Tag: Azusa Yamazaki
Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden
In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers a quietly commanding performance as Marie-Lou, the director of a French care home who struggles...
All of a Sudden | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Of Human Bondage: Hamaguchi Highlights Humanity in Quiet Drama
In the midst of what ends up being a transformative month for the principal players in...
Evil Does Not Exist | Review
The Killing of a Sacred Dear: Hamaguchi Explores Ills of Urbanization
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi explores the doctrine about the absence of evil in his latest drama...
Video Interview: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s mesmerizing character studies (2015’s Happy Hour, 2018’s Asako I & II) often snag awards at major film festivals, and 2021 was...
Drive My Car | Review
Lamprey Love: The Play’s the Thing in Hamaguchi’s Brooding Saga of Regrets
“When one has no real life, one lives on illusions,” is one of...
