Direction: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Hiromi Demura · Rira Kawamura · Sachie Tanaka · Maiko Mihara

Synopsis Kobe, Japan. Four women. All in their 30s. Three married, one divorcee. They are able to tell each other anything. Or at least they thought. Jun, Akari, Sakurako and Fumi truly believe that they can confide in each other. But...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Kotone Furukawa · Ayumu Nakajima · Hyunri · Katsuki Mori

Synopsis An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Hidetoshi Nishijima · Tôko Miura · Reika Kirishima · Sonia Yuan

Synopsis Nishijima Hidetoshi as a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day the wife disappears.

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Nao Okabe · Anne Ogawa

Synopsis 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.

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Masahiro Higashide · Erika Karata · Atsushi Kaneshige · Kôji Seto

Synopsis Asako is a 21-year-old woman, living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and she meets Ryohei. He looks just like...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Hitoshi Omika · Ryo Nishikawa · Ryuji Kosaka · Hazuki Kikuchi

Synopsis Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Aoba Kawai · Ryuta Okamoto · Fusako Urabe · Nao Okabe

Synopsis 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. That night, the...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Ko Sakai

Synopsis This documentary is a continuation of The Sound of the Waves, which was produced in 2011. With Kesennuma, it forms half of the second installment in a trilogy on the Tohoku region. It consists of interviews with survivors of the...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Kou Sakai

Synopsis March 11th, 2011, a huge earthquake followed by a giant tsunami strikes the coastal regions of Tohoku in Japan. Starting in the district of Taro, the two directors drive south along the coast listening to the inhabitants that live in...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Hoshi Ishida · Aoba Kawai · Ayumi Mizukoshi · Jun Murakami

Synopsis 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 becomes interested in Naoya’s dance practice, but a...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Synopsis 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...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Ko Sakai

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Rio Kanno · Aoba Kawai · Nao Okabe · Hikohiko Sugiyama

Synopsis Nagako and Seiichi are a couple about to get married. However, Nagako has a "secret" that prevents her from affixing her seal to the marriage certificate even on the wedding day.

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Ko Sakai

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Kou Sakai

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Kim Min-jun · Hoshi Ishida · Sohee Park

Synopsis Be-hwan is a famous Korean fashion photographer visiting Japan at the request of his friend Gil-su. Ryu is a male escort who visits Gil-su's studio to take new image shots for upload to a website featuring male prostitutes. While working...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Kenji Matsuda · Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Synopsis 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 appeared suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar...

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Ryūsuke Hamaguchi · Tomo Matsui · Hideyuki Okamoto · Ikuko Endo

Synopsis A maiden work by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and the origin to his later masterpieces “PASSION” (08), and the 255 min long “Intimacies” (12). The unusual, usual life and the ever wandering souls of 5 young men and women, captured in 8mm...