Following Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s critically-acclaimed Drive My Car, the Japanese filmmaker is finally getting long-deserved recognition. That’s what winning multiple awards at Cannes and the Oscar for Best International Feature will do. And now Hamaguchi seems poised for more accolades with Evil Does Not Exist, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice.
Starring Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani, Hazuki Kikuchi, and Hiroyuki Miura, this modest story centers on a father and daughter living off the land in a village just outside of Tokyo. When a new camping development enters the planning stages, the city threatens to intrude on their lives, and the father has to weigh his involvement with that disruption.
Evil Does Not Exist is currently set for limited release in New York on May 3rd.
