ASAKO I & II 
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY 
DRIVE MY CAR 
Barack Obama continued his annual tradition of posting his favorite movies of the year by selecting 17 standout titles from 2022. "I saw some great movies this year," the former president posted on social media. "Here are some of my favorites. What did I miss?"Obama's list includes top awards contenders such as "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Everything Everywhere All at Once," but it's also heavy on international movies such as Park Chan-wook's "Decision to Leave," Celine Sciamma's "Petite Maman" and...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Ryusuke
Hamaguchi
Hamaguchi became an unlikely cinematic sensation with “Drive My Car,” a three-hour movie about sexual infidelity, love and loss centering on an actor-director (Hidetoshi Nishijima) mounting a multilingual production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in Hiroshima who’s assigned a young female driver (Tôko Miura) to ferry him about town. It garnered four Oscar nominations in 2022, including best director and best adapted screenplay nods for Hamaguchi and Japan’s first ever for best picture, winning for best international feature. As long as that film is,
it’s short compared with his 2015 international breakthrough “Passion,” a five-hour-plus drama influenced by the improvisational naturalism of director John Cassavetes. In 2021, he released “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” a relatively short (two-hour) drama partially shot on a
pandemic-mandated break while making “Drive My Car.”