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Asako I & II's high-concept premise is anchored by thought-provoking themes and confident, compelling work from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
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[A] peculiarly potent story about life's unexpected little ruptures - those odd coincidences, repetitions and shifts in perspective that can set off aftershocks in the human heart. August 22, 2019 | Full Review…
[A] peculiarly potent story about life's unexpected little ruptures - those odd coincidences, repetitions and shifts in perspective that can set off aftershocks in the human heart.
Justin Chang
The movie keeps you guessing, mostly in pleasure, at both its meanings and its methods. July 25, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The movie keeps you guessing, mostly in pleasure, at both its meanings and its methods.
Ty Burr
Asako's only appeal seems to be that she's very pretty. Her depth of character she apparently keeps to herself. June 20, 2019 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Asako's only appeal seems to be that she's very pretty. Her depth of character she apparently keeps to herself.
G. Allen Johnson
Hamaguchi keeps us guessing as to whether the characters' longings are innate or instilled by something beyond them and us. June 6, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Hamaguchi keeps us guessing as to whether the characters' longings are innate or instilled by something beyond them and us.
Ben Sachs
There's just not a lot going on underneath the surfaces of these characters' sensitive, precise, and modestly expressed feelings. May 17, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
There's just not a lot going on underneath the surfaces of these characters' sensitive, precise, and modestly expressed feelings.
Simon Abrams
"Asako" proceeds from a premise that flirts with the mystic, but Hamaguchi executes it with elegantly rendered realism... The result is a picture that is simultaneously engaging and disconcerting. May 16, 2019 | Full Review…
"Asako" proceeds from a premise that flirts with the mystic, but Hamaguchi executes it with elegantly rendered realism... The result is a picture that is simultaneously engaging and disconcerting.
Glenn Kenny
Both leads are excellent. [Ryûsuke] Higashide will no doubt attract most attention, impressive in his ability to inhabit two very different characters, yet it's [Erika] Karata who is the power at the heart of the film. November 4, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Both leads are excellent. [Ryûsuke] Higashide will no doubt attract most attention, impressive in his ability to inhabit two very different characters, yet it's [Erika] Karata who is the power at the heart of the film.
Jennie Kermode
It is difficult to ignore that this delicate fantasy of love and destiny is much more intense than it seems on the surface thanks to a filmmaker capable of interpreting passion from silence. [Full Review in Spanish] September 4, 2019 | Full Review…
It is difficult to ignore that this delicate fantasy of love and destiny is much more intense than it seems on the surface thanks to a filmmaker capable of interpreting passion from silence. [Full Review in Spanish]
Alonso Díaz de la Vega
[Ryusuke] Hamaguchi possesses an eye for engrossing human interaction built on minute details in friendships. July 26, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
[Ryusuke] Hamaguchi possesses an eye for engrossing human interaction built on minute details in friendships.
Allyson Johnson
Hamaguchi himself refers to the divide as the Everyday versus the Unexpected, but his his literal symbolism of Ryôhei as harbor after an earthquake versus Baku's fireworks more aptly translates to safety and solidity versus danger and excitement. July 16, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Hamaguchi himself refers to the divide as the Everyday versus the Unexpected, but his his literal symbolism of Ryôhei as harbor after an earthquake versus Baku's fireworks more aptly translates to safety and solidity versus danger and excitement.
Laura Clifford
A masterfully crafted work of romantic introspection that probes deep without feeling ponderous; Hamaguchi's light touch asking difficult questions and arriving at something at once hopeful and haunting. July 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A masterfully crafted work of romantic introspection that probes deep without feeling ponderous; Hamaguchi's light touch asking difficult questions and arriving at something at once hopeful and haunting.
Matthew Lucas
It seems to be a conventional and light comedy at first, but Asako 1 & 2 shows an ingenious study about the vanity of human passions. [Full Review in Spanish] June 13, 2019 | Full Review…
It seems to be a conventional and light comedy at first, but Asako 1 & 2 shows an ingenious study about the vanity of human passions. [Full Review in Spanish]
Carlos Bonfil
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