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Drive My Car
Why this pick
Hamaguchi again uses extended, attentive conversations and emotional misdirection, letting chance encounters and rehearsed words gradually expose private grief and desire.
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MOVIE2021 2h 1m JPN
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Why this pick
A delicately staged chamber drama where performance, memory, and family roles keep shifting; its pleasure lies in the small verbal hesitations and unresolved emotional currents.
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Right Now, Wrong Then
Why this pick
Its two-part structure revisits an awkward romantic encounter with subtly altered choices, matching Hamaguchi’s fascination with contingency, self-presentation, and the consequences of a few words.
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Happy Hour
Why this pick
A richer, more expansive Hamaguchi portrait of women navigating friendship, marriage, and self-understanding through patient scenes whose emotional weight accumulates almost imperceptibly.
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My Night at Maud's
Why this pick
A talk-driven romantic moral puzzle in which a single evening’s conversation turns flirtation, ideals, and self-deception into quietly gripping tension.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kotone Furukawa
芽衣子
Ayumu Nakajima
和明
Hyunri
つぐみ
Katsuki Mori
奈緒
Shouma Kai
佐々木
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
瀬川
Fusako Urabe
夏子
Aoba Kawai
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