Hamaguchi Ryūsuke
HAMAGUCHI Ryūsuke (1978, Japan) received a Bachelor’s degree in Art in Aesthetics from the University of Tokyo and then studied at the Graduate School of Film and New Media. His graduation film Passion was selected for the San Sebastian film festival. After graduating in 2008, he co-directed a documentary series and made multiple fiction films. Asako I & II (2018) won the ICS Cannes Award for Best Screenplay. Drive My Car (2021) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Competition, where it won the Golden Palm for Best Screenplay. In 2023, his film Evil Does Not Exist was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and was selected for IFFR 2024.
Filmography
Solaris (2007), Passion (2008), The Depths (2010), Sound of the Waves, Voices from the Waves and Storytellers (2011-2013 doc series, co-dir), Intimacies (2012), Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013), Happy Hour (2015), Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016, short), Asako I & II (2018), Drive My Car (2021), Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
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Hamaguchi Ryūsuke at IFFR
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Evil Does Not Exist
Hamaguchi Ryusuke delivers a mesmerising, slow-burning rural fable about the many facets of genius loci.
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Asako I & II
In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.
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Happy Hour
Four thirty-something housewives in Kobe are closely bonded by friendship and trust, until one of them breaks those ties. A patient five-hour saga of