“Wildly engrossing”
— Elena Lazic, Cinema Scope
“Deft and absorbing.”
— Lisa Nesselson, Screen Daily
“There’s no denying the seductive powers of A GIRL MISSING.”
— Beatrice Loayza, AV Club
— Lisa Nesselson, Screen Daily
“There’s no denying the seductive powers of A GIRL MISSING.”
— Beatrice Loayza, AV Club
FOLLOWING HARMONIUM, HIS CANNES UN CERTAIN REGARD
JURY PRIZE WINNER, DIRECTOR KÔJI FUKADA RETURNS
WITH AN ABSORBING SLOW-BURN CRIME THRILLER
A GIRL MISSING
Street Date: November 17, 2020
DVD/Digital: $24.95
Nominated for a “Best Film” Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and an Official Selection at Toronto and the New York Film Festival,
the DVD Includes a “Making-Of” Featurette and the Bonus Short Film
“Love Comes Later”
SYNOPSIS
One of the finest Japanese directors to emerge in the last decade, Kôji Fukada has earned renown for crafting suspenseful dramas. Following 2016’s Harmonium, which captured Cannes’ prestigious Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, he returns with A GIRL MISSING, a tense portrait of a woman caught up in a spiral of defamation.
Ichiko (Mariko Tsutsui) is a private home nurse who has worked for the elderly matriarch of the Oisho family for years. Unexpectedly, her quiet, routine life is shattered after one of the Oisho’s teenage daughters is kidnapped. When it is revealed that the kidnapper is none other than Ichiko’s nephew, her life begins to unravel in this taut thriller from one of Japan’s cinematic masters.
Nominated for a “Best Film” Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and a “Best Feature” Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, A GIRL MISSING, which Lisa Nesselson of Screen Dailycalled “a satisfying slow-burn drama expertly told”, was an Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
BONUS FEATURES
- Making-of Featurette
- Bonus Short Film: Love Comes Later (Directed by Sonejuhi Sinha | United States, India
10 minutes) — An unexpected discovery forces an undocumented motel employee to make a life changing decision.
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD/Digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu)
Running Time: 111 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Widescreen
Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound/2.0 Stereo
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
About Film Movement
Founded in 2002, Film Movement is a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide including the Oscar-nominated films Theeb (2016) and Corpus Christi (2020). Film Movement’s theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, King Hu, Sergio Corbucci, Ettore Scola and Luchino Visconti. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com. Visit www.filmmovementplus.com for more information about Film Movement Plus, the new subscription streaming service from Film Movement.
