Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Auteur Ryūsuke Hamaguchi is a natural cinephile. The critically acclaimed writer/director behind “Asako I & II,” “Wheel of Fortune ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than ever, it’s hard to imagine a world where evil does not exist, so it should come as no surprise that the world captured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Japanese film industry has produced dozens of directors that, over the decades, have been hailed by Japanese critics as ...

Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s new opus “Drive My Car,” one of just two Asian titles competing for the Palme d’Or this year at the Cannes Film Festival, consists of three melancholy hours of conversations, but ...

New films by Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Spain’s Pedro Almodovar will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ConsiderThis In the films of Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, pretending to be somebody else is usually the first step towards ...

Japanese auteur Ryû suke Hamaguchi adapted a roughly 40-page Haruki Murakami short story into a fully realized, seamless three-hour film, "Drive My Car." But it was much more involved than that: He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let’s get this out of the way up front: “Drive My Car,” Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s beautiful film, is nearly three hours long. As in, two ...

To stay true to the spirit of the author who inspired his Cannes competition entry, 'Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II),' the Japanese director added a stark reminder of Japan’s troubled recent history.

The "Drive My Car" and "Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy" writer/director names his favorite Criterion titles. Auteur Ryūsuke Hamaguchi is a natural cinephile. The critically acclaimed writer/director ...