「PORTO」で観る、語り合う「ハッピーアワー」開催

This film, which gathered public attention by four actresses who had never acted before together won the best actress award at Locarno International Film Festival, was created through the citizen participation workshop called “Improvisation Acting Workshop in Kobe”. “Happy Hour” became a 5hours17minutes-length-film, in which most of the roles were played by little-experienced actors.

Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI has always made challenging films such as “Intimacies(Shinmitsu-sa)”, a 4hours-length-movie which used students of film school for all the roles, and Tohoku Documentary Trilogy “The Sound of the Waves(Nami-no-oto)”, “Voices from the Waves(Nami-no-koe)” and “Storytellers(Utau-hito)”, a series of films that runs for more than 7 hours alltogher.

Music of Umitaro ABE who was responsible for the music in Yukio NINAGAWA stages also colors the film.

 

Setting four women in their late thirties as leading characters and carefully focusing their individual families, careers, and relationships, Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI perfectly expresses “ordinary” anxieties and worries of women as a tense drama.
Am I the person whom I really wanted to be? Do I fully put my real feelings into words?
Each word of them, coming out slowly and with hesitation, drives thrilling excitements.
It is a must-see film that produced a very big sensation in Locarno!

「PORTO」で観る、語り合う「ハッピーアワー」開催

Four crossroads that four women face.

Four women, Atari, Sakurako, Mimi, and Jun, are in their late thirties and thought they were best friends who share anything with until Jun’s secret was revealed…
Sakurako, having a teenage sun, spends her ordinary life to support busy husband but feels a little loneliness.
Fumi also feels unspeakable anxiety at the superficial marital relationship with her husband who works as an editor that both never face each other.
Akari works as a nurse who was being once divorced.
She has difficult time with her incompetent younger colleague and is being approached by a man who she met at the hospital but is not in a mood.

 
Their uneasiness caused by knowing Jun’s secret becomes, without realizing, an opportunity for them to change their lives.
The four go to Arima Onsen and spend a fun time to have a little comfort but the three doesn’t know Jun’s hidden determination.
They question themselves in a long night.
— Am I the person who I really wanted to be?

「PORTO」で観る、語り合う「ハッピーアワー」開催

キャスト Cast

Sachie TANAKA as Akari
Hazuki KIKUCHI as Sakurako
Maiko MIHARA as Fumi
Rira KAWAMURA as Jun
  • Yoshio SHIN
  • Hiroyuki MIURA
  • Yoshitaka ZAHANA
  • Shuhei SHIBATA
  • Hiromi DEMURA
  • Hajime SAKASHO
  • Tsugumi KUGAI
  • Yasunobu TANABE
  • Ayaka SHIBUTANI
  • Shoko FUKUNAGA
  • Yuichiro ITO
  • Ayumu TONOI
  • Reina SHIIHASHI

キャスト Cast

HATANO KOUBOU / Script

A unit formed in Kobe 2013 by film directors Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI, Tadashi NOHARA and a scriptwriter Tomoyuki TAKAHASHI

Tadashi NOHARA

Born in Tochigi in 1983. He entered the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2007, where he studied under Kiyoshi KUROSAWA. He directed "Kyoko" starring Shinobu TERAJIMA, a piece of the omnibus "Lush Life" originally written by Kotaro ISAKA. He also made a feature film "Elephant Love" starring Issei ISHIDA. He now works in Kobe after the experiences as CS program AD and a CG production manager. The public release of his latest film "talk to remember" will be at Hiroshima International Film Festival in Nov. 2015.

Tomoyuki TAKAHASHI

Born in 1985. He finished his master at Graduate School of Nihon University College of Arts in 2010. He learned script writing whie in college. Then he started his career as scriptwriter for horror OV and web drama, while joining the independent film staff at the same time. His major scripts are "Touching the skin of eeriness"(Director:Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI), "Saigo no Inochi(Final Life)"(original novel:Fuminori NAKAMURA, Director/co-writer:Junpei MATSUMOTO).

Yoshio KITAGAWA / Director of Photography

Born in Okayama in 1982. After he graduated from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, he started his career as an assistant director of photography for films and commercials. He also participated in indie films as a photographer. He works with director HAMAGUCHI in Tohoku Trilogy and "Intimacies" as well. His other works as a director of photography are the short "Ookina Saifu"(2011, directed by Shin'ichi Sugita) and a feature "Joy of Man's Desiring"(2015, directed by Shin'ichi Sugita).

