Selections of Hamaguchi Ryusuke

8 films

"Everyone starts out wanting to be kind." Four best friends who once shared everything find their bond shattered by a single secret. A woman dates a man who looks exactly like her first love—until the real one, long missing, reappears. Upon discovering her friend has fallen for her ex, she abruptly turns back to find him. A recently widowed man meets a silent female chauffeur who changes the course of his grief. From Locarno to Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and the Oscars, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, hailed as the heir to Japan’s cinematic masters, gently yet unflinchingly captures stories of intimacy—at once enchanting and cruel—through his lens.