Tomo Matsui

Some youths interact at a bar, a horse race and a bowling alley. A girl who has been visiting from out of town ,on her train ride back, reads aloud a list of vocabulary definitions from a dictionary.

A maiden work by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and the origin to his later masterpieces “Passion” (2008), the 255 minute long “Intimacies” (2012), and the 317 minute long “Happy Hour” (2015). The unusual, usual life and the ever wandering souls of 5 young men and women, captured on 8mm film.