Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A documentary on Japanese choreographer Osamu Jareo

After his parents die, a teenager goes to live with his older brother. As his loneliness grows, he becomes engrossed in practicing modern dance ...

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 ...

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

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

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

After a failed wedding shoot, Bae-hwan meets Ryu—a callboy tangled in a murder case—and offers him a way out.

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

Mari’s quiet everyday life falls apart when she meets a mysterious boy. Her uncle returns after a long absence and tells her that earth is ...

A young couple’s announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces ...

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 ...

A short film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, about a story between a man and a strange girl.

A short film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi when he was at Tokyo University of the Arts.

When returning from a wedding, friends talk about their fears.

On a country road, a young girl meets her classmates.

A maiden work by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and the origin to his later masterpieces “Passion” (2008), the 255 minute long “Intimacies” (2012), and the ...

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 ...