The best Ryuya Wakaba’s movies of 2020
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ryuya Wakaba’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Ryuya Wakaba.
All the Things We Never Said
5.6/10
Atsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa Yamada leaves his office during work hours and goes back home early. There, he witnesses his wife and an unknown man having sex, but Atsuhisa Yamada is unable to express his feelings like anger, frustration, and depression. His relationship with his wife and his friend Takeda becomes distorted.
Awake
5.9/10
Eiichi and Riku have grown up together. Their days and nights were filled with challenging one another in shogi, Japanese chess. After years of practice and enhancing one another’s shogi skills, Eiichi becomes disappointed at his failure to win against Riku. Riku has improved over the years and triumphs over Eiichi until finally, Eiichi submits to Riku’s skill and quits. Soon after, a disheartened Eiichi enrolls in college courses to live his life like a normal adult. But after failed attempts at finding friends and adjusting to his new way of life, Eiichi learns about AI programmed shogi at his new school. Reinvigorating his passion for shogi, Eiichi dedicates himself to crafting a strong shogi program with the help from a senior student. But his quest for greatness leads him down a familiar road where he once again must attempt to challenge Riku. AWAKE documents the lives of an obsessed artist, searching for one moment of triumph. Synopsis written by: Kanani Lyons
AWAKE
Eiichi wanted to become a top shogi player and attended a shogi player training center run by the Japan Shogi Association. At the training center, he could not beat Riku, who is extremely talented in the game, and Eiichi eventually gave up on becoming a shogi player. One day, Eiichi comes across an AI based shogi computer program.
