River

• Japan.
• Direction: Junta Yamaguchi.
• Production: Takahiro Otsuki / Tollywood, Europe Kikaku.
• Screenplay: Makoto Ueda.
• Photography: Kazunari Kawagoe.
• Music: Koji Takimoto.
• Edition: Junta Yamaguchi.
• Cast: Riko Fujitani, Yuki Torigoe, Munenori Nagano, Takashi Sumita, Yoshifumi Sakai, Masashi Suwa, Gota Ishida, Shiori Kubo.

Aha. It's him. Yes, Junta Yamaguchi, director of Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2021), and as spectacularly ingenious in terms of the relativity of time and space. He's at it again. With the closing film. Sensei Yamaguchi is back to show us that he is a real champion, a master, an ambitious dominator of everyday science fiction: “Mikoto works at a small inn. The day seems to be going normally: all the guests and workers each have their own concerns and everyday commitments. Feeling a little overwhelmed, she takes a break down by the river, but on her return nothing is the same: the whole inn is now trapped in a time loop of just two minutes". Yes, everything, everywhere all at once. Or maybe not.