Adapted from the ongoing manga novel series published in 2020 written by Akio Fukamachi and illustrated by Iizuka Keita, this live-action version stars former member of the Japanese boy band,V6, Junichi Okada. Known for his support acting role as Omura in “The Last Samurai” (2003), Harada also directed Okada in two historical films “Sekigahara” (2017) and “Baragak: Broken Samurai” (2021). Furthermore, Okada was in “The Fable” (2019) and its sequel “The Fable: the Killer Who Doesn't Kill” (2021).
The plot of “Hell Dogs” centers around Goro Idejuki (Junichi Okada), a young rookie cop. Devastated and traumatized after the brutal killing of the supermarket girl he loves during a robbery, he turns rogue and with only vengeance planted on his mind, he seeks the murderers out one by one and kills them. A killing spree which took him over ten years to complete. After turning himself in to the police, Chief Anai of the Metropolitan Criminal...
The plot of “Hell Dogs” centers around Goro Idejuki (Junichi Okada), a young rookie cop. Devastated and traumatized after the brutal killing of the supermarket girl he loves during a robbery, he turns rogue and with only vengeance planted on his mind, he seeks the murderers out one by one and kills them. A killing spree which took him over ten years to complete. After turning himself in to the police, Chief Anai of the Metropolitan Criminal...
- 3/27/2023
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
Hell Dogs is a Japanese action movie adaptation of the 2017 manga novel of same title by Akio Fukamachi. The film is written and directed by Masato Harada, starring Junichi Okada, Kentaro Sakaguchi and Mayu Matsuoka.
Premise
The police officer Shogo Kanetaka, suffers from trauma when his loved one was murdered. All Shogo has on his his mind now is revenge. He then receives an order to go undercover as a yakuza member. The police instructs Shogo to pick a fight with yakuza member Hideki Murooka as a stepping stone to gain entrance into the organization. The police have data that shows Shogo is matched with Hideki 98. Meanwhile, Hideki is the son of a death-row convict. He has a physical condition, where is he always hungry and constantly eating. Also, neither her nor the yakuza can control his emotions.
Director
Masato Harada
Cast
Junichi Okada / Shogo Kanetaka
Kentaro Sakaguchi / Hideki Murooka...
Premise
The police officer Shogo Kanetaka, suffers from trauma when his loved one was murdered. All Shogo has on his his mind now is revenge. He then receives an order to go undercover as a yakuza member. The police instructs Shogo to pick a fight with yakuza member Hideki Murooka as a stepping stone to gain entrance into the organization. The police have data that shows Shogo is matched with Hideki 98. Meanwhile, Hideki is the son of a death-row convict. He has a physical condition, where is he always hungry and constantly eating. Also, neither her nor the yakuza can control his emotions.
Director
Masato Harada
Cast
Junichi Okada / Shogo Kanetaka
Kentaro Sakaguchi / Hideki Murooka...
- 12/20/2022
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
The World of Kanako
Written by Akio Fukamachi, Tetsuya Nakashima, Miako Tadano & Nobuhiro Monma
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
Japan, 2014
Tetsuya Nakashima’s The World of Kanako is a blood-soaked detective story about an unstable father’s quest to track down his missing daughter. While falling within the broad boundaries of a detective story, The World of Kanako plays out as an ultra-violent, psychotropic dive into the brittle mind of a damaged protagonist. While the squeamish will definitely want to sit this one out, those up for a hyper-kinetic, genre-bending revenge flick are in for a treat.
Akikazu Fujishima (Kôji Yakusho) is a flat out mess: he’s lost his job, lost his family, and self-medicates his mental illness with alcohol and drugs. Akikazu floats through his life without meaning until his ex-wife (Asuka Kurosawa) calls to inform him that his teenage daughter Kanako (Nana Komatsu) is missing. Whether fueled by...
Written by Akio Fukamachi, Tetsuya Nakashima, Miako Tadano & Nobuhiro Monma
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
Japan, 2014
Tetsuya Nakashima’s The World of Kanako is a blood-soaked detective story about an unstable father’s quest to track down his missing daughter. While falling within the broad boundaries of a detective story, The World of Kanako plays out as an ultra-violent, psychotropic dive into the brittle mind of a damaged protagonist. While the squeamish will definitely want to sit this one out, those up for a hyper-kinetic, genre-bending revenge flick are in for a treat.
