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Asako I & II

Netemo sametemo

2018

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Masahiro Higashide, Erika Karata, Atsushi Kaneshige, Kôji Seto ...

6.6

757

Romance. Drama Asako is a 21-year-old woman, living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and she meets Ryohei. He looks just like her ex-boyfriend Baku, but he has a completely different personality. Ryohei is a salaryman, with a sincere personality. Asako falls in love with Ryohei.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"An oddly old-fashioned depiction of troubled romance whose mildly unusual premise ultimately leads nowhere very interesting."	NEG
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"An intriguing premise that never pays off the dividends it promises (...) A coolly-executed but emotionally numb exercise"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"An inventive new take on relationship problems (...) An exquisite showcase for nuanced performances and a filmmaker in complete control of idiosyncratic material"	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"'Asako I & II' is a lovely meditation on memory and loss (...) At least, it is that until Hamaguchi suddenly crams a lot of plot into the last half hour"	NEU
United States	Maggie Lee Variety	"This is less ambitious and lacks the raw honesty or spellbinding intensity of [its predecessor] (...) Adapting a novel (...) what gets transferred to the screen becomes more like banal indecision."	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is great work from Higashide (...) This is an amusing essay in amorous delusion (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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