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Asako I & II
Why this pick
Hamaguchi again lets small social gestures and conversations accumulate into an unusually searching portrait of love, uncertainty, and the stories people tell themselves about intimacy.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2015 5h 17m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Happy Hour
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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The Day He Arrives
Why this pick
Its deceptively casual meetings, drinks, and repeated conversations create the same alert pleasure in watching adult relationships shift through minute changes of tone and perspective.
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Right Now, Wrong Then
Why this pick
A formally playful, dialogue-led study of attraction and self-presentation, with the patient pacing and emotional precision that make ordinary encounters feel consequential.
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Love Exposure
Why this pick
For another expansive Japanese relationship drama, it offers a far more feverish register but shares Happy Hour’s fascination with social roles, emotional confession, and lives altered by connection.
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Certain Women
Why this pick
Reichardt’s quietly interwoven stories observe women navigating work, marriage, loneliness, and desire with the same unhurried attention to silences, routines, and understated emotional upheaval.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film follows the lives and loves of four middle-class women in their thirties who are friends and who live in Kobe. When one reveals she is undergoing divorce proceedings, the others begin to rethink their relationships.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sachie Tanaka
Akari
Hazuki Kikuchi
Sakurako
Maiko Mihara
Fumi
Rira Kawamura
Jun
Yuichiro Ito
Kawano
Hiroyuki Miura
Takuya
Shuhei Shibata
Ukai
Ayaka Shibutani
Yuzuki