Umitaro ABE / Music

Born in 1978. Composer. He majored in music at the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts and Troisième cycle at Université Paris 8. He is often in charge of Yukio NINAGAWA's theatrical music since 2008, along with other dramas and TV programs. He composed the musical "The cat that lived a million times" choreographed by Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak with Rocket Matsu in 2013 and was also a music director(restaged in 2015). The themes of "Nichiyo Bijutsukan"(NHK), "Sekai de Ichiban Utsukushii Shunkan"(BS Premium), "W-za kara no Shotaijo"(WOWWOW Cinema) are also his works. He has released four albums such as "Cinemashka,chika-chika cinemashka" in 2012 and "The Gardens -Chamber music for Clematis-no-Oka" in 2013.

www.umitaroabe.com

Executive Producer :Sho HARADA, Katsumi TOKUYAMA
Producer:Satoshi TAKATA, Hideyuki OKAMOTO, Tadashi NOHARA
Associate Producer:靜 健子、HAYASHI Akikiyo
Director : Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI
screenplay : HATANO KOBO(Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI, Tadashi NOHARA, Tomoyuki TAKAHASHI)
Director of Photography : Yoshio KITAGAWA
Sound: Izumi MATSUNO
Gaffer : Keijiro AKIYAMA
Assistant Director :Hidekazu TOUCHI, Toru TAKANO
Music : Umitaro ABE
Production : Kobe Workshop Cinema Project(NEOPA,fictive
Publishists : Rui SASAKI, Hideyo IWAI

【special thanks】
野瀬 範久、SASAKI Hideaki、奥野 弘幸、山田 ゆかり
藤島 順二、北川 喜信、野本 幸孝、金森 春樹
芹沢 高志、中山 英之、Silent Voice、坂本 一馬
SAITO Ayako、桜井 敬子、岡村 忠親、MASE Yukie

【Special Cooperation】
Design Creative Center Kobe(KIITO)
Gateway for Directors Japan

2015 / Japan / Color / 317min. / 16:9 / HD

「PORTO」で観る、語り合う「ハッピーアワー」開催

濱口竜介 Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI / 監督 Director

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi was born on Dec 16, 1978. After graduating from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Art in Aesthetics in March 2003, he had been working as an assistant directors for film and TV industry for three years. Then, Hamaguchi has studied at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts and got the degree of Master of Film in March, 2008. PASSION is his graduation work which was well-received by the professors including renowned director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and officially selected in the Zabaltegi Section of San Sebastian International Film Festival 2008 as well as Tokyo FILMeX competition. He has been constantly working on films since then. These include the Japan/Korea coproduction film THE DEPTHS (2010) screened in Tokyo FILMeX and a series of documentary Tohoku Trilogy co-directed by Ko Sakai (Sound of the Waves, Voices from the Waves and Storytellers) from 2011 to 2013. The former two of trilogy are composed by interviews of the victims of the devastating Great Japan Earthquake, and Storytellers is a documentary about research activity in Japanese regional folktales.
His recent fiction films are a feature film Intimacies (2012) and Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013) staring Premio Marcello Mastroianni winner Shota Sometani. He is now based in Kobe and HAPPY HOUR is his first feature fiction in 3 years.

Filmography

"PASSION" (2008/HD/115min): Official Selection - San Sebastian International Film Festival and Tokyo Filmex
"I Love Thee for Good" (2009/HD/58min): Official Selection - Paris Cinema International Film Festival
"THE DEPTHS" (2010/HD/121min): Official Selection - Tokyo Filmex
"Sound of Waves" * (2011/HD/142min): Official Selection - 65th Locarno International Film Festival
"Intimacies" (2012/HD/255min): screening at Polepole Higashinakano
"Voice of the Waves Shinchi Town" * (2013/HD/103min): Official Selection - Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
"Voice of the Waves Kisenuma" * (2013/HD/109min): Official Selection - Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
"Storytellers" * (2013/HD/120min): Official Selection - Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
"Touching the Skin of Eeriness" (2013/HD/54min)
*Sound of Waves, Voice of Waves and Storytellers are co-directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Ko Sakai.

