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Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Name in Native Language: "濱口竜介" (Japanese/JA)
Film Director / Screenwriter | * 12/16/1978 (45) | Kanagawa, Japan (Japan)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (濱口 竜介, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, [hamaꜜɡɯtɕi ɾʲɯꜜːsɯ̥ke] ; born 16 December 1978) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. An alumnus of the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he started gaining attention in his home country with the graduate film PASSION (2008). Hamaguchi first gained international recognition with the film Happy Hour (2015) and continued with Asako I & II (2018). In 2021, he released two films, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car; for the latter he received two Academy Awards nominations, for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He is the third Japanese director to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. ()
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japanese: 濱口 竜介, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke; born 16 December 1978; Kanagawa) is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter.After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Hamaguchi worked in the commercial film industry for a few years before entering the graduate program in film at Tokyo University of the Arts. His graduation film "Passion" (2008) was selected for the competition of the 2008 Tokyo Filmex. With Kō Sakai, he made a three-part documentary "The Sound of Waves" (2012) about survivors of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, with "Voices from the Waves" (2013) being selected for the competition at the 2013 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and "Storytellers" (2013) winning the Sky Perfect IDEHA Prize. His next film "Happy Hour" (2015) was first developed while Hamaguchi was an artist in residence at KIITO Design and Creative Center Kobe in 2013. His "Asako I & II" (2018) was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. His "Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy" (2021) was selected to compete at the 2021 Berlinale. And his "Drive My Car" (2021) was in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, won the prize for best screenplay and was selected and later nominated as the Japanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards; the film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Hamaguchi said: "I was just purely a cinephile, conventionally in love with Hollywood films—Tarantino, Wong Kar-wai, things called mini theater films in Japan. But after I went to this film club in college and the cinephile culture just poured right in. I think the biggest incentive for me to becoming a director was watching Cassavetes.".

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Romance / Love

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Awards & Nominations for Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Mainichi Film Award for Best Director Chevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Best Director
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Movies with Ryusuke Hamaguchi as Actor(2)

as Yuzawa2015 Happy Hour

Movies with Ryusuke Hamaguchi as Crew(33)

Directing/Director2023 Evil Does Not Exist
Editing/Editor2023 Evil Does Not Exist
Writing/Writer2023 Evil Does Not Exist
Directing/Director2021 Drive My Car
Writing/Screenplay2021 Drive My Car
Directing/Director2021 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Writing/Writer2021 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Writing/Writer2020 Wife of a Spy
Directing/Director2018 Asako I & II
Writing/Screenplay2018 Asako I & II
Directing/Director2016 Heaven Is Still Far Away
Editing/Editor2016 Heaven Is Still Far Away
Writing/Writer2016 Heaven Is Still Far Away
Directing/Director2015 Happy Hour
Writing/Writer2015 Happy Hour
Directing/Director2013 Voices from the Waves - Kesennuma
Directing/Director2013 Storytellers
Directing/Director2013 Touching the Skin of Eeriness
Production/Producer2013 Touching the Skin of Eeriness
Directing/Director2012 The Sound of Waves
Directing/Director2012 Intimacies
Writing/Screenplay2012 Intimacies
Directing/Director2010 The Depths
Writing/Writer2010 The Depths
Directing/Director2008 PASSION
Writing/Writer2008 PASSION
Directing/Assistant Director2008 second coming
Directing/Director2007 Solaris
Writing/Writer2007 Solaris
Directing/Director2003 Like Nothing Happened
Editing/Editor2003 Like Nothing Happened
Writing/Writer2003 Like Nothing Happened

Additional Information

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Full Name: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Saturday, 12/16 1978 (December) in Kanagawa, Japan (Japan) (current age: 45 years + 103 days)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: Japanese (JA, native language)
Educated at: University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of the Arts
Other names for Ryusuke Hamaguchi (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"濱口竜介"
"Ryûsuke Hamaguchi"
"Ryuusuke Hamaguchi"
"Ryūsuke Hamaguchi"
"濱口 竜介"
"Rjusuke Hamaguči"
"Рюсукэ Хамагути"
"滨口龙介"
"하마구치 류스케"
"はまぐち りゅうすけ" (Kana/Japanese)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi frequently works together with these people:
Yoshio Kitagawa (7x, Crew)
Hideyuki Okamoto (6x, Crew)
Kiyohiko Shibukawa (4x, Actor)
Ko Sakai (4x, Crew)
Izumi Matsuno (4x, Crew)
Tadashi Nohara (4x, Crew)
Yasuyuki Sasaki (4x, Crew)
Fusako Urabe (3x, Actress)
Toru Takano (3x, Crew)
Azusa Yamazaki (3x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:286222, Added: 08/10/2018, Last updated: 02/28/2024