¡®Don¡¯t you understand what is to have a child taken from you? How could you be a policeman and not understand that?¡±
That¡¯s a line from ¡°Rokuyon¡± (¡°Six Four¡°) the latest addition to Japan¡¯s host of films about kidnapping. ¡°Six Four¡± is distinctive in the thriller subgenre, however, in that it had a budget to create a feature more than four hours long, which the distributors (Toho Cinema) have decided to break up into two parts. Part 1 opens this weekend, while Part 2 opens on June 11.
Written and directed by Toshihisa Zeze, ¡°Six Four¡± is a faithful adaptation of novelist Hideo Yokoyama¡¯s bestselling mystery, which was dramatized by NHK last year, which is why splitting the narrative into two parts may not be a ploy to keep viewers on tenterhooks for a month.
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