A 21-year-old British woman walks out of her Tokyo apartment for a shift at work in July 2000 and is never seen again — this documentary follows the search her father refused to abandon.
What is Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case about?
Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case traces the disappearance of Lucie Blackman from Tokyo in the summer of 2000, from the early days when Japanese police treated her as a missing adult rather than a crime victim, through the mounting pressure that turned the case into an international investigation. The film draws heavily on her father, Tim Blackman, whose account of pushing authorities and the press to keep looking anchors the story, alongside the wider cultural and legal gap between how British and Japanese institutions initially handled a foreign national's disappearance. Director Hyōe Yamamoto builds the film around that gap and the eventual reckoning it produced, rather than sensationalizing the crime itself.
About the cast
The film centers on Tim Blackman, Lucie Blackman's father, whose firsthand account of the search and the investigation drives the documentary.
Context & significance
Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case is a joint American and Japanese production released in 2023, revisiting a case that drew heavy media coverage in both countries at the time and reshaped how each country's institutions communicated during a cross-border missing-person search. Running just over eighty minutes, the film moves briskly through the timeline while still giving Tim Blackman's perspective room to breathe. Its IMDb standing sits in solid true-crime territory, reflecting a documentary judged mainly on how directly it lets the family's own account carry the case.
Watching Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case on Ktime
Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login. K-Time's Farsi-first interface means Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora can search, browse, and manage watchlists in their own language, even for English-language true-crime documentaries like this one.