Fusako Urabe

A mute Japanese girl expresses herself with her own style of dance, finding beauty in ordinary things and her bestie – but then a mystery man arrives.

Thirteen years before he won an Oscar® for Drive My Car, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi delivered this shattering Rohmerian drama as his university thesis film. An intricately knitted tale of love, friendship, and recrimination, Passion sees one of the great contemporary writer-directors emerge fully formed.

Propelled by coincidence and imagination, and guided by love's gentle current, acclaimed director Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns with an enchanting triptych that spins mundane encounters into a world of infinite possibilities.