Red Star News reporter was informed today (November 6) that the "Night and Day-Ryusuke Hamaguchi Film Works Exhibition * Chengdu Station" screening event will be held in Chengdu Pacific Studios (Wangfujing Store) from November 4th to 10th. On November 4th and 5th, Ryusuke Hamaguchi went to the event site to have a close exchange with Chengdu fans and talk about the light and dreams in the movie.
Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi directed the romance film "Night and Day" in 2018. The film was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival. In 2015, 4 actresses of "Happy Hour" won the Locarno Film Festival. Best Actress Award. He is hailed by the international film circle as the most creative contemporary Japanese director after Hirokazu Ke and Naomi Kawase.
It is reported that this screening event will show 4 works of director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, namely "Passion", "Day and Night", "Happy Hour" and "Intimacy". The director visited Chengdu to attend the after-screening of "Passion" and "Night and Day". Communication activities.
At the "Night and Day" exchange event, Hamaguchi Ryusuke said that this film is his first commercial film. "The previous part of "Night and Day" is called "Intimate". After "Intimate" is finished, "Night and Day" "The producer asked me to make a commercial film together. The films I made before were all scripts written by myself, or created by my own team. The current situation of Japanese commercial films is that if the directors write them themselves In terms of scripts, the box office may not be ideal. Generally, movies based on novels or comics have better box office, so the producer also requires novels to be adapted. However, none of the works he brought to me was particularly favorite. Later , Because I like the author of "Dark Night and Day", Shibasaki Yuka, so I told the producer that I want to adapt "Dark Night and Day". "
Some viewers said that "Night and Day" is very similar to the film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The director said, “Because I am a student of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, I am affected.”
In 2015, the feature film "Happy Hour" directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi lasted more than 5 hours and was selected as the 68th Roga Contested at the Connaught Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay Award. The four amateur actresses in the film also tied for the Best Actress Award. "Happy Hour" will be screened at Pacific Studios (Wangfujing Store) at 13:30 this Saturday, and "Intimate" will be screened at 13:30 this Sunday.
Red Star News reporter Zhang Shihao Photo courtesy of the organizer
