Kotoko
2011 · Movie · 91 min · ★ 7.2 · 63% critics
A single mother struggles to care for her baby while frightening visions and double vision blur her sense of reality. After a breakdown leads to her child being taken away, singing becomes her only calm—until a chance encounter with a writer draws her into an intense, unstable connection.
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Details
- Original title
- KOTOKO
- Years
- 2011
- Release date
- 2011-11-26
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Critic score
- 63/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (119 votes)
About
If you like intense, unsettling psychological dramas where reality feels unstable and relationships turn volatile, this may work for you; Not for you if you want light viewing or clear-cut comfort, like in Nightmare Detective 2.
Pros: raw emotional intensity; unsettling psychological tension; memorable singing moments | Cons: very distressing themes; volatile relationship focus; bleak overall mood
Themes
- single mother
- mental illness
- psychological drama
Cast & crew
Cocco
as Kotoko
Shinya Tsukamoto
as Seitaro Tanaka
Yuko Nakamura
- ET
Eiichi Takahashi
- RN
Ryugo Nakamura
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto