A woman vanishes the day after her boyfriend proposes; as he searches for clues, director Akihiro Toda fractures the narrative, Rashomon-style, each shard of story refracting light onto the protagonist’s troubled psyche. In this mesmerizing Japanese mystery, Hana Sugisaki (Piéta in the Toilet) delivers a bewitching, enigmatic performance as the disappeared Ichiko, a woman whose absence is no mere plot device but a probing psychological mystery with real-world echoes. Toda, adapting his own award-winning 2015 stage play, digs into the traumas that can make a seemingly ordinary person go missing from her own life. As in Citizen Kane, the woman at the center remains elusive, but the investigation reveals hard truths about love, empathy, and the secrets we keep even from ourselves. Sugisaki's tour-de-force performance anchors the film's tricky structure, as Toda boldly hopscotches through time, each chapter peeling away another layer of Ichiko's persona. More than just a missing person case, Ichiko is a spellbinding meditation on the masks we wear and the parts of ourselves that can go missing when we're not looking.