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.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Writer: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima and Hyunri
Full Cast: Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai, Fusako Urabe, Aoba Kawai,
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Bookended by fantastic pieces,I would have rated a little lower, but the third act is marvelous. TBH the second story is good but way overshadowed by the other two. What a great treatment of what it means to "love."
Fmovies: There are three stories, basically three dialogues and in the first two stories the topics of discussion are also trivial if not boring: the first dialogue deals with emotional misunderstandings between young couples, the second is the story of a masturbation of no interest.
The third story, albeit unlikely, is the most interesting: a young woman lived an intense love affair with a high school friend and regrets not being able to express the importance and greatness of her love to her partner when she left her to get married. This story makes us understand how in today's world great importance is given to material well-being and economic conditions and, on the contrary, so little importance is given to our deepest feelings and passions. And so one of the questions the girl asks the other woman is: "Are you happy? Is this the life you dreamed of when you grew up?"
The director, Hamaguchi, defines himself as a "narrator" but the director of a film has many means and tools at his disposal to tell a story and to involve the viewer: the description of the unfolding of the narrative, the dialogues, the photography, the sounds, the music, the charisma of the actors, acting skills, etc., while this film is mainly based on dialogue and above all it lacks the emotional involvement of the viewer.
The director showed how to create an amazing story with just a fixed scene and two actors talking to each other with some very good dialogs.
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy fmovies. We couldn't finish watching this lousy movie just because the 1st part of it simply and easily turned us off. The leading young female actor was a very bad and very unlikable person on the screen. We couldn't even understand how such ugly and plain young woman would have the possibility to become a model. Then the long conversation in the taxi went on and on between this young woman and the other better-looking, more matured woman was just too long to watch.
This is a terrible and uninteresting movie, not a good wy to kill your time. Not recommended at all.
With mise-en-scène that strongly resemblance of a stage play, there's an undeniable sort of distance between the viewers and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. At least for a while. But then Hamaguchi Ryûsuke was able to break the distance with his direction that felt both intimate and personal. In the end, the film has a lasting impact, even long after the end credit rolls.
I don't like "day and night" very much, but I unexpectedly like it. Watching the film will really change with the passage of time, the change of place and the growth of mentality. Lightness and relaxation are the most intuitive feelings brought to the audience. Although the choice of each character may change the fate, after the reversal of lifting heavy as light, there is only relief and aftertaste left. I like the third story best. It is the most coincidental and untrue, but it indicates rebirth and hope, which may also be the biggest charm of Hamaguchi film.