This miniseries was a surprise. Quiet, intense, unpredictable.
Mawkish, stilted, amateurish. Acting was good but the parents were poorly cast.
This was the main thought that ran through my mind as I laboured through this movie. And indeed it held true, for although the movie as a whole was quite slow, it was a solid story and held a few twists which came as a pleasant but not stunning surprise.
This carefully narrated TV film offers a reasonably coherent insight into people's feelings and reactions when a member of the household is kidnapped for ransom. For this reason `disquieting' is an apt term to use.
I'm not sure why this received so few stars. It's not an excellent movie, but very touching in a simplistic way - very Japanese.
