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Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Director · Born 1978-12-16 · Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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Biography

Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Hamaguchi, a graduate of Tokyo University and Tokyo University of Arts, attracted attention in his country with the movie Passion (2008), which he shot for his graduation. Hamaguchi first gained international recognition with the film Happy Hour (2015) and followed it up with Asako I & II (2018). He released two films in 2021, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car, receiving three Academy Award nominations for the latter, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature. He is the third Japanese director to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director.

Directed

  1. Drive My Car (2021) — Director
  2. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) — Director
  3. Evil Does Not Exist (2023) — Director
  4. Asako I & II (2018) — Director
  5. Happy Hour (2015) — Director
  6. Passion (2008) — Director
  7. Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016) — Director
  8. Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013) — Director
  9. Intimacies (2013) — Director
  10. The Depths (2011) — Director
  11. Like Nothing Happened (2003) — Director
  12. I Love Thee for Good (2009) — Director
  13. Solaris (2007) — Director
  14. The Sound of Waves (2012) — Director
  15. Voices from the Waves - Kesennuma (2013) — Director
  16. Voices from the Waves - Shinchimachi (2013) — Director
  17. GIFT (2023) — Director
  18. Like Nothing Happened (2003) — Director
  19. All of a Sudden (2026) — Director
  20. Beginning (2005) — Director
  21. Go to the Movies (2001) — Director
  22. Friend of the Night (2005) — Director
  23. Storytellers (2013) — Director
  24. Dance with OJ (2015) — Director
  25. Scent of Memories (2006) — Director
  26. Attack (2006) — Director
  27. Our Apprenticeship — Director
  28. Walden (2022) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Happy Hour (2015) — Yuzawa
  2. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  3. Like Nothing Happened (2003) — Hamaguchi
  4. Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car (2022) — Self
  5. Like Nothing Happened (2003)
  6. No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation (2022) — Self
  7. Le Cercle (2005) — Self