RIVER

Nick Setchfield

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | 12 | Blu-ray Director Junta Yamaguchi Cast Riko Fujitani, Manami Honjô, Gôta Ishida, Yoshimasa Kondô Director Junta Yamaguchi follows Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes with another movie obsessed with that exact slice of time. But while his 2020 debut dealt in meticulous temporal logic, River proves a sweeter, more emotional tale. In a riverside inn in wintry Kyoto, guests and staff experience a seemingly endless succession of time loops, rewinding their lives in two-minute chunks while their memories remain intact. For some it’s an existential nightmare of neverending bowls of rice, while for others it’s a blessing: a despairing novelist relishes the chance to kiss goodbye to a deadline. The characters grasp their situation absurdly quickly, but that’s the gag. For the inn’s workers,…

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