Evil Does Not Exist

• Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• 106 min
• Japan
• 2023
• Fiction

A masterful drama by Oscar winner Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, in which a Japanese eco-community faces the fateful decision of whether to open its doors to the tourism industry.

Single father Takumi leads a simple life in symbiosis with nature in the Japanese countryside, and he is an influential voice in the tightly-knit village's consciously archaic approach. When two suits from Tokyo arrive with the aim of building a luxurious glamping resort, they realize that the path to the residents' approval goes through Takumi, and he is offered a job. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, whose films Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and the Oscar-winning Drive My Car were featured at the 2022 Göteborg Film Festival, returns with a quiet and focused drama that, with virtuoso presence, depicts Takumi's anguish in the face of the irreversible consequences of urbanization.

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• Drama
• Motstånd
• Miljö
• Landsbygd
• Politik
• Social rättvisa