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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Hamaguchi again builds intimate drama through patient conversations, emotional aftershocks, and quietly destabilising relationships, with the same alertness to how people perform feeling before they can name it.
02
Why this pick
Its three chance-encounter stories share Asako I & II’s fascination with mistaken perception, romantic uncertainty, and the subtle shifts in a face or conversation that alter an entire emotional reality.
03
Why this pick
A precise, hushed portrait of a young woman in an elusive relationship, told with the same cool visual distance and unnerving sense that love can make familiar behaviour difficult to read.
04
Why this pick
Its delicately varied structure turns small social gestures and romantic conversations into a study of perception, echoing Asako I & II’s interest in alternate emotional possibilities and awkward intimacy.
05
Why this pick
This apartment-bound chamber piece finds tension in glances, pauses, and shifting attachments; its formally controlled observation makes ordinary interactions feel as strange and charged as Asako’s dislocation.
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01 / THE STORY
Asako, a young woman who lives in Osaka, has a relationship with Baku for a while. Baku suddenly disappears, and they lose in touch with each other.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Baku Torii / Ryohei Maruto
Asako
Haruyo
Hirakawa
Kushihashi
Maya
Okazaki
Eiko
