Guzen to sozo
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Fusako Urabe, Aoba Kawai
Guzen to sozo | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
JPN 2021, Competition
© 2021 Neopa/Fictive

Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori
Guzen to sozo | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
JPN 2021, Competition
© 2021 Neopa/Fictive

Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima
Guzen to sozo | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
JPN 2021, Competition
© 2021 Neopa/Fictive

Film poster
Guzen to sozo | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
JPN 2021, Competition
With
- Kotone Furukawa (Meiko)
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa (Segawa)
- Katsuki Mori (Nao)
- Fusako Urabe (Moka)
- Aoba Kawai (Nana)
- Ayumu Nakajima (Kazuaki)
- Hyunri (Tsugumi)
- Shouma Kai (Sasaki)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
Cinematography | Yukiko Iioka |
Sound Design | Akihiko Suzuki |
Sound | Naoki Jono |
Production Design | Masato Nunobe |
Costumes | Fuminori Usui |
Make-Up | Yukiko Sumi |
Assistant Directors | Toru Takano, Takayuki Fukata |
Production Manager | Hitoshi Omika |
Producer | Satoshi Takata |
Executive Producers | Sho Harada, Katsumi Tokuyama |
Produced by
Neopa
Tokio, Japan
+81 3 6670336
Fictive
Tokio, Japan
World sales
Ryusuke Hamaguchi

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he worked in the film industry for a few years before entering the graduate film programme at the Tokyo University of the Arts. His graduation film, Passion, screened at San Sebastian Film Festival in 2008. His 317-minute opus Happy Hour premiered at Locarno and went on to screen and win awards at numerous film festivals. Asako I & II was selected for the competition at Cannes in 2018. He also wrote the screenplay for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, which won the Silver Lion at Venice in 2020.
Filmography
2008 Passion 2009 I Love Thee for Good 2010 The Depths 2011 Sound of Waves 2012 Intimacies 2013 Voice of the Waves Shinchi Town · Voice of the Waves Kisenuma · Storytellers · Touching the Skin of Eeriness 2015 Happy Hour 2016 Heaven is Still Far Away 2018 Asako I & II 2021 Guzen to sozo (Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2021