Akikazu Fujishima (Kôji Yakusho) is a flat out mess: he’s lost his job, lost his family, and self-medicates his mental illness with alcohol and drugs. Akikazu floats through his life without meaning until his ex-wife (Asuka Kurosawa) calls to inform him that his teenage daughter Kanako (Nana Komatsu) is missing. Whether fueled by...
- 12/3/2015
- by Victor Stiff
- SoundOnSight
While the Alamo Drafthouse has become a familiar name to film fans for their unique theatrical style as well as their amusing PSAs on not using cell phones during a movie, the chain has moved into film distribution over the past five years, working to bring films such as Mood Indigo, Four Lions, and The Congress to wider audiences. Their latest offering comes from Japan.
Titled The World of Kanako, the film is the newest feature from Kamikaze Girls filmmaker Tetsuya Nakashima, his first film since 2010. Along with directing, Nakashima co-wrote the screenplay with Miako Tadano and Nobuhiro Monma, with the trio adapting it from the novel by Akio Fukamachi. The film’s synopsis is as follows.
An uncompromising revenge thriller of operatic scope, The World of Kanako is a non-stop visual and emotional assault to the senses as it follows troubled ex-detective Akikazu (Kôji Yakusho, 13 Assassins, Babel) on the...
Titled The World of Kanako, the film is the newest feature from Kamikaze Girls filmmaker Tetsuya Nakashima, his first film since 2010. Along with directing, Nakashima co-wrote the screenplay with Miako Tadano and Nobuhiro Monma, with the trio adapting it from the novel by Akio Fukamachi. The film’s synopsis is as follows.
An uncompromising revenge thriller of operatic scope, The World of Kanako is a non-stop visual and emotional assault to the senses as it follows troubled ex-detective Akikazu (Kôji Yakusho, 13 Assassins, Babel) on the...
- 10/28/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Summer may be over, but with this year marking the 35th anniversary of Friday the 13th, it's never too late to visit the lake. Ahead of the event's November 4th start date, the folks behind the Denver Film Festival have announced the first wave of programming, including a special November 13th 35mm screening of Sean S. Cunningham's monumental slasher film.
Press Release: October 9, 2015 (Denver, Colo.) - The Denver Film Festival (Dff), produced by Denver Film Society (Dfs), announced its first wave of programming. Recognized as the Rocky Mountain Region's premier film event, the festival will feature a focus on Polish Cinema, sidebars for CinemaQ, CineLatino, Late Night and Women+Film, as well as robust Shorts Packages and Music Spotlight programming.
"In keeping with our long and rich tradition of presenting the best in Eastern European cinema, we at the Denver Film Festival are proud to announce that this year's...
Press Release: October 9, 2015 (Denver, Colo.) - The Denver Film Festival (Dff), produced by Denver Film Society (Dfs), announced its first wave of programming. Recognized as the Rocky Mountain Region's premier film event, the festival will feature a focus on Polish Cinema, sidebars for CinemaQ, CineLatino, Late Night and Women+Film, as well as robust Shorts Packages and Music Spotlight programming.
"In keeping with our long and rich tradition of presenting the best in Eastern European cinema, we at the Denver Film Festival are proud to announce that this year's...
- 10/14/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Drafthouse Films has acquired Tetsuya Nakasima’s ultra-violent Japanese thriller The World Of Kanako. The film, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, will get a platform and digital release later in 2015. Based on the novel by Akio Fukamachi, the film centers on an ex-detective (Kôji Yakusho) searching for his missing daughter only to discover her shockingly secret life. The movie was a hit in Japan when it was released in June with an R-15 rating, which…...
