It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival[2] and it was released on 26 April 2013.

[3] Ninagawa was a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.

Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the three major Japanese newspapers.

The filming began on 19 August 2012,[4] and took place in Japan, primarily in Aichi and Mie Prefectures, and Taiwan.

[5] On 24 October 2016, it was announced that EuropaCorp is planning an English-language remake to be penned by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt and produced by Depth of Field's Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano and Dan Balgoyen and All Nippon Entertainment Works's Sandy Climan and Annmarie Bailey, and Nippon Television's Naoaki Kitajima.