Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Known for DirectingBorn 1978-12-16 (age 47)Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Hamaguchi, a graduate of Tokyo University and Tokyo University of Arts, attracted attention in his country with the movie Passion (2008), which he shot for his graduation. Hamaguchi first gained international recognition with the film Happy Hour (2015) and followed it up with Asako I & II (2018). He released two films in 2021, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car, receiving three Academy Award nominations for the latter, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature. He is the third Japanese director to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director.Read more

Movies & web series

GIFT

Drive My Car

Happy Hour

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Voices from the Waves - Kesennuma

The Sound of Waves

Evil Does Not Exist

Asako I & II

Wife of a Spy

Like Nothing Happened

Heaven Is Still Far Away

Intimacies

The Oscars

Passion

Voices from the Waves - Shinchimachi

Like Nothing Happened

Touching the Skin of Eeriness

I Love Thee for Good

Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car

The Depths

Solaris

All of a Sudden

No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation

Dance with OJ

Storytellers

second coming

Attack

Scent of Memories

Le Cercle

Friend of the Night

Beginning

Go to the Movies

Our Apprenticeship