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Strikes loomed large over Hollywood in 2023, as first the writers then the actors downed tools in protest, mainly over issues raised by streaming. All is now resolved (for the moment, anyway), but meanwhile the full effects of the strikes will only be felt in the first part of next year, as stalled productions leave glaring slots in the release schedules. ?

Love Life isn’t an easy film to watch, because much of it is simply so deeply sad, but it is moving and doesn’t go for neat resolutions.

As Love Life hits UK cinemas, Japanese writer-director Kōji Fukada talks about his tale of grief, loneliness, deaf culture and his enduring love of French cinema

A tragedy upends a couple’s dynamic in this elegant, sensitive drama by the director of Cannes prize-winning Harmonium

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The real drama in Koji Fukada’s humanist film is crackling behind the eyes of troubled characters

Japan’s master of outrageous tragedy on incorporating sign language into new film Love Life, complicated humans and his goal of depicting life as it is

Falling in the tradition of Japanese grief dramas, director Koji Fukada's latest is redeemed by moments of inchoate pain, worthier than the rest of it.

“Love Life” can be interpreted both as a command and a noun. Artfully, Koji Fukada, the director and writer of this sensitive film, poses many questions and…

The raw and complex contradictions each character contends with are rooted in emotions that never once ring false, and the actors bring an authenticity that transcends treacle.