Ryusuke Hamaguchi News Today

In March, film buffs in Paris descended on the Maison de la Culture du Japon for the final installment of a Japanese movie series about a traveling salesman who is unlucky in love that had run for decades in its homeland.

A24 and Neon haven't gone anywhere, but the buyers making a splash at Cannes this year are emerging players like Sideshow, Metrograph, and Mubi.

The film just premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes and will screen in competition at Annecy next month.

Japanese director Yoko Yamanakas Desert of Namibia won an award from the International Federation of Film Critics at the Cannes Film Festival.

Neon's 'Babes' with Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau had a great expansion with the indie film in the top ten at the domestic box office.

Yoko Yamanakas Desert of Namibia, featured in the Directors Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival, won the FIPRESCI Prize on Saturday, a prestigious independent award given by film critics.

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the North American rights to Alain Guiraudie's "Misericordia" out of the Cannes Film Festival.

Evil Does Not Exist Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 2021 film, Drive My Car, was an absolute smash hit that year, garnering two Academy Award nominations and over $15 million at the global box office, which is impressive for a quiet three-hour movie about the futility of self-acceptance and the eternal investment of regret. Hamaguchi has always had a flair for the elaborate and an obsession with the self. He creates characters that are at once wholly relatable and still dramatically detached. His new fi...

A look at movies playing Lincoln theaters.

Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has crafted a lingering, intimately observed drama about a village threatened by a glamping development project.