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Confessions In Tetsuya Nakashima's Novel Hateshinaki Kawaki?

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Tetsuya Nakashima, one of the greatest contemporary Japanese filmmakers takes up, once more, the subject of bullying in the school environment, although in much different fashion than "Confessions," adapting Akio Fukamatsi 's novel, " Hateshinaki Kawaki (Kawaki is the original title of the film).
When gorgeous and excellent student Kanako disappears, her mother, Kiriko, asks her ex-husband, Akikazu, to locate her. However, things take a turn for the worse since Akikazu is an ex-cop, who has actually been an irresponsible delinquent all of his life, is now determined to search relentlessly for his daughter. And the word relentlessly, to Akikazu, means that he is willing to act violently towards her classmates, her psychiatrist and the professor in charge of her classroom, all of which are women. During his, filled with alcohol and psychiatric pills, research, he discovers that his daughter has nothing to do with the angelic creature he and her mother thought her to be. To the contrary, Kanako uses and deals drugs, seems to have connections with the Yakuza and on an incident that occurred three years ago, she took advantage of a boy who was a constant victim of bullying and in love with her, with tragic consequences for him. Among this chaos, an ex-colleague of his, detective Asai, a truly infuriating character constantly having a lollipop in his mouth, investigates his connection with a triple homicide that took place a little before the dissapearance.
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