Ryusuke Hamaguchi

ハッピーアワー

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi

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?"

偶然と想像

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima

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.

ドライブ・マイ・カー

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura

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 car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

天国はまだ遠い

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Nao Okabe, Hyunri

Yuzo, a mosaic engineer for porn videos, lives under the same roof as Mitsuki, a high school student with whom he leads a peculiar life. One day, Yuzo receives a phone call from Mitsuki's sister.

なみのおと

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Ko Sakai

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 prior to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, and makes emotional discoveries within dialogues between close-knit people including families and workmates.

Asako I & II

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Erika Karata, Masahiro Higashide

College student Asako falls in love at first sight with Baku after meeting at a photography exhibit. Romance sparks between the two but doesn't last long when Baku suddenly disappears from her life. Two years later, she spots a man that bears a striking resemblance to him. Even though it is only his physical similarities to Baku that attracted her to him, she doesn't say so and starts dating the soft-spoken young man called Ryohei.

親密さ

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Rei Hirano, Ryo Sato

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 full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.

Passion

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Aoba Kawai, Ryuta Okamoto

Here is a couple who have their wedding close at hand. In the middle of the celebration party where their friends get together, it is accidentally exposed that the prospective groom had an affair in the past.

Voices from the Waves - Shinchimachi

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Ko Sakai

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 with the directors' objective of passing on experiences of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which is inspired by the folk tale tradition of the Tohoku region.

うたうひと

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Ko Sakai

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 films The Sound of Waves and Voices from the Waves, is found in folk tales from the region. Co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke.

何食わぬ顔

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Tomo Matsui, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

The unusual, usual life and the ever wandering souls of 5 young men and women.

The Depths

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Kim Min-jun, Hoshi Ishida

Korean photographer Baehwan and gay japanese hotel employee Ryu work together on a series of photographs. Their relationship crosses uneasily between friendship and love, while they also battle their own internal scars. Their salvation comes by their photographs which helps them find the meaning of their lives.

不気味なものの肌に触れる

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Shota Sometani, Kiyohiko Shibukawa

After the death of his father, Chihiro goes to live with his older half-brother Togo and his girlfriend Satomi. Togo and Satomi greet him with open arms, but Chihiro feels loneliness. He attends his friend Naoya's interpretive dance practice-- and becomes more and more interested in Naoya's personal matters.

Voices from the Waves - Kesennuma

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Ko Sakai

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 and emotions of people, not as victims but as individuals.

Dance with OJ

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

A documentary on Japanese choreographer Osamu Jareo

遊撃

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

土屋裕樹, 工藤渉

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