2013
濱口龍介的電影《睡著也好醒來也罷》改編自日本作家柴崎友香的小說，「讀到最後，必定會為朝子那不可思議的自私而吃驚吧。」記得書裡的附錄有過這麼一句評論。這部作為濱口龍介在台正式上映的第一部電影，迴響稱不上熱烈，直到東出昌大和唐田英里佳爆出不倫，這部片才在新聞裡再度被提起。而東出面對「喜歡杏還是唐田？」的地獄提問，說出了「我的想法會傷害妻子。」驚人般的誠實之語——如此看來，他實在很適合活在濱口的電影裡呀。
《說故事的人》一開始，透過鏡頭擺置的高度，觀眾仿若在一個「說故事會」（お話会）的現場就座。此時小野和子充當主持，由伊藤正子、佐藤玲子和佐佐木健三人輪流講述故事，其中還包含兩個從屬於同一個故事文本的異文（variants）。他們不互相插嘴，也不去質疑，只是輪流將故事按時間並陳。
A story is a journey, with both its beginning and end unfolding before the screen. Yet each story calls for a different way of being read—through the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, and feet. And at the end, like a white curtain of light, it’s as if a dream was gently dreamt atop a tree. Moonlight, sifted into fragments by the leaves, spills softly onto the body—only then do we realize that the self at the starting point has quietly changed… An unnamed kind of fullness.
"Everyone starts out wanting to be kind." Four best friends who once shared everything find their bond shattered by a single secret. A woman dates a man who looks exactly like her first love—until the real one, long missing, reappears. Upon discovering her friend has fallen for her ex, she abruptly turns back to find him. A recently widowed man meets a silent female chauffeur who changes the course of his grief. From Locarno to Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and the Oscars, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, hailed as the heir to Japan’s cinematic masters, gently yet unflinchingly captures stories of intimacy—at once enchanting and cruel—through his lens.
How can we remember the pain and resistance, helplessness and belief, hatred and love we once experienced in the dark of night? Night serves as a metaphor and a space for inheriting historical secrets. People act in secret during the night, hoping to open their minds and initiate new possibilities before dawn breaks. The 2023 Autumn Festival, themed "Nights in Memory," invites artists to collectively confront the echoes and inspirations brought by every night in memory. Memories purged, replaced, hidden, and questioned in those dark nights are re-told through the transformation of creative language, bringing to light overlooked, concealed, or ambiguous stories, igniting the fire of memory in the darkness. The National Theater & Concert Hall, in collaboration with Giloo, has curated the "2023 Autumn Festival" online film exhibition. Through the vertical in-depth exploration of theater and the horizontal extension of cinema, we will have the opportunity to transcend divisions and discern the significance of the nights we have experienced in our lives.