Asako I & II (Netemo sametemo)2018
Asako I & II (Netemo sametemo) (2018)
TOMATOMETER
AUDIENCE SCORE
Critic Consensus: Asako I & II's high-concept premise is anchored by thought-provoking themes and confident, compelling work from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Asako I & II (Netemo sametemo) Photos
Movie Info
Cast
as Baku / Ryôhei
as Asako
as Maya
as Kushihashi
as Okazaki
Critic Reviews for Asako I & II (Netemo sametemo)
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (6)
There are moments of real beauty in the film, which is an unassuming and contemplative excursion into how we love, and why. But like the fireworks that greet Asako and Baku's first kiss, its pop is a modest one.
Asako I & II ultimately works as a mellow date movie with some big insights about relationships-accessible and artful, a combination that should be more common, honestly.
Hamaguchi extols his source for a compelling representation of love as a mystic experience. However, what gets transferred to the screen becomes more like banal indecision.
An oddly old-fashioned depiction of troubled romance whose mildly unusual premise ultimately leads nowhere very interesting.
It's refreshing to see a high-concept movie that doesn't assume every love story has to reach a tidy conclusion, and implies that some happy endings are best left open-ended.
Asako I & II, the follow-up to Hamaguchi's study in the group dynamics of four thirty-something female friends, Happy Hour... works in every bit as much feeling and active intelligence as its predecessor.
Audience Reviews
There are no featured reviews for Asako I & II (Netemo sametemo) at this time.
Asako I & II (Netemo sametemo) Quotes
There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.