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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi was born on 16 December 1978 in Kawasaki, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Drive My Car (2021), Happy Hour (2015) and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021).
BornDecember 16, 1978
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BornDecember 16, 1978
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  • Nominated for 2 Oscars
    • 54 wins & 85 nominations total

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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi at an event for The Oscars (2022)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi at an event for The Oscars (2022)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi at an event for The Oscars (2022)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi at an event for The Oscars (2022)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi at an event for The Oscars (2022)

Known for

Drive My Car (2021)
Drive My Car
7.6
  • Director
  • 2021
Happy Hour (2015)
Happy Hour
7.6
  • Director
  • 2015
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
7.5
  • Director
  • 2021
Asako I & II (2018)
Asako I & II
7.0
  • Director
  • 2018

Credits

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Director

  • Our Apprenticeship
    • Director
    • Pre-production
    • 2023
  • Drive My Car (2021)
    Drive My Car
    • Director
    • 2021
  • Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    • Director
    • 2021
  • Asako I & II (2018)
    Asako I & II
    • Director
    • 2018
  • Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016)
    Heaven Is Still Far Away
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Happy Hour (2015)
    Happy Hour
    • Director
    • 2015
  • Utauhito (2013)
    Utauhito
    • Director
    • 2013
  • Voices from the Waves: Kesennuma (2013)
    Voices from the Waves: Kesennuma
    • Director
    • 2013
  • Voices from the Waves: Shinchimachi (2013)
    Voices from the Waves: Shinchimachi
    • Director
    • 2013
  • Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013)
    Touching the Skin of Eeriness
    • Director
    • 2013
  • The Sound of Waves (2012)
    The Sound of Waves
    • Director
    • 2012
  • Intimacies (2012)
    Intimacies
    • Director
    • 2012
  • The Depths (2010)
    The Depths
    • Director
    • 2010
  • Aoba Kawai in Eien ni kimi wo aisu (2009)
    Eien ni kimi wo aisu
    • Director
    • 2009
  • Passion (2008)
    Passion
    • Director
    • 2008
  • Solaris
    • Director
    • 2007

Writer

  • Our Apprenticeship
    • Writer
    • Pre-production
    • 2023
  • Drive My Car (2021)
    Drive My Car
    • Writer
    • 2021
  • Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    • written by
    • 2021
  • Yû Aoi in Wife of a Spy (2020)
    Wife of a Spy
    • Writer
    • 2020
  • Asako I & II (2018)
    Asako I & II
    • screenplay
    • 2018
  • Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016)
    Heaven Is Still Far Away
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Happy Hour (2015)
    Happy Hour
    • written by (as Hatano Koubou)
    • 2015
  • Intimacies (2012)
    Intimacies
    • Writer
    • 2012
  • The Depths (2010)
    The Depths
    • Writer
    • 2010
  • Passion (2008)
    Passion
    • screenplay
    • 2008
  • Solaris
    • Writer
    • 2007

Second Unit or Assistant Director

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    • first assistant director
    • Short
    • 2008
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Personal details

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  • Alternative name
    • Hatano Koubou
  • Born
    • December 16, 1978
    • Kawasaki, Japan
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Articles

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    His film Drive My Car (2021) is the first Japanese film ever to be nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture.
  • Quotes
    [press conference for Drive My Car (2021) at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival] The first time that I read Drive My Car, the short story, was in 2013. It was a friend of mine who suggested I should read it because he thought I would enjoy it. There were indeed elements which were familiar to me: drama, acting and, as the title says - Drive My Car - cars, vehicles. I think the inside of a car is a very good environment for intimate conversations; I have personal experience of this and had already explored this in other films. I think that in this film, Kafuku and Misake, in this enclosed space of the car, connect, and their relationship develops and I think their intimacy also increases, and that relationship already existed in the original short story, and I think it is at the heart of this film.

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