Four Favorites with Ryusuke Hamaguchi

[@maciek8159]

Cassavette's Chinese Bookie is totally underrated. Ben Gazzara was having difficulty relating to his character Cosmo and Cassavettes put down the camera and said "Don't you get it? There are people out in this world who just want to take over and intervene and ruin your dreams" the mafia in the film represent Hollywood studios who always try to take control of an artist's work (especially Cassavettes) to commercialize it and make it more mainstream. John Cassavettes started to cry explaining this to Gazzara and Ben immediately understood Cosmo was Cassavettes.

[@DesiranKehendak]

Wow

[@aninjaguardian]

I've been enamored by Hamaguchi since 2021 when he released both Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car. I've gone out of my way to try and watch all of his narrative fiction features and he's definitely an amazing auteur director

[@ssssssstssssssss]

Did you catch Wife of a Spy? It was a collaboration between him and Kiyoshi Kurosawa and another one of Kurosawa's apprentices.

[@hoilam5239]

Please don’t miss his 5-hour long feature film “happy hour”. A masterpiece!

[@Aneesaliaqat]

Ok kk

[@macccgaming]

should definitely check out Heaven is Still Far Away if you haven't yet

[@seanmclaggin6775]

Goddamn this is the best top four out of any of these vids thus far haha. And I haven’t seen any of this man’s films yet!! 😅

[@renk6178]

Passion by Hamaguchi is truly one of the best films I’ve seen. Made me tear up not cuz the story is sad or anything but for its pure beauty!

[@ssssssstssssssss]

To think that it was a student project makes it even more impressive. Granted, he still was able to get solid professional actors.

[@renk6178]

@@ssssssstssssssssi agree!

[@HManoukhian]

Great Films, Ryusuke!

[@mikelpelaez]

Spirit of the beehive is one of the few things that make me proud of being spanish

[@jandoering4132]

Why are there only few?

[@砂糖市-d6q]

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra too. You guys awesome!!

[@christopherpaul7588]

@@砂糖市-d6q Exactly! What about the great art? Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Picasso? I love Spanish food, cinema, and Madrid is my favorite city in the world. :)

[@bobvillainy]

THE GOAT

[@AlejandroPikoulasPlata]

I expected these wonderful picks from this stunning director :)

[@christopherpaul7588]

I love the Spirit of the Beehive!!! So happy to see such a beautiful lesser-known foreign film reach people.

[@thedivination]

Douglas Sirk? Oh we have to stan.

[@drtfx7]

Asako I & II is a masterpiece

[@Luca0326]

Great advice for a great director!😉

[@magicknight13]

Great picks!! Very insightful

[@whispersfilm]

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is Cassavetes' best film, which means it's also one of the best films of all time!

[@gutterbaby8382]

Hamaguchi is one of our best living directors. I can't wait to see Evil Does Not Exist.

[@CherryFilms7]

No surprise that Hamaguchi has great taste

[@videonlyn]

So classy

[@BrianDePalmaII]

Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Written on the Wind are pretty underrated imo. Glad to see them recognized by such a great director!

[@nl3064]

Maybe under-seen, but not underrated. They're perfectly well-respected by hardcore film buffs. All four of these picks have been included among the '1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.'

[@BrianDePalmaII]

@@nl3064 Kinda meant underrated in the sense of how they're looked at in their director's filmmography. Both Chinese and Husbands I think aren't often looked at with as high of regard as some of Cassavete's other features but I think they're perhaps better than them. Same with Written on the Wind, it's about on par with something like Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Do agree though, probably more overlooked than underrated especially if you were to take this outside the film buff community.

[@user-db6ov7nn4x]

Thank you Hamaguchi-san.

[@troyh2784]

GOAT

[@sicoles]

Qué bien que a Hamaguchi le guste El espíritu de la colmena; por el par de pelis suyas que he visto, diría que tiene mucho sentido

[@drewmcgill5290]

Based

[@nl3064]

Of all these Letterboxed vids, this is one of the best. All solid choices, even the ones I don't like are at least respectable. And Spirit of the Beehive is great; I watched it a few times. Fun fact: Spirit of the Beehive was supposedly one of Stanley Kubrick's fav's as well.

[@T2153-d3z]

I wish English subtitles was better, his words are precisely chosen and these translations lost its nuances😢 At the end of this video he said “I think it’s a nice experience to devastate beautifully through watching these films” kinda thing…

[@lkmeo3756]

TRUE

[@gabiocampos]

TASTE

[@leonardo724]

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