キャスト/スタッフ | Comments

Shigehiko Hasumi

”この若い作家の視覚は、背景となった神戸の町を、まるでジャック・リヴェットの撮るパリのような非現実的な空間へと変容せしめ、女性たちを、ジョン・キャサベテスの撮る存在のような驚異の生々しさへと変容せしめている。にもかかわらず、この二十一世紀の女性映画は増村保造にすら似ておらず、独自のあやうさとしたたかさのなかで揺れ続け、見るものを魅了する。上映時間の5時間17分は、平成日本には過ぎた貴重な贈りものだといえる。これを玩味せずにおく理由などまったく存在しない。必見!!!”

—蓮實重彦(映画評論家)

Junko Gosho

”一点倒立、
漂着した瓦礫を立てつづけた男が教示する。
重心、軸、回転、温度、鼓動、
意識した途端に揺れはじめる女たち。
独りの点、人の線、人間の面、世界の体、映画の胞。

俳優の才能とは、演技の巧みさよりも、
人物の動態という時空間にみずからを投じることだ。
本作には4人の名女優がいる。
彼女たちがアマチュアと知って、頷いた。
4つの女がそれ自体として存在する”

—五所純子(文筆家)

Tetsuya Miura

”5時間17分は、掛け値なしに、あっという間に過ぎた。
そして映画を見終えた後、その外の世界の見え方は、果たして、劇的に変わってしまったように思われた。
あかりや、純や、桜子や、芙美が、たがいの「微笑」に秘められている、とほうもない数のニュアンスを丹念に聴き届けようとするその時間を共有し終えたいま、街を歩き、見知らぬ顔とすれ違うたび、それらの顔に、同様のひろがりや深さを予感せずにいることはできないからだ。”

—三浦哲哉(映画研究・批評、青山学院大学准教授)

Moon So-ri

”私は「ハッピーアワー」を観た後、当然だと思っていたこと、慣れ親しんだことについて
自らに真摯に問いかけるようになりました。

映画とは何か 演技とは何か
関係とは何か 幸せとは何か

長いランニングタイムの間、静かに淡々と最後まで語るような監督の姿勢はとても印象的で、
心の奥深いところから正直に表現を紡ぎ出す4人の女優にもとても驚きました

特異に見える点は見当たりません。

しかし、最後はとても新しい映画だと感じられる驚くべき映画です。”

—ムン・ソリ(女優『オアシス』『自由が丘で』)

Cahiers du Cinéma

”4人の女性の見事な肖像画”

—カイエ・デュ・シネマ

Carlo Chatrian

”Watching HAPPY HOUR is both a challenge and an adventure. A challenge the 21st century’s communication system requires of us, and an adventure that takes us beyond the traditional format of narrative film to offer a different kind of experience. Spending a little over five hours of our lives on HAPPY HOUR is an activity that I warmly recommend. Not only for the reasons given above, but because Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s film is actually not long at all: indeed, having encountered its four wonderful protagonists, having shared their experiences which are those of everyday life, both major and minor, leaves you wanting to stay with them a little longer. To give them a hug, to help them bear with life’s hard knocks, but also to try and understand ourselves a little more.”

—Carlo Chatrian

Udo Kier

”ON EVERY LEVEL OF FILMMAKING,STORY,SCRIPT,CAST AND DIRECTION THIS FILM IS IN A WORD SUPERB”

—UDO KIER

Libération

”(非常に美しい作品、)途方もなく野心的”

—リベラシオン紙(フランス)

Film de Culte

”見るものを恍惚とさせる、魔法のような映画”

—フィルム・ド・カルト(フランス)

