Original Title: 偶然と想像
Year: 2021
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Language: Japanese; English subtitles
Country: Japan
Runtime: 121 min
Rating: M18

Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy is one of two critically-acclaimed films released in 2021 by rising Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
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Awards

SILVER BEAR GRAND JURY PRIZE
Berlin International Film Festival 2021

Full Synopsis

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding.

Meiko is startled when she realises that the man whom her best friend is starting to have feelings for, is her ex; Nao aids her lover Sasaki in a cunning revenge against his college professor, while Natsuko encounters a woman who appears to be from her past, leading the two to confess feelings they have harboured in their hearts.

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is a three-part anthology film, featuring stories about the complexities of relationships, told through the coincidences that happen in the lives of women in love.

This film is part of the programme Rerun: December 2025. For more screenings, please click here. 

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