Hamaguchi says this process affords him greater objectivity. "I do my best to observe what we are shooting, but what I can say from my 20 years of making films is that I really cannot trust what I ...

The excavation of ruins of the last castle built by the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is being hailed as the greatest discovery in Japan of this century. While there have been references in the ...

OSAKA--A life-size wooden statue of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been discovered at Omiyajinja shrine here, providing a clue to how people worshipped him during his successor's era.

KYOTO--Researchers here unearthed the stone foundations of a castle erected by 16th century warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi that earned the moniker “fabled castle” because it was destroyed in an ...

VENICE--Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi felt he needed a break after promoting two back-to-back hits, so he vanished into the Japanese countryside to make a new movie, “Evil Does Not Exist”, which ...

LOS ANGELES--Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” picked up a golden passenger on March 27, bringing home the Oscar for best international feature film at the 2022 Academy ...

CANNES, France--Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi and scriptwriter Takamasa Oe won the Best Screenplay Award for their movie “Drive My Car” at the Cannes International Film Festival, a first for a ...