Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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).
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 54 wins & 85 nominations total
Known for
Credits
Director
- 2023
- Drive My Car
- Director
- 2021
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
- Director
- 2021
- Asako I & II
- Director
- 2018
- 2016
- Happy Hour
- Director
- 2015
- Utauhito
- Director
- 2013
- Voices from the Waves: Kesennuma
- Director
- 2013
- 2013
- Touching the Skin of Eeriness
- Director
- 2013
- The Sound of Waves
- Director
- 2012
- Intimacies
- Director
- 2012
- The Depths
- Director
- 2010
- Eien ni kimi wo aisu
- Director
- 2009
- Passion
- Director
- 2008
- Solaris
- Director
- 2007
Writer
- 2023
- Drive My Car
- Writer
- 2021
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
- written by
- 2021
- Wife of a Spy
- Writer
- 2020
- Asako I & II
- screenplay
- 2018
- 2016
- Happy Hour
- written by (as Hatano Koubou)
- 2015
- Intimacies
- Writer
- 2012
- The Depths
- Writer
- 2010
- Passion
- screenplay
- 2008
- Solaris
- Writer
- 2007
Second Unit or Assistant Director
Personal details
- Alternative name
- Hatano Koubou
- Born
- Publicity listings
Did you know
- TriviaHis 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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