Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi won wide acclaim and festival prizes with his 2015 breakthrough feature, the bittersweet ensemble drama Happy Hour.
But the nuanced, novelistic eye behind that delicately observed five-hour epic seemed to desert Hamaguchi on his 2018 anti-romance Asako I & II, which premiered to lukewarm reviews in Cannes.
Happily, Hamaguchi seems to have got his mojo back with Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, a Tokyo-set triptych of contemporary chamber dramas.
Each of the three plots is shaped by chance and coincidence, doubles and echoes. Featuring a mostly female headline cast and a talk-heavy script, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is full of understated, melancholy poetry.
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