Age: 47
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Hamaguchi, a graduate of Tokyo University and Tokyo University of Arts, attracted attention in his country with the movie Passion (2008), which he shot for his graduation. Hamaguchi first gained international recognition with the film Happy Hour (2015) and followed it up with Asako I & II (2018). He released two films in 2021, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car, receiving three Academy Award nominations for the latter, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature. He is the third Japanese director to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director.
In August 2025, just before the 80th anniversary of VJ Day at the end of World War II. The new horror film Hiroshima (Japanese: 広島, Hepburn: Hiroshima) has shared some thematic similarities with 28 Days Later (2002) and Overlord (2018), such as a viral outbreak and a post-apocalyptic setting in Japan during World War II before the unconditional surrender in August 1945. As the Japanese portray the devastating consequences of the bombing, including the immense loss of life and the long-lasting effects of radiation which will be sold to America with $ million to purchase for the American film company like Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures to feature the very first non-English language film since Drive My Car and Parasite, which will set in Hiroshima, Japan nearing the end of the Second World War with the Atomic Bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" dropped on the city, killing 140,000 people.
