The popular Japanese writer Murakami Haruki collaborated with the emerging director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi in the film Aku wa sonzai shinai - Evil Does Not Exist, presented at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. Is there a communion between the spiritual genre and magical naturalism in the film?

In a small village in a mountainous area of Japan, life proceeds peacefully, outwardly happy, with strong human relationships, sincere friendship, simple gestures, healthy food, very fresh water. Around there is an intense, vigorous nature, snow, trees, streams. Inhabitants and nature coexist peacefully, without attacking each other.

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