Japan America Society of Southern California

   Building Japan-America Relationships Since 1909

  • Home
  • MA in Japanese Film with Award-Winning Film Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi

MA in Japanese Film with Award-Winning Film Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi

  • Tuesday, February 01, 2022
  • 5:00 PM
  • Virtual


WEBINAR

MA in Japanese Film

with Award-Winning Film Director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

5:00-6:15 PM (PST)

Watch the trailer here!

The fourth and final webinar in the Rethinking of MA Webinar Series will examine the role of MA in Japanese film. Our guest will be filmmaker Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, whose film Drive My Car, is Japan’s official entry for Best International Feature Film for Academy Awards 2022 and is now on the Oscars shortlist for this category. Hamaguchi, a renowned director and screenwriter who first gained attention for The Sound of Waves and Voices from Waves, his thoughtful documentaries (co-directed by Ko Sakai) about survivors of the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake, as well as several recent dramatic full-length feature films, pays close attention to timing, pacing and “space” in his films.

Hamaguchi’s film Drive My Car is generating substantial international acclaim, including being voted Best Picture of 2021 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and chosen by President Obama as one of his favorite films of 2021. In a December 3rd review in the Los Angeles Times, film critic Mark Olsen, wrote of Hamaguchi’s emotional pacing in Drive My Car, “He keeps tears and drama in check, letting emotion seep in after the heavy blow and in the meaningful silences which, like the negative space of a painting, complete the picture.”

Hamaguchi will join Professors Hitoshi Abe of UCLA and Ken Oshima of Washington University, hosts of the Rethinking of MA series, in an engaging conversation exploring the role of MA in the making of his most recent film Drive My Car, with reference also to some of his earlier works. The webinar will conclude with an audience Q&A.


For details on this event, please visit:
Japan House Los Angeles

Follow Japan House at:

Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

©2020 Japan America Society of Southern California
1411 W. 190th Street, Suite 360, Gardena, CA 90248

tel (310) 965-9050    fax (310) 965-9010   email info@jas-socal.org

Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software