予告編 | Trailer

「PORTO」で観る、語り合う「ハッピーアワー」開催

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Dec.21 - 27, 2019
Dec.29 - 30, 2018
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Dec.27 - 29, 2017
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DateCountryFilm Festival
April 2017IrelandJapanese Film Festival
January 2017CanadaPanorama des cinémas du présent 5
January 2017FranceFestival du Cinéma Japonais Contemporain
Soleil d'or du public
December 2016U.S.Japanese Currents
November 2016Japan22th Kawasaki Shinyuri Film Festival
October 2016Japan29th Tokyo International Film Festival
September 2016BrazilINDIE Festival
September 2016JapanMiyazaki Film Festival
July 2016MexicoGuanajuato International Film Festival
Premio al Mejor Largometraje Internacional de Ficción
July 2016New ZealandNew Zealand International Film Festival
July 2016U.S.Japan Film Festival of San Francisco
July 2016Australiathe 65th Melbourne International Film Festival
June 2016Germanythe 34th FILMFEST MÜNCHEN
June 2016China19th Shanghai International Film festival
June 2016Taiwan18th Taipei Film Festival
June 2016Japan2016 Kaikyo Film Festival
April 2016South KoreaThe 17th Jeonju International Film Festival
April 2016SpainBarcelona International Auteur Film Festival
El Premio del Público
April 2016U.S.59th San Francisco International Film Festival
April 2016U.S.35th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
March 2016Japan30th Takasaki Film Festival
March 2016U.S.New Directors/New Films
January 2016NetherlandsInternational Film Festival Rotterdam: IFFR
Episodic/Epidemic section
January 2016Sweden39th Göteborg Film Festival
January 2016Hong KongHong Kong Independent Film Festival
December 2015Indonesia10th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
November 2015Singapore26th Singapore International Film Festival
Asian Feature Film Competition
Best Director
November 2015France37th Festival des 3 Continents
International Competition
la Montgolfière d'argent, le prix du public
November 2015JapanHiroshima International Film Festival
November 2015U.S.16th San Diego Asian Film Festival
November 2015U.K.29th Leeds International Film Festival
October 2015AustriaViennale Vienna International Film Festival
October 2015U.K.BFI London Film Festival 2015
August 2015Switzerland68th Locarno International Film Festival
Concorso Internazionale
Best Actress, Special Mention for Script

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OsakaDainana Geijutsu Gekijo06-6302-2073Friday, 5 February - Saturday, 23 January 2016
KyotoKyoto Minami-Kaikan075-661-3993Saturday 20, February 2016 All Night Through
Saturday 23, July 2016 All Night Through
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11 Aug, 2018
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ChibaKinema Junpo Theater04-7141-7238Saturday, 9 July - Friday, 15 July
NYCMoMAWednesday, 24 Aug. - Tuesday, 30 Aug.
Seoul시네마테크 KOFATuesday, 6 Sep., Friday, 9 Sep. 2016
New Haven, CTYale UniversityFriday, 16 Sep. 2016
BangkokBACCSaturday, 24 Sep. 2016
HyogoHimeji City Culture Center079-281-8007Saturday, 1st October
SaitamaLong film theater | Saitama Triennale2016048-829-1225Friday, 7 October
YamanashiTheater Isawa055-262-4674Saturday, 9 July - Friday, 22 July(finished)
Rescreening
Oct. 22〜Nov. 11
Cambridge, MAHarvard Film ArchiveSaturday, 12 November
Princeton, NZPrinceton University(609) 258-3000Monday, Dec.5〜Dec.6
TokyoPole Pole Higashinakano03-3371-0088Saturday, Dec.12〜Dec.28
KyotoRissei Cinema080-3842-5398Friday, 19 - Saturday, 6 February 2016
Rescreening
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Queens, NYMuseum of the Moving ImageSaturday, December 31 2016
Cleveland, OHCleveland CinemathequeSunday, January 15 2017
Ann Arbor, MIUniv. of Michigan Center for Japanese StudiesFriday, January 20 2017
Chicago, ILGene Siskel Film CenterFriday, Feb. 3, Saturday Feb. 4 2017
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Bloomington, INThe RyderFebruary 4 - February 13, 2017
Austin, TXAlamo Drafthouse South LamarSunday, February 26, 2017
Seatle, WANorthwest Film ForumWednesday, March 8, Friday, March 10, 2017
Columbus, OHGateway Film CenterSaturday, March 11, Sunday March 12 2017
SeoulKOFAxJapan FoundationSunday, March 26, Friday March 31 2017
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Nashville, TNBelcourtSunday, April 2, 2017
Santa Fe, NMCCAApril 8-9, 2017
Berkely, CAUC BerkelySunday, May 14, 2017
KyotoKyoto Art Theater(Nichibunken 30years aniv.)Friday, May 26, 2017
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LondonBFI SouthbankSaturday, March 10, 2018
TottoriTottori Prefectural MuseumSaturday, Aug. 18&25, 2018
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Queensland, AustraliaQAGOMASun. 16 Dec 2018
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