RyÅ«suke Hamaguchi (æ¿±å £ 竜介, Hamaguchi RyÅ«suke, born 16
December 1978, in Kanagawa) is a Japanese film director and
screenwriter.After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Hamaguchi
worked in the commercial film industry for a few years before entering
the graduate program in film at Tokyo University of the Arts. His
graduation film Passion was selected for the competition of the 2008
Tokyo Filmex. With KÅ Sakai, he made a three-part documentary about
survivors of the 2011 TÅ hoku earthquake and tsunami, with Voices from
the Waves being selected for the competition at the 2013 Yamagata
International Documentary Film Festival, and Storytellers winning the
Sky Perfect IDEHA Prize. His next film Happy Hour was first developed
while Hamaguchi was an artist in residence at KIITO Design and
Creative Center Kobe in 2013. It came out of an improvisational acting
workshop he held for non-professionals, with many of the film's
performers having participated in the workshop. The four lead
actresses shared the best actress award and the film earned a special
mention for its script at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival. Hamaguchi
was also given a special jury award at the 2016 Japan Movie Critic
Awards, as well as a best newcomer award in the film division of the
Agency for Cultural Affairs's Geijutsu Sensho Awards that year. His
Asako I & II was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018
Cannes Film Festival.In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine,
Hamaguchi said: "I was just purely a cinephile, conventionally in love
with Hollywood filmsâ€"Tarantino, Wong Kar-wai, things called mini
theater films in Japan. But after I went to this film club in college
and the cinephile culture just poured right in. I think the biggest
inception for me to becoming a director was watching Cassavetes."
December 1978, in Kanagawa) is a Japanese film director and
screenwriter.After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Hamaguchi
worked in the commercial film industry for a few years before entering
the graduate program in film at Tokyo University of the Arts. His
graduation film Passion was selected for the competition of the 2008
Tokyo Filmex. With KÅ Sakai, he made a three-part documentary about
survivors of the 2011 TÅ hoku earthquake and tsunami, with Voices from
the Waves being selected for the competition at the 2013 Yamagata
International Documentary Film Festival, and Storytellers winning the
Sky Perfect IDEHA Prize. His next film Happy Hour was first developed
while Hamaguchi was an artist in residence at KIITO Design and
Creative Center Kobe in 2013. It came out of an improvisational acting
workshop he held for non-professionals, with many of the film's
performers having participated in the workshop. The four lead
actresses shared the best actress award and the film earned a special
mention for its script at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival. Hamaguchi
was also given a special jury award at the 2016 Japan Movie Critic
Awards, as well as a best newcomer award in the film division of the
Agency for Cultural Affairs's Geijutsu Sensho Awards that year. His
Asako I & II was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018
Cannes Film Festival.In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine,
Hamaguchi said: "I was just purely a cinephile, conventionally in love
with Hollywood filmsâ€"Tarantino, Wong Kar-wai, things called mini
theater films in Japan. But after I went to this film club in college
and the cinephile culture just poured right in. I think the biggest
inception for me to becoming a director was watching Cassavetes."
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