A Girl Missing

DVD Features

Making-of Featurette

BONUS SHORT FILM
Love Comes Later
Directed by Sonejuhi Sinha
United States, India
English Language
10 minutes

An unexpected discovery forces an undocumented motel employee to make a life changing decision.

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "A deft and absorbing multi-pronged tale about a kind, hard-working woman whose life becomes a morass of collateral damage, A Girl Missing is a satisfying slow-burn drama expertly told."
  Lisa Nesselson, Screen Daily
• Highest Rating
  "Reuniting with his Harmonium (2016) lead Mariko Tsutsui, Fukada creates another emotionally palpable tale about perspective. Expertly acted and with a dual-pronged narrative as equally well choreographed...."
  Nicholas Bell, Ion Cinema
• Highest Rating
  "Much like his Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner, A Girl Missing unspools as a revenge drama homing in on people paying a price for their kindness, a tale of family disequilibrium with Mariko Tsutsui–already seen in Harmonium–serving as a magnetic lead."
  Leonardo Goi, The Film Stage
• Highest Rating
  "[Koji Fukada] gives his actors space to create wordless moments that speak eloquently."
  Mark Schilling, Japan Times
• Highest Rating
  "Fukada’s film is mad but wildly engrossing, imagining a cruel world where unrequited love plus time makes for a fatal sum."
  Elena Lazic, Cinema Scope
• Highest Rating
  "After his wonderful hits “Hospitalite” and “Harmonium”, Japanese award-winning filmmaker Kôji Fukada returns to the family-crisis field with this sensitive, perceptive, yet bizarre modern take on the power of defamatory words. [T]he film is a gripping, shocking dramatic thriller, a satisfying and unique observation on two dysfunctional families, with an unforgettable, controversial performance by Mariko Tsutsui."
  Roger Costa, Brazilian Press
• Highest Rating
  "One of the film’s many pleasures lies in Fukada’s specific rhythms of the mysteries of storytelling, offering little clues along the way but keeping more of a focus on his lead character and her emotional wavelength."
  Jordan Raup, The Film Stage
• Highest Rating
  "There’s no denying the seductive powers of A Girl Missing, which gestures at the rot beneath the surface of politesse in the way Japanese society deals with criminality and taboo. "
  Beatrice Loayza, AV Club
• Highest Rating
  "Lead Mariko Tsutsui (also of Harmonium) is haunted here, delivering a performance that's affecting even when we're in the dark about what her character is thinking. "
  John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
• Highest Rating
  "[A] steadily absorbing crime thriller with at least two satisfying twists. "
  Kent Turner, Film-Forward
• Highest Rating
  "Fukada has delivered another subtle, startling and demanding drama about lives upended in a country that rarely gives us any hint this sort of thing happens, a film built on stoic performances that give up their reserve when the worst kind of pressure is applied."
  Roger Moore, Movie Nation