Fusako Urabe

A mute Japanese girl expresses herself with her own style of dance, finding beauty in ordinary things and her bestie – but then a mystery man arrives.

Thirteen years before he won an Oscar® for Drive My Car, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi delivered this shattering Rohmerian drama as his university thesis film. An intricately knitted tale of love, friendship, and recrimination, Passion sees one of the great contemporary writer-directors emerge fully formed.

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding. The characters at the heart of these three stories combine into a telling exploration into the complexities of relationships, told through coincidences that happen to women in love.