L.A./Orange County Readers: Win Tickets to The World of Kanako Screening on December 4th
Drafthouse Films’ acclaimed new thriller The World of Kanako is opening in Orange County, CA, this weekend at Santa Ana’s Frida Cinema, and we have three pairs of tickets to give away. If you live in the area and “an expertly crafted, relentless sledgehammer to the senses” sounds up your alley, then read on for the details!
The screening is taking place Friday, December 4th, at 10:30 PM PT, and the Frida Cinema is located at 305 East Fourth Street in Santa Ana. To enter for your chance to win, just send an email to contests@dreadcentral.com including your FULL NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS with The World of Kanako – Orange County Screening in your subject line. We’ll take care of the rest. By entering this contest, you are consenting to allow Dread Central and its subsidiaries use of your email address.
This contest will end at 12:01 AM PT on December 3, 2015, and the winners will be notified soon thereafter. The winners will be able to pick up their tickets at the Frida box office Friday evening.
The World of Kanako will be released on December 4th in select theaters, as well as being available via multiple digital VOD platforms including Amazon Instant, iTunes, Vimeo, VHX, and more. A home video release on Blu-ray and DVD is slated for early 2016.
In The World of Kanako, based on a 2005 novel by Akio Fukamachi, broken ex-detective Akikazu (the prolific Kôji Yakusho; 13 Assassins, Babel, Shall We Dance?) searches for his missing teenage daughter (newcomer Nana Komatsu), only to discover that she may not be the person who he once thought she was.
Synopsis:
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 (Yakusho) on the hunt for his missing teenage daughter, Kanako. What he discovers in his search is an unsettling and harrowing web of depravity–surrounding both Kanako and himself. As Akikazu stumbles along a shocking trail of drugs, sex, and violence, he finds himself woefully unprepared for the revelations that affect all he holds dear.
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, The World of Kanako is an astonishing tour de force of mystery, beauty, and boundary-pushing violence. A wildly kinetic and startlingly venomous throwback to the best that Asian extreme cinema has to offer, The World of Kanako offers a trip right up to the edge of a man’s private hell––and over it.
