In 2021, Hamaguchi Ryusuke won truckloads of honors and also almost global crucial recognition for his three-hour dramatization “Drive My Car,” consisting of 3 rewards at Cannes and also an ideal image Academy Award election, the very first for a Japanese movie. (That Oscar went in other places, yet “Drive My Car” was called finest worldwide attribute movie.)
Instead of attempting to cover this accomplishment with a larger budget plan and also even more globally understood names in the actors, Hamaguchi has actually gone back to his indie origins with “Evil Does Not Exist,” which premieres in competitors at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
The movie started life as a cooperation with singer-songwriter Ishibashi Eiko, that racked up “Drive My Car,” to offer an aesthetic background for her online efficiencies. But rather than a video, Hamaguchi made a 106-minute movie with a slow-burn tale concerning 2 agents of a Tokyo …