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Dec 12, 2015 · Happy Hour: Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. With Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura. A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.
Oct 19, 2017 · HAPPY HOUR is far more than just an ordinary melodrama. It is a spectacularly complex and fiercely poetic rendering of the details of daily life in which ideas and feelings are swayed by the ...
Happy Hour (ハッピーアワー, Happī Awā) is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi . Plot. The film follows the lives and loves of four middle-class, thirty-seven-year-old women who are friends and who live in Kobe: unemployed Jun, housewife Sakurako, divorced nurse Akari, and married arts administrator Fumi.
Arguably Hamaguchi’s breakthrough film internationally, this immersive, intensely moving drama of female friendship and midlife awakening—which won its four leads a shared Best Actress award at the Locarno Film Festival—uses its epic five-plus-hour runtime to show what other films leave out.
Happy Hour explores the limits, messiness, and struggles intrinsic to human connection and intimacy. More specifically, this film is an incredibly restrained portrait of four women driven to the point of emotional bankruptcy and their diverging responses once they reach the point of feduppedness.
With a talented cast led by Sachie Tanaka and Hazuki Kikuchi, the film takes viewers on an emotional journey filled with raw and authentic performances. Set in the picturesque city of Kobe, Happy Hour (Part Two) delves into the lives of four close friends – Jun, Akari, Sakurako, and Fumi.
Aug 24, 2016 · Richard Brody on “Happy Hour,” a five-hour film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, which revolves around four Japanese women tackling work and relationships.
