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Evil Does Not Exist Aku wa sonzai shinai

Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Japan / 2023 / 106 min / Japanese

The ecological health of a small Japanese rural community is threatened by a new glamping development. But evil is done by ordinary people with reasons for their incomprehensible urge to destroy.

cast Hitoshi Omika (Takumi), Ryo Nishikawa (Hana), Ryuji Kosaka (Takahashi), Ayaka Shibutani (Mayuzumi), Hazuki Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Miura, Yoshinori Miyata      

festivals, awards Venice 2023 (Grand Jury Prize), Toronto 2023, New York 2023 

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Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi’s house offering city residents a comfortable “escape” to nature. When two company representatives from Tokyo arrive in the village to hold a meeting, it becomes clear that the project will have a negative impact on the local water supply, causing unrest. The agency’s mismatched intentions endanger both the ecological balance of the plateau and the villagers’ way of life.

"In this film, I had a wonderful opportunity to work with Drive My Car’s composer Eiko Ishibashi again. The film project began when she asked me to create some footage for her live performance, and I conceived of the film as an “original source material”. /.../ After the shoot, I felt that I had captured interactions of people in nature and completed the work as a single film with Eiko Ishibashi’s beautiful theme music. I hope the audience will feel the life force of the figures that are stirring in nature and music." (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

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