"Chance and Imagination") is a 2021[5] Japanese romantic drama anthology film written and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

[2][7] The film stars Kotone Furukawa, Katsuki Mori, and Fusako Urabe as the lead actresses of each of the anthology's three segments.

[2] During a taxi ride back from a photo shoot, model Meiko hears about her best friend Tsugumi's new love interest.

The student, Sasaki, is later at his apartment with his friend-with-benefits, married mother Nao, and learns from the news that Segawa has won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for a novel he has written.

As Nao reaches her stop, she gives Sasaki her business card and kisses him as she steps off the bus.

Natsuko attends her all-girls high school reunion, finding that she does not fit in nor remember her classmates' names.

Aya offers to role-play as her ex-girlfriend from 20 years ago, helping Natsuko to vent her many unresolved feelings for her old college friend.

The two hug each other recognizing that they have each been able to at least partially resolve past issues which they had previously thought had passed as unresolved with the passage of time.

The cast includes:[9] The soundtrack consists of three short pieces for solo piano by Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op.

[13] It was released in both physical and virtual cinemas in the United States and Canada from October 15, 2021, by Film Movement.

The site's critics consensus reads "Writer-director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi explores multiple facets of the human condition with Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, all to delightfully affecting effect.

"[16] On Metacritic, the film has an assigned score of 86 out of 100, based on 19 critic reviews, denoting "universal acclaim".

[17] Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was ranked fifth on Cahiers du Cinéma's top 10 films of 2022 list.