A Girl Missing (Yokogao) is an engrossing slow-burn drama from internationally acclaimed, award-winning director Kôji Fukada.
Friday, August 7, 2020: Chicago – The Facets Virtual Cinema will screen A Girl Missing (Yokogao) (2019), from August 7 to August 20. The film is presented in Japanese with English subtitles; was produced in Japan and France; and has a runtime of 111 minutes. Pre-orders are available now at www.facets.org/cinematheque/. 50% of all ticket purchases go to Facets in support of the organization during the closure.
In A Girl Missing, diligent home-care nurse Ichiko (Mariko Tsutsui) is a fixture of her client’s family life: nursing the ailing bedridden grandmother while also warmly supporting her two granddaughters. After a seemingly normal day, the family’s youngest granddaughter, Saki, fails to return home and vanishes without a trace. After that, family life is never quite the same, and struggling with the anguish of her disappearance, Ichiko is further devastated when the media reports the identity of the suspect as her own nephew. Her impulse to honestly admit the connection is quickly muted by the victim’s older sister, who insists Ichiko’s importance to the family, requires her to keep quiet. Ichiko attempts to maintain her respectable identity while her world steadily begins to crumble.
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning duo of director Kôji Fukada and actress Mariko Tsutsui return after their Cannes’ Prix du Jury, Un Certain Regard-winning Harmonium (Facets, 2017) in this captivating slow-burn drama. Praised by Screen International as “deft and absorbing” and Cinema Scope as “mad by wildly engrossing”,
A Girl Missing features a mesmerizing performance by Tsutsui and brilliantly delves into the fragility of reputation, identity, and control in our social existence.
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