Though he’s now a profitable scriptwriter whose credit embrace “100 Yen Love,” the 2014 boxing drama that impressed the 2024 Chinese language megahit “YOLO,” Shin Adachi struggled for years to discover a foothold within the trade.
However with the backing of his spouse — whose fictionalized alter ego seems in his 2019 autobiographical comedy “A Beloved Spouse,” Adachi stayed the course. That movie’s wimpy scriptwriter, nonetheless, stirs his short-tempered spouse to righteous indignation for his lack of drive and smarts.
Adachi’s amiably loose-limbed street film “Good Luck,” which he each scripted and directed, incorporates a beginner director who’s once more an Adachi stand-in. However instead of the high-volume theatrics of “Beloved Spouse,” this movie’s drama is low-key, if not low stakes, and although its two protagonists naked their souls, they shed no tears.
