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 ...

Hamaguchi utilizes the same approach with his casts. The effect that “Drive My Car” spawns, he believes, starts with his and his actors’ connection within.

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi takes the title literally for a three-hour demonstration of bourgeois alienation. Japanese theater doyen Yusuke (Hidetoshi Nishijima), seen performing Waiting for Godot ...

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.

LOS ANGELES--Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi was clearly over the moon after winning the Oscar for best international feature film for his movie “Drive My Car,” but said he hoped the ...

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has returned to Japan from the Venice International Film Festival where he won the Silver Lion award for his film “Evil Does Not Exist.” Hamaguchi is the second ...

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 ...