Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like...
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★★★★★
Little strange, weird, lovely, humble, sweet and gentle movie like Koreeda films. Fell in Love. Must watch.
★★★★★
Sleeping or Waking was an odd movie.
The story was good and the romance was really intense. I liked how they presented the relationship and its course. The two had great chemistry and that helped a lot with the progress of the drama. However, the ending twist...
★★★★★
Part of my accidental trilogy of "love" films in Oct 2022, this film shares some aspects with "Marriage is a Crazy Thing." That aspect of a "grass is greener" approach to romance; the power of the flirt/affair/infatuation vs a day-to-day reliable relationship....
★★★★★
Interesting premise, but flat characters making infuriating decisions made this one tough to fully appreciate. It's a film that had its moments in the interplay between the friends, but felt too simplistic at the core of its love triangle, and dragged on too l...
★★★★★
Emergent Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, after his international breakthrough HAPPY HOUR (2015), is welcomed to Cannes' main competition for its follow up ASAKO I & II, an adaptation of Tomoka Shibasaki's 2010 novel.
The story traces a threadbare templa...
