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Takes a sci-fi premise and gives it a realistic bent, posing uncomfortable (and perhaps unanswerable) questions about where our love for one person ends and our love for another begins. Hamaguchi's touch is often feather-light, but the clarity of his observation - and the serene beauty of his images - imbues his rom-com sensibility with enough of a punch to bruise, however modestly.

The idea of falling in love with a similar person with a similar face and different personality can be very metaphorical - as an image of how people change through time and how relationships are affected by it. Baku, the young irresponsible dude; Ryôhei is the opposite - both of them as forces that fight inside Asako. The story actually works Asako's personal growth beautifully.

On second thought, no.

Beautifully crafted saga tells an unusual (if not always credible) tale of romantic obsession and infatuation, making some pertinent and interesting observations along the way on the notion of fantasy vs ideals, and how projections of the personalities of others can often clash uneasily with our own; Asako's uncertain journeying through her relationships with Baku and Ryohei are certainly intriguing and thought provoking. Beautifully performed by both leads, and stunningly photographed at times.

Viewed December 7, 2019.

I liked the thought experiment about the nature of love, asking whether it is unshackled desire or dedication. Also, there is the question of chance, and authenticity in a world where we are tiny dots. Yet the cold impartiality of RH in observing Asako's unethical and irresponsible behavior turned me off. I detest the fact that Asako goes unpunished in the face of her utter unethical behavior. Also, I hated Asako's silence, apathy, and "anything goes" attitude.

Cute and breezy

The mid-point revelation is a bit deflating, sucks all the mystery out of the plot (I was absolutely loving it up to then), and then it just kinda turns into a melodrama in the third act. Not my bag. As usual, I’m likely missing all the important subtext

That one dude is seriously so cucked. Like the joking definition and the literal. Decent picture tho. Weird moments of real crass humour caught me off guard

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi uses the idea of a woman falling in love with a look-alike to examine falling in love, especially how our past loves form our current loves and how we look for our past lovers in new ones. Which are all very interesting themes, but the movie is pulled down by the fact that the main characters are far from fleshed out. We learn very little about them and what exactly attracts them to each others.

Asako I & II is the most unapologetic reflection of the treacherousness of love. Hamaguchi distinguishingly brings Asako, a shy girl who keeps to herself, to life and gives her the insurmountable task of understanding love as a human. She, as anyone in this pursuit will, makes some hideous choices that few would find palatable. However, she accepts her fallibility and embraces her humanity. Hamaguchi builds an impassioned mess of modern romance that enchants with its haunting after-thoughts.

Beautiful. Really, really beautiful. 'Quietly devastating' is an overused comment, but it fits here.

Beautifully weird and strange melodramatic romance about a girl falling for a face. Her boyfriend in Osaka just leaves her. Years later, in Tokyo, she knows and gets married to a man just like him. An old friend returns and tells her about her first love — now a TV and commercial celebrity. Which one is her true love? Earthquake scene ending with an encounter is just great. All seems a bit forced and maybe too subtle, but either way it is an interesting film. Greatest cat in contemporary cinem

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thought this was gonna be cute but I got kicked in the chest instead.

Aff, é um bom filme, mas me irritou deveras como a protagonista fica correndo atrás de homem, um, depois outro. Aff, não. Na Mubi.

Hamaguchi follows up on Happy Hour with a more accessible (and much shorter) film, which nonetheless manages to connect emotionally. This relationship drama, which is about the small and large ways in which the echoes of past relationships can still be felt in the present, adds a touch of mystery to make its central metaphors literal.

Every love story is a ghost story? I don't even know.

Hong Sang-Soo does this kind of thing better in my opinion. Still this has some really nice aesthetic choices which make this still worthy