- 4/2/2015
- Deadline
Read More: Watch: Nothing Can Stop Jean Dujardin in 'The Connection' Trailer Described as an "ultra-violent thriller," "The World Of Kanako" is headed to North America. Drafthouse Films has acquired the distribution rights to the film, fully expecting a controversy. Said Drafthouse COO James Emanuel Shapiro, "This movie is an all out depraved and constant assault on your morality and your senses and I loved every second of it." "Kanako" is based on a 2005 novel by Akio Fukamachi that was considered unfilmable due to its bloody narrative. The story centers on a former detective as he follows his missing daughter down a trail of sex, drugs and rock and roll violence. Director Tetsuya Nakashima previously helmed "Kamikaze Girls" and "Confessions." The film will screen in select theaters across North America and will be released on a variety of VOD platforms and digital, DVD and Blu-ray formats. Read...
- 4/2/2015
- by Elizabeth Logan
- Indiewire
★★☆☆☆Tetsuya Nakashima's icy drama Confessions (2010) took the hyper-stylised aesthetics of his early work Kamikaze Girls (2004) and Memories of Matsuko (2006) and refined their energy and exuberance into a tightly wound revenge drama. His latest, The World of Kanako (2014), releases the clutch, utilising a repulsive former detective as its protagonists in an attempt to dissect the generational disconnect in contemporary Japan whilst painting a rancid portrait of youth culture. Based on the novel Kawaki by Akio Fukamachi, The World of Kanako amplifies the pulpy sensibilities of this atypical revenge drama with an abundance of the erratic cuts, violence and flamboyant visuals that have characterised Nakashima's work.
- 10/14/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The World of Kanako is a relentlessly violent, elliptical and at times cartoonish detective story which revolves around one of the most deplorable protagonists in recent memory in the form of Akikazu Fujishima, a schizophrenic, alcoholic ex-policeman without a redeemable bone in his entire body. He is a vengeful force of indiscriminate violence who takes about as much as he dishes out as he barrels like a freight train through the lives of everyone he comes into contact with.
After attacking his wife Kiriko and her lover on Christmas Eve, Fujishima is diagnosed a schizophrenic, loses his job and becomes a security guard who unwisely mixes his meds with a lot of alcohol. He climbs out of the gutter eight months later to investigate the disappearance of his teenage daughter Kanako. The chance to become a detective once more gives Fujishima a new lease on life, but his rampant alcoholism...
After attacking his wife Kiriko and her lover on Christmas Eve, Fujishima is diagnosed a schizophrenic, loses his job and becomes a security guard who unwisely mixes his meds with a lot of alcohol. He climbs out of the gutter eight months later to investigate the disappearance of his teenage daughter Kanako. The chance to become a detective once more gives Fujishima a new lease on life, but his rampant alcoholism...
- 10/13/2014
- by Liam Dunn
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Latest film from Tetsuya Nakashima is currently in post-production.
Japan’s Gaga Corporation is launching sales on the upcoming Tetsuya Nakashima film The World of Kanako [pictured] starring Koji Yakusho at the European Film Market.
The hit director of Confessions, Memories of Matsuko and Kamikaze Girls is currently in post-production for the film produced by Gaga and Licri.
Gaga is handling sales for Asian territories while Wild Bunch handles the rest. Gaga plans to release the film this summer in Japan.
Based on a mystery novel by Akio Fukamachi, The World of Kanako follows the search for a missing girl through the eyes of her crazed father who begins to realize through the traces she left how little he knew her and his family.
Debuting actress Nana Komatsu plays the missing daughter while Yakusho (13 Assassins) plays the brutal former police detective father. Satoshi Tsumabuki, Joe Odagiri and Miki Nakatani play supporting roles.
Gaga is also...
Japan’s Gaga Corporation is launching sales on the upcoming Tetsuya Nakashima film The World of Kanako [pictured] starring Koji Yakusho at the European Film Market.
The hit director of Confessions, Memories of Matsuko and Kamikaze Girls is currently in post-production for the film produced by Gaga and Licri.
Gaga is handling sales for Asian territories while Wild Bunch handles the rest. Gaga plans to release the film this summer in Japan.
Based on a mystery novel by Akio Fukamachi, The World of Kanako follows the search for a missing girl through the eyes of her crazed father who begins to realize through the traces she left how little he knew her and his family.
Debuting actress Nana Komatsu plays the missing daughter while Yakusho (13 Assassins) plays the brutal former police detective father. Satoshi Tsumabuki, Joe Odagiri and Miki Nakatani play supporting roles.
Gaga is also...
- 2/6/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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