2011 · drama · psychological · mental-illness
Kotoko
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto1h 31m2011
When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.
Our read: Kotoko (2011) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · psychological · mental-illness entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / psychological, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- intimate
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