(segment Magic, or Something Less Assuring)
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Kotone Furukawa
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Ayumu Nakajima
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Hyunri
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(segment Door Wide Open)
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Kiyohiko Shibukawa
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Katsuki Mori
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Shouma Kai
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(segment Once Again)
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Fusako Urabe
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Aoba Kawai
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(segment Magic, or Something Less Assuring) | Kotone Furukawa | Ayumu Nakajima | |||
Hyunri | (segment Door Wide Open) | Kiyohiko Shibukawa | |||
Katsuki Mori | Shouma Kai | (segment Once Again) | |||
Fusako Urabe | Aoba Kawai |
(segment Magic, or Something Less Assuring) | Kotone Furukawa | ||
Ayumu Nakajima | Hyunri | ||
(segment Door Wide Open) | Kiyohiko Shibukawa | ||
Katsuki Mori | Shouma Kai | ||
(segment Once Again) | Fusako Urabe | ||
Aoba Kawai |
Hamaguchi has an unusual rehearsal style which sees his actors learn lines by table reading together in flat monotone until the shoot. Then in medium or long shots, often through extended speeches in enclosed spaces, the tiniest emotions take on epic scale. That happens here – to devastatingly lovely effect – in a final ‘episode’ in which two middle aged women connect after at first mistaking each other for high school classmates.
Deserving winner of the Silver Bear the Berlin Film Festival.