Happy Hour is a slow-burning epic chronicling the sentimental journey of four thirtysomething women towards a new understanding of life and love. With a five-hour-plus running time, this film creates intimate and subtly complex character development, achieved by collaboration between director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and the actresses, who together defined the characters in a series of workshop sessions that preceded the film’s eight-month shoot. Winning awards at major international festivals this film has brought new attention to one of Japan’s most talented young directors. This film screening preceded a retrospective of the earlier fiction and documentary work of Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, in residence at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
Happy Hour
Film Screening and In-Person Q&A and Discussion
with DIRECTOR RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI, RIJS Visiting Artist in Residence
and HADEN GUEST, Director of the Harvard Film Archive
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Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
With Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara.
Japan, 2015, DCP, color, 317 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
DCP source: filmmaker.
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Harvard Film Archive Screening co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute