EYES ON JAPAN 2025: Evil Does Not Exist

In the organizer's words:

Japan 2023; 106'; OVD; DCP, BD; FSK: 12; Director and screenplay: HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke; Director of photography: KITAGAWA Yoshio; Cast: OMIKA Hitoshi, NISHIKAWA Ryo, KOSAKA Ryuji, SHIBUTANI Ayaka, KIKUCHI Hazuki, MIURA Hiroyuki and others.

Following his Oscar-winning film DRIVE MY CAR, director HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke now turns his attention to the relationship between man and nature in EVIL DOES NOT EXIST: Takumi and his daughter Hana lead a modest village life in harmony with nature near Tokyo. The village peace is disturbed when a company wants to build a glamping facility nearby. When the ecological consequences of the project become clear and the luxury campsite meets with disapproval from the local residents, the company sends two representatives to the village to calm things down. But instead, the conflict escalates.

On 25.01. at the Haus der Universität, followed by an expert discussion with Prof. Dr. Annette Schad-Seifert (Institute for Modern Japan, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).

Price information:

Tickets (max. 2 tickets per person) can be collected from 11:00 a.m. on the day of the event at the box office of the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf's Black Box cinema (no pre-registration). For events at the Haus der Universität, tickets will be issued half an hour before the start of the event at the venue (no pre-registration).