Programme
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Guzen to Sozo
2021 Japan 121 min N-13
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An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter by a mistake. Meiko realizes that the man who her best friend starts to have feelings for, is her ex. Nao agrees to execute her friend-with-benefits’ plot against a professor. Natsuko encounters a woman she thought she knew, leading the two to confess the feelings they have harbored in their hearts. Three stories about the complexities of relationships, told through coincidences that happen in the lives of women in love.
“Inspired by Eric Rohmer's Rendezvous in Paris, R. Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) conducts variations on universal stories of relationships, desires and coincidences taking place in contemporary or near-future Japan. Masterfully written dialogues, complex female characters, and director’s imagination, allow for a deep experience of these encounters and also inevitably comment on a modern Japanese society.” (Ignė Smilingytė) World Premiere: Berlin Film Festival, Official Competition, 2021
Awards: Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival, 2021
“Inspired by Eric Rohmer's Rendezvous in Paris, R. Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) conducts variations on universal stories of relationships, desires and coincidences taking place in contemporary or near-future Japan. Masterfully written dialogues, complex female characters, and director’s imagination, allow for a deep experience of these encounters and also inevitably comment on a modern Japanese society.” (Ignė Smilingytė) World Premiere: Berlin Film Festival, Official Competition, 2021
Awards: Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival, 2021
Director's biography
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (b. 1978, Japan), one of the most important contemporary Japanese directors made his festival debut in 2008 with a graduation film Passion at San Sebastian. In 2015, his 317-minute feature film Happy Hour won major awards at numerous film festivals starting at Locarno Film Festival, and Asako I & II was selected for competition at Cannes in 2018. In 2021 he presented two films: Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy in Berlin and Drive My Car (also nominated for 4 “Oscars”) in Cannes.
Director(s) - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Screenwriter(s) - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Actors - Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri , Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai as Sasaki, Fusako Urabe, Aoba Kawai
Producer(s) - Satoshi Takada
Cinematographer - Yukiko Iioka
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Distributor - Kino Pavasaris Distribution
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Translation - Lina Martišiūtė
Dialogues - Japanese
Subtitles - Lithuanian, English
Director's biography
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (b. 1978, Japan), one of the most important contemporary Japanese directors made his festival debut in 2008 with a graduation film Passion at San Sebastian. In 2015, his 317-minute feature film Happy Hour won major awards at numerous film festivals starting at Locarno Film Festival, and Asako I & II was selected for competition at Cannes in 2018. In 2021 he presented two films: Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy in Berlin and Drive My Car (also nominated for 4 “Oscars”) in Cannes.
