WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY
DRAMA | JAPANESE | 121 MIN
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding.
Meiko is startled when she realises 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 harboured in their hearts - stories about the complexities of relationships, told through coincidences that happen in the lives of women in love.
DIRECTOR Ryusuke Hamaguchi
CAST Kotone Furukawa, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai, Fusako Urabe, Ayumu Nakajima
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION Japan
“A wondrous and searching film”
★★★★★
— THE UPCOMING
“An absorbing set of vignettes”
★★★★
— LITTLE WHITE LIES
“Hamaguchi has weaved another gentle and
powerful web of human intimacy.”
★★★★
— EMPIRE
“ingenious, playful, sparklingly acted and
thoroughly entertaining”
★★★★
— THE GUARDIAN
FESTIVALS + AWARDS
2021 Berlinale Film Festival
Winner: Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
2021 Moscow IFF
Official Selection
2021 Melbourne IFF
Official Selection
2021 New York Film Festival
Official Selection
2021 BFI London Film Festival
Official Selection: Love Strand
15th Asian Film Awards
2 Nominations: Best Film & Best Director