Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy


Synopsis : Meiko is startled when she realizes that the man who her best friend starts
to have feelings for, is her ex; Sasaki plots to trick his college professor out of revenge,
using his class-friend-with-benefits Nao, while Natsuko encounters a woman who
seems to be someone from her past, leading the two to confess the feelings they have
harbored in their hearts - stories about the complexities of relationships, told through
coincidences that happen in the lives of women in love.


Festival History : San Sebastián International Film Festival 2021 São Paulo International Film Festival 2021 BFI London Film Festival 2021


Awards : Berlinale Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize


Director : Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Producer : Satoshi Takata
Screenplay : Ryusuke Hamaguchi
DOP : Yukiko Iioka
Editor : Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Cast : Kotone Furukawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori,


Ryusuke Hamaguchi

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he worked in the film industry for a few years before entering the graduate film programme at the Tokyo University of the Arts. His graduation film, Passion, screened at San Sebastian Film Festival in 2008. His 317-minute opus Happy Hour premiered at Locarno and went on to screen and win awards at numerous film festivals. Asako I & II was selected for the competition at Cannes in 2018. He also wrote the screenplay for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, which won the Silver Lion at Venice in 2020.

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