Drive My Car – NYFF 2021 Review Weiting Liu October 18, 2021 Reviews Inspired by author Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same title, writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cannes Best Screenplay winner Drive My Car is an avant-garde metatextual curation interweaving...
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy – NYFF 2021 Review Weiting Liu October 11, 2021 Reviews Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s effortlessly beautiful anthology film comprised of three vignettes: a morbidly amusing love triangle, a seduction trap that goes awry, and...
Asako I & II – Cannes 2018 Review Tom Bond May 23, 2018 Reviews Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II is an endearing Japanese rom-com with a high-concept premise. Asako (Erika Karata) falls in love with Baku (Masashiro Higashide) at university, but he walks out of her...