The World of Kanako
Jul 04, 2014 | IMDB 6.4
118 min Watch NowMystery, Crime, Thriller
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
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