Official Selection Out of Competition · 43rd Edition
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY
偶然と想像
Director
Ryüsuke HAMAGUCHI
Country
Japan
Runtime
2 h 1 min
Language
Japanese
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
A conscientious chronicler of the life of women in contemporary Japan, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi presents three loosely connected tales in which human relationships are influenced by unpredictable, fateful chance. Hamaguchi encloses the grand themes of love, revenge, and reconciliation into long, carefully written dialogues that subtly criticize the problems faced by Japanese society today.
Cast
Kotone FURUKAWA, Ayumu NAKAJIMA, Kiyohiko SHIBUKAWA, Katsuki MORI, Shouma KAI, Fusako URABE, Aoba KAWAI
About the Director
After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he worked in the film industry for a few years before entering the graduate film programme at the Tokyo University of the Arts. His graduation film, Passion, screened at San Sebastian Film Festival in 2008. His 317-minute opus Happy Hour premiered at Locarno and went on to screen and win awards at numerous film festivals. Asako I & II was selected for the competition at Cannes in 2018. He also wrote the screenplay for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, which won the Silver Lion at Venice in 2020.
Screenings