Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI 濱口竜介
Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy
Nippon Cinema ª
Three episodes, three women, three encounters: Meiko finds out that her best friend fell in love with her ex. Nao wants revenge on the professor who let her boyfriend fail his final exam. And Natsuko encounters a woman she claims to know from school – a charming anthology film with unlikely coincidences and surprising twists.
偶然と想像
Guzen to sozo
Japan 2021
121 minutes
Distribution
Film Kino Text
Cast
Kotone FURUKAWA, Kiyohiko SHIBUKAWA, Katsuki MORI, Fusako URABE, Aoba KAWAI
About Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI
濱口竜介
Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI, born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1978, studied at Tokyo University of the Arts. His graduation film PASSION (2008) participated in the competition of the Tokyo FilmEx festival. In 2015, his film HAPPY HOUR earned him international critical acclaim and won multiple awards at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2022, he received the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film with DRIVE MY CAR (2021). Nippon Connection has shown a number of his films, including INTIMACIES (2011 / NC ’12) and ASAKO I & II (2018 / NC ’19).