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In a film by Tetsuya Nakashima (Confessions, Kamikaze Girls, Memories of Matsuko) and starring Koji Yakusho (Memoirs of a Geisha, Babel), Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Sumabuki (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift), Joe Odagiri (Sway) and Miki Nakatani (Ringu), The World of Kanako is released on DVD by Metrodome on 31st October 2016.

When beautiful straight-A high school student Kanako goes missing, her mother asks ex husband Fujishima - a drifting, irresponsible former cop - to find their daughter. He embarks on a desperate search in the hope of reuniting his 'perfect family' - by any means necessary. But as his investigation progresses, Fujishima starts to discover the darkness that lies behind his daughter's impeccable facade.

Clue by clue, revelation by revelation, he starts his descent into the hellish underworld of Kanako's secret life... Tetsuya Nakashima follows his internationally-lauded box office hit Confessions (multiple Japan Academy Prize winner 2011; Best Asian Film, Hong Kong Film Awards 2011) with an intense, shocking, psychedelic journey into the world of city youngsters.