Dir/scr: Ryosuke Hashiguchi. Japan. 2009. 140mins. With an odd mix of humour and poignancy, All Around Us takes the viewer through the last painful Japanese recession (1993-2001) as experienced by one ...

Charting the highs and lows of a 10-year marriage is a film subject as prosaic as a TV ad for life insurance, but in the hands of Ryosuke Hashiguchi ("Hush"), it is nothing short of transcendent. By ...

Watching recent Japanese films, I often have the feeling that their makers need an imagination injection, or simply need to get out more. It’s not just that few, especially at the commercial end of ...

“Hush!,” from writer-director-editor Ryosuke Hashiguchi, is deceptively simple yet evolves to create one surprise after another. What starts out as a story about a gay couple meeting and falling in ...

TOKYO – Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s “Three Stories of Love,” a three-part drama that grew out of an actors’ workshop project, has been named the best Japanese film of 2015 by the Kinema Junpo magazine’s 89th ...

Despite taking characters to the emotional deep end, it offers optimism as precious and fragile as the human bonds it depicts. By Maggie Lee, The Associated Press Toronto International Film Festival ...

When he turned 40, Japanese film director Ryosuke Hashiguchi realised there was something missing in his life. 'I'm a 40-year-old gay man and now is the time for me to think about how the rest of my ...

Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s Hush! quietly made its way to Cannes last year, but it may yet do brisk box office around Asia. Think of it as a reworking of Madonna’s The Next Best Thing, only better: this ...

Director Ryosuke Hashiguchi returns with his first feature-length drama in seven years since All Around Us. Its three leads are relative unknowns chosen in auditions by Hashiguchi, who wrote their ...

"Hush!" is a movie desperately in need of some editing. At 135 minutes (it feels longer), it becomes painful to watch towards the end as the audience begins to care less about the characters than they ...

Forsaking his prior gay themes, writer-director Ryosuke Hashiguchi's first feature in seven years examines a marriage between two unremarkable individuals that endures, despite no lack of potential ...