Maiko Mihara in a still from Happy Hour (category IIA, Japanese), directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Sachie Tanaka, Rira Kawamura and Hazuki Kikuchi co-star.
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Happy Hour movie review: Drive My Car director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 2015 masterpiece is a five-hour meditation on friendship, marriage and connection
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi is no stranger to shooting long films, and Happy Hour has a 317-minute running time
- There are no fast cuts, and every scene and conversation is allowed to play out at length in this engrossing story of four middle-class Japanese women
Maiko Mihara in a still from Happy Hour (category IIA, Japanese), directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Sachie Tanaka, Rira Kawamura and Hazuki Kikuchi co-star.
