Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. An alumnus of the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he started gaining attention in his home country with the graduate film Passion. Hamaguchi first gained international recognition with the film Happy Hour and continued with Asako I& II. In 2021, he released two films, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car; for the latter, he received Academy Awards nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, and accepted the award for Best International Feature Film.