Directing
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Titles
- 31movies2TV shows
- Career
Active from 2001 to 2026, busiest in 2013 with 5 main titles.
- Directed
- 27titles as director
- Average score
71/100
- Highest rated
Happy Hour87/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 8 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Melancholy7.4average 4.7
- Contemporary Realism7.9average 5.3
- Psychological7.3average 5.6
- Social Commentary6.5average 4.9
- Family Dynamics6.1average 4.7
- Pathos6.6average 5.2
- Romance5.1average 3.8
- Catharsis6.0average 5.1
Rarely in their work
- Adrenaline1.9, average 5.0
- Violence1.8, average 4.3
- Crime1.3, average 3.7
- Scare1.0, average 2.6
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Character Study 4
- Character-Driven 4
- Japanese Cinema 3
- Relationship Drama 3
- Melancholic 3
- Psychological Drama 2
- Slow Burn 2
- Dialogue-Heavy 2
- Meditative Drama 2
- Mystery 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Yoshio KitagawaCinematographerEvil Does Not Exist, Happy Hour, Heaven Is Still Far Away, Intimacies, The Sound of Waves, +2 more- AAzusa YamazakiEditorDrive My Car, All of a Sudden, Evil Does Not Exist, Asako I & II, I Love Thee for Good
- KKo SakaiDirectorThe Sound of Waves, Voices from the Waves - Shinchimachi, Voices from the Waves - Kesennuma, Storytellers
Hazuki KikuchiActorEvil Does Not Exist, Happy Hour, GIFT- HHiroyuki MiuraActorEvil Does Not Exist, Happy Hour, GIFT
Kiyohiko ShibukawaActorWheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Passion, Touching the Skin of Eeriness
Nao OkabeActorPassion, Heaven Is Still Far Away, I Love Thee for Good
Aoba KawaiActorWheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Passion, I Love Thee for Good
Hideyuki OkamotoActorIntimacies, I Love Thee for Good, Like Nothing Happened
HyunriActorWheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Wife of a Spy, Heaven Is Still Far Away
Hitoshi OmikaActorWheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Evil Does Not Exist, GIFT- YYasuyuki SasakiCinematographerAsako I & II, Touching the Skin of Eeriness, Storytellers
Movies and TV shows
202020s
6 titles · average score 79
72
All of a Sudden (2026)
Screenplay, Director
78
Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
Director, Editor
GIFT (2023)
Writer, Director
85
Drive My Car (2021)
Screenplay, Director
84
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
Writer, Director
74
Wife of a Spy (2020)
Screenplay
2010s
9 titles · average score 71
71
Asako I & II (2018)
Director, Screenplay
69
Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016)
Writer, Director
87
Happy Hour (2015)
as Yuzawa
60
Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013)
Director, Producer
68
Intimacies (2013)
Director, Screenplay
Storytellers (2013)
Director
The Sound of Waves (2012)
Director
2000s
5 titles
I Love Thee for Good (2009)
Director
Attack (2006)
Director
Beginning (2005)
Screenplay, Director
Like Nothing Happened (2003)
as Hamaguchi
Like Nothing Happened (2003)
Editor, Writer