The films of Japanese film director and screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi lodge in your brain and heart like small incendiary devices, ticking from his self-awareness toward yours.
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Two new films arrive at the M.V. Film Center on Friday, Oct. 22. “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” and “I’m Your Man” are both about relationships but very different kinds. In the case of “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” it’s about female friendships, and “I’m your Man” concerns what happens between a scientist and a […]
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up Cannes-selected Asako I & II with a slight but satisfying trio of female-driven vignettes in which fate plays a central role.
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Running time: Running time: 121 MIN.
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When Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi made his return to fiction after time away in the realm of documentary, he dispensed with the idea that stories must conform to feature length. “Happy Hour,” the sprawling ensemble drama that sparked interest in him among cinephiles, ran more than five hours, and while his latest, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” boasts a conventional enough running time of 121 minutes, the film is actually composed of three short stories, stitched together and somewhat arbitrarily present