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Ryüsuke Hamaguchi
Japan
director
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Biography
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi holds a master’s degree in cinema and directed his first film, Passion, in 2008. In 2010, The Depths was a great success and was screened at the TOKYO FILMeX. In 2015, Senses, which lasts over five hours, won two awards at the Locarno Festival. Hamaguchi’s reputation abroad was greatly boosted. In 2018, Asako I & II competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The same fate befell Drive my car in 2021, which won Best Screenplay at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
Filmography
- Our Apprenticeship 2023
- Evil Does Not Exist 2023
- Drive My Car 2021