The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Asako I & II
When
Wed 22 Apr 2026
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Hamaguchi’s follow up to his widely acclaimed critical breakthrough, 2015’s marathon Happy Hour, is a faithful adaptation of a 2010 novel by Tomoka Shibasaki. Erika Karata plays Asako, a modern young woman who lives first in Osaka and then in Tokyo. When these two distinctly different chapters of Asako’s life suddenly blur together we glimpse the fickle and complex nature of romantic love.
An examination of the female gaze and feminine desire that The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called an arresting and “amusing essay in amorous delusion”. With Masahiro Higashide.
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