Seeking out the
5000 greatest films
in a century of cinema
Evil Does Not Exist
Aku wa sonzai shinai
Directed by
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Produced by Satoshi Takada
Produced by Satoshi Takada
With:
Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani, Hazuki Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Miura, Yoshinori Miyata, Takuma Nagao, and Taijirô Tamura
Cinematography:
Yoshio Kitagawa
Editing: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Azusa Yamazaki
Music: Eiko Ishibashi
Editing: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Azusa Yamazaki
Music: Eiko Ishibashi
Runtime:
106 min
Release Date: 26 April 2024
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 26 April 2024
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
The latest from Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy) is an inscrutable tale of man vs. nature set in a rural Japanese village where the residents are confronted with a poorly thought-out real estate project. Much of it is mesmerizing, but it's either way too complicated or way too simplistic (depending on how you read the ending's meaning).