn’t sold his soul to the devil for revenge. He never had one in the first place.
Presented in a jumbled chronological style reminiscent of Memento, and filled with hallucinogenic episodes into both the mind of the lead, and animated tangents giving context into the life of one child who is transformed...
Presented in a jumbled chronological style reminiscent of Memento, and filled with hallucinogenic episodes into both the mind of the lead, and animated tangents giving context into the life of one child who is transformed...
- 12/5/2015
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
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