Three Stories Of Love(bc Sunday)

Love hurts, and no one understands this more than the protagonists of Three Stories of Love, director Hashiguchi Ryusuke’s long-awaited follow-up to All Around Us. Created from an actors’ workshop led by Hashiguchi, the film weaves together three quietly moving stories of heartbreak: A bridge inspector who still grieves his late wife three years after her death, a housewife longs to flee her humdrum marriage, and a gay lawyer who reunites with a man from his past. Delicately crafted and achingly humanistic, Three Stories of Love was named the best Japanese film of 2015 by Kinema Junpo, Japan’s oldest film magazine.