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Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi's latest feature, Evil Does Not Exist, and the period action pic 12.12: The Day, from Korea, lead the nominations at this year's Asian Film Awards.  Both films received six nominations, including Best Film and Best Director. Directed by Kim Sung-soo, whose credits…

Ning Hao's The Movie Emperor will screen as the opening film of Macau's Asia-Europe Young Cinema Film Festival, which is holding its inaugural edition from January 5-11. Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 12th Fail, recently a hit in India, will screen as the closing film.  The event has two major sections – a…

Japan has dominated this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), with German filmmaker Wim Wenders' latest Tokyo-set pic and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car follow-up taking the top prizes.  Wenders' Cannes competition title Perfect Days won APSA's Best Film award, while Hamaguchi's enigmatic…

Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi has clinched the best film award in the main official competition of the 67th London Film Festival with his latest feature, Evil Does Not Exist.  The enigmatic pic is Hamaguchi's follow-up to the Oscar-winning Drive My Car and follows young father Takumi and his…

Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi's latest feature, Evil Does Not Exist, leads this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) with four nods, including the gong for Best Film.  Hamaguchi's nominations haul includes Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography for Yoshio Kitagawa. The…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's latest, Evil Does Not Exist, received a 7-minute, 50-second ovation at its Venice Film Festival world premiere on the Lido on Monday. The applause for the director of last year's Best International Feature Oscar winner Drive My Car only ended when Hamaguchi and his team got up to…

When Venice head Alberto Barbera announced his competition lineup in July, he confessed that he and his selection team were surprised to see one submission in their database: a feature project by Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.  Hamaguchi had quietly returned to filmmaking following the…

Shinrin-yoku, which translates as "forest-bathing," was a Japanese invention of the 1980s: a meditative therapy that connects burnt-out urbanites with the healing power of nature. Evil Does Not Exist, the latest film from the celebrated director of Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi – and a contender for the…

New works by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kitty Green, and Christos Nikou are among the titles that have been set to play in competition at the upcoming 67th edition of the British Film Institute's (BFI) London Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list. Eleven films will screen in the official competition…

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all North American rights to Academy Award-winning Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Venice Film Festival next month. The companies previously enjoyed success with Hamaguchi's 2022 Best…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car scooped the International Feature Film Oscar on Sunday, becoming the second movie from Japan to take a competitive prize in the category formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film (it’s the fifth for Japan if we count honorary awards given out in the 1950s). From the Dolby stage, and…

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival there is a critics' favorite. Last year, it was Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, a loose adaptation of three stories from Haruki Murakami's 2014 compendium Men Without Women, that stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yūsuke Kafuku, an actor and theater director dealing with a tragic…