Movies: Manabu Adachi

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Akira Mochizuki survived a kidnapping as a child. Now, she's a detective, and there are signs that the kidnapper may be back again after 20 years....

The film is brilliantly directed with a high level of tension, as if it were a gag comic straight out of a live-action comic book. The ideas are seemingly cheap, but with a speedy sharpness and sense of style, they are even gorgeous. What makes the m...