Ryūsuke Hamaguchi Movies

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping...

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...

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female...

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and...

It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her...

In the middle of the celebration party for a newlywed couple where their friends get together, its exposed that the groom had an affair in the past.

Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces...

Yuzo and Mitsuki live together in Yuzo's small apartment, their constant companionship tender and indifferent in turn. Then Yuzo receives a call from...

We follow Takumi and his daughter who lead a modest life in the village in the middle of nature. One day Takumi receives word that there are plans to...

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...

Korean photographer Bae-hwan and gay japanese hotel employee Ryu work together on a series of photographs. Their relationship crosses uneasily...

Spanning locations in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Hokkaido and featuring interviews with cast members and rare behind-the-scenes footage, it captures the...

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...

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...

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance...

Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide...

Some youths interact at a bar , a horse race and a bowling alley. A girl who has been visiting from out of town ,on her train ride back, reads aloud...

The prolific young Japanese director, who has already won an Oscar, has made a small film that celebrates the poetry and sensitivity of a gaze, thus...

A companion piece to Voices from the Waves Kesennuma that forms half of the second installment in a documentary trilogy on the Tohoku region,...

The first part of a trilogy focusing on the northeast Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Impromptu interviews were carried...