Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Evil Does Not Exist (2023)

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature. ...

GIFT (2023)

We follow Takumi and his daughter who lead a modest life in the village in the middle of nature. One day Takumi receives word that there are plans to build a glamping site near his home. The discovery that wastewater will be piped into the village's water ...

Walden (2022)

The prolific young Japanese director, who has already won an Oscar, has made a small film that celebrates the poetry and sensitivity of a gaze, thus also connecting to many other stories of cinema. ...

Drive My Car (2021)

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his ...

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets. ...

Wife of a Spy (2020)

It's 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he's up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which ...

Asako I & II (2018)

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality. ...

Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016)

Yuzo and Mitsuki live together in Yuzo's small apartment, their constant companionship tender and indifferent in turn. Then Yuzo receives a call from Satsuki, a documentarian resolved to make a film about a now-distant family tragedy, and the three meet, t ...

Happy Hour (2015)

Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want to be? ...

Dance with OJ (2015)

A documentary on Japanese choreographer Osamu Jareo ...

Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013)

After his parents die, a teenager goes to live with his older brother. As his loneliness grows, he becomes engrossed in practicing modern dance with his classmate. ...

Storytellers (2013)

The third part of a trilogy focusing on the Tohoku region that is comprised of dialogues with victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Ideas on how to share experiences of the disaster with future generations, a challenge touched upon in the previous fi ...

Voices from the Waves - Shinchimachi (2013)

A companion piece to Voices from the Waves Kesennuma that forms half of the second installment in a documentary trilogy on the Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. It captures dialogues between closely-linked people in accordance w ...

Voices from the Waves - Kesennuma (2013)

A companion piece to Voices from the Waves Shinchimachi that forms half of the second installment in a documentary trilogy on the Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Through numerous interviews, they concentrate on the experiences ...

Intimacies (2013)

Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual fu ...

The Sound of Waves (2012)

The first part of a trilogy focusing on the northeast Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Impromptu interviews were carried out with disaster victims mainly along the Sanriku Coast, which had been ravaged by tsunamis several times ...

The Depths (2011)

After a failed wedding shoot, Bae-hwan meets Ryu—a callboy tangled in a murder case—and offers him a way out. ...

I Love Thee for Good (2009)

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can't tell her fiance... ...

second coming (2008)

Mari's quiet everyday life falls apart when she meets a mysterious boy. Her uncle returns after a long absence and tells her that earth is under alien control and that Mari is half human and half alien, while the strange boy confesses that he is trying to ...

Passion (2008)

A young couple's announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone to reflect on their lives. ...

Solaris (2007)

Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist. ...

Attack (2006)

A short film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi when he was at Tokyo University of the Arts. ...

Scent of Memories (2006)

A short film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, about a story between a man and a strange girl. ...

Friend of the Night (2005)

When returning from a wedding, friends talk about their fears. ...

Beginning (2005)

On a country road, a young girl meets her classmates. ...

Like Nothing Happened (2003)

Some youths interact at a bar, a horse race and a bowling alley. A girl who has been visiting from out of town ,on her train ride back, reads aloud a list of vocabulary definitions from a dictionary. ...

Like Nothing Happened (2003)

A maiden work by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and the origin to his later masterpieces "Passion" (2008), the 255 minute long "Intimacies" (2012), and the 317 minute long "Happy Hour" (2015). The unusual, usual life and the ever wandering souls of 5 young men and wom ...

Go to the Movies (2001)

Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car (2022)

Spanning locations in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Hokkaido and featuring interviews with cast members and rare behind-the-scenes footage, it captures the creative collective journey of the filmmaking team. ...

Happy Hour (2015)

Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want to be? ...

Like Nothing Happened (2003)

Some youths interact at a bar, a horse race and a bowling alley. A girl who has been visiting from out of town ,on her train ride back, reads aloud a list of vocabulary definitions from a dictionary. ...

Like Nothing Happened (2003)

A maiden work by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and the origin to his later masterpieces "Passion" (2008), the 255 minute long "Intimacies" (2012), and the 317 minute long "Happy Hour" (2015). The unusual, usual life and the ever wandering souls of 5 young men and wom ...