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Evil Does Not Exist
悪は存在しない
2023 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.
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Watch japanese films. Or just generally don't watch american films
Kore-eda Hirokazu: Still Walking (2008), Monster (2023), Shoplifters (2018)
Hamaguchi Ryusuke: Drive My Car (2021), Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
A Story of Yonosuke (2013) from Okita Shuichi
Memories of Matsuko (2006) from Nakashima Tetsuya
Departures (2008) from Takita Yojiro
Perfect Days (2023) from Wim Wenders. Even though he is not japanese it's a very japanese film
but there are lot more
Evil Does Not exist is Ryusuke Hamaguchi's first movie after the internationally successful Drive My Car, so I would hope there would be some domestic support but that might be pure naivety on my part.
are movies like Evil Does Not Exist as popular in Japan as the examples in the article though? there must be a lot of similar niche movies made in the US
For other relatively recent movies I'd add:
> Evil Does Not Exist > Godland > The Beast > The Worst Person in the World > Misericordia > The Banshees of Inisherin > Amanda [0] > Afire [1] [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18469872/
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26440619/
Japan doesn't have suburbs in the same way as the US, small towns often look and feel the same as the outskirts of major cities; although very small towns, as depicted in the Hamaguchi's most recent film Evil Does not Exist, are qualitatively different from both.