MISSING: Catch The Official U.S. Trailer For The Eerie Suspensful Crime Drama Starring Jiro Sato And Aoi Ito
An eerie shot of actor Jiro Sato’s wayward character motioning with a hammer is precisely just one in a series of moments that precede the grisly, chilling and dramatic unfolding of events in Shinzo Katayama’s first commercial release, Missing (click here for my Fantastic Fest review). The official U.S. trailer from Dark Star Pictures commences in the same fashion and as of Friday, you can view that trailer above with Sato toplining the new crime drama alongside Aoi Ito who plays his on-screen daughter, and Hiroya Shimizu as a menacing fugitive with a deadly, horrific secret.
Missing will open theatrically in New York (Film Noir, Brooklyn), Los Angeles (Laemmle Glendale), Cleveland (Gateway) and major cities on November 4, 2022, followed by a VOD/Cable release in the U.S. and Canada on November 18, 2022. Dark Star will also release the film on Blu-Ray beginning December 6.
Read on for the announcement, and also check out the subsequent poster beneath it!
Depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer “No Name” (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda (Aoi Ito) cannot take her aloof father serious. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts to fear the worst—and must begin looking for him.
After working as an assistant director for Japanese films, including Nobuhiro Yamashita’s works, filmmaker Shinzô Katayama crossed paths with Bong Joon-Ho while shooting “TOKYO!” (2008) and served as his assistant director on “Mother” (2009). In 2019, his debut feature, “Siblings of the Cape ” was selected by numerous domestic and international film festivals. He now is one of the most promising, emerging directors in Japan, and his second feature, MISSING (“Sagasu /さがす”) will be his commercial film debut.
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