A caregiver becomes a pariah in A Girl Missing, Koji Fukada's follow-up to 2016's Un Certain Regard-lauded Harmonium. A tale of scandal and spite that keeps its burner set to low instead of exploiting a very fraught plot for seedy suspense, it centers on a slowly-unveiled tit-for-tat that will strike many viewers as too tidy to believe.
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.
But this turn alone isn't quite enough to make the Japanese import an easy sell to English-language viewers. Tsutsui plays Ichiko, a home nurse employed by the family of an aging painter.
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