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Tributes and Retrospectives - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Festivals and Awards:

Locarno Film Festival 2015 – Best Actress (Sachie Tanak, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura); Honorable Mention (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

Crew:

Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara, Tomoyuki Takahashi
Producers: Tadashi Nohara, Hideyuki Okamoto, Satoshi Takada
Cinematography: Yoshio Kitagawa

Happy Hour

A film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

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Akari, Sakurako, Fumi and Jun, four longtime friends, believe they can trust each other. When Jun gets divorced and inexplicably disappears, the others – who until then thought they were happy in their marriages – begin to question their own lives.
  • Cast:

    Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura
  • Original Title:

    Happî awâ
  • Country:

    Japan
  • Year:

    2015
  • 317' Subtitles: PT

Festivals and Awards:

Locarno Film Festival 2015 – Best Actress (Sachie Tanak, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura); Honorable Mention (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

Crew:

Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara, Tomoyuki Takahashi
Producers: Tadashi Nohara, Hideyuki Okamoto, Satoshi Takada
Cinematography: Yoshio Kitagawa

Director

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Born in 1978 in Kanagawa, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is the most important Japanese director to emerge in recent years, a fan of a stripped-down realism that meticulously portrays the turmoil of feelings. After completing his degree in Aesthetics at the University of Tokyo in March 2003, he worked as an assistant director in film and television for three years. In March 2008, he completed a Masters in Film at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2015, he surprised audiences with Happy Hour, a film for which he won the Best Actress Award (for the ensemble of the film's actresses) and a Special Mention for Script, at the Locarno Film Festival, where the film was part of the Official Selection. He also received the Best Director Award at the Singapore Film Festival and the Best Screenplay Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Asako I & II (2018), based on the novel Netemo Sametemo by Tomoka Shibasaki, was part of the Official Selection in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Festival and Drive My Car (2021) won the Ecumenical Jury Prize, Best Screenplay Award and FIPRESCI at the Cannes Film Festival.
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