Evil Does Not Exist (2023) on Netflix
Takumi and Hana, his daughter, live in Mizubiki, a mountain village near Tokyo. Developers plan a glamping site, and the residents warn that sewage would reach the wells they draw from.
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- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb7.0/1013,735 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes91%
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Plot summary
A widower, Takumi, cuts firewood and fills jugs at a forest stream in Mizubiki, a mountain settlement outside Tokyo, where he raises his daughter Hana, aged eight. The village holds a meeting with two representatives, Takahashi and Mayuzumi, who present their employer's plan for a glamping site meant to give city dwellers a taste of nature. One resident after another objects: the proposed septic tank is too small, they say, so waste would contaminate the groundwater they draw from their wells. They accuse the company of thinking only of profit and of rushing to claim pandemic subsidies before the money runs out. Takahashi and Mayuzumi carry the villagers' concerns back to their employer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
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- Ryusuke Hamaguchi's film began as a 30-minute short accompanied by a live score composed by Eiko Ishibashi, before he decided to turn it into a feature film with dialogue.
- Cinematographer Yoshio Kitagawa shot on a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 with older Nikon lenses, whose graininess colorist Ryota Kobayashi liked; scenes were lit mainly by natural light to simulate Kodak Portra 400 film.
- Hamaguchi built the film's village as a composite of several real villages he visited during extensive research, and credits that research with letting him write the script quickly in about a week.
