Heaven Is Still Far Away(2016)
Yuzo, a mosaic engineer for porn videos, lives under the same roof as Mitsuki, a high school student with whom he leads a peculiar life. One day, Yuzo receives a phone call from Mitsuki's sister.
Cast: Nao Okabe, Anne Ogawa, Hyunri
Like Nothing Happened(2003)
Some youths interact at a bar, a horse race and a bowling alley. A girl who has been visiting from out of town, on her train ride back, reads aloud a list of vocabulary definitions from a dictionary.
Cast: Hideyuki Okamoto,Tomo Matsui, Ikuko Endo
 | About the Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi was born in Japan in 1978. In 2008, Passion, his master’s degree graduate work from Tokyo University of Arts, was selected at the San Sebastián Interna-tional Film Festival and Tokyo Filmex. In 2015, his award-winning film Happy Hour prem-iered at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival. In 2021, Wheel of Fortune and Fan-tasy won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 71st Berlinale. At the 74th edition of Cannes, Drive My Car won the Screenplay Prize and three independent prizes, including FIPRESCI. The following year it received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. | |