O Sentido da Vida Is the Masterpiece Ryusuke Hamaguchi Had Been Building Toward

What has Ryusuke Hamaguchi been exploring in his cinema this decade? Looking at his triad of masterpieces in the 2020s – Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021), Drive My Car (2021) and Evil Does Not Exist (2024) – it is clear that the Japanese filmmaker is interested in communication, humanism and art, among other things.