A dying man attempts to reconcile his fragmented relationship with a mysterious young girl. It dosen't end well.
Two friends attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner for the family of a classmate they strangled to death.
A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.
Susana has gathered all her friends to celebrate a very special evening: it's Toni's birthday, and for the first time he's away in Germany, but the distance is not going to stop them from celebrating together. No one suspects that after the party their lives will change forever.
A person performs routine tasks and relaxing activities to fight a troubling zeitgeist.
A person attempts to rid their apartment of cat urine smell.
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
A woman with an hurted face sits in the half-light of a room. The incoming of a second character brokes the stasis in which she’s trapped.
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
After a series of unexpected UFO crash landings on the planet Earth, a large portion of life slowly and mysteriously went extinct. We follow a man that struggles for survival, as he gathers items needed for the impending winter. Outside of personal video logs and the philosophical ramblings of a former human survivor, the man seems to wander the world without contact from other humans.
Tell me you didn’t do what you shouldn’t have done , I’ll forget everything I saw
A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.
Mario and Jaime don't know how to love each other. The last night of passion and violence will end in broken glass and broken hearts. Neither of them has ever loved before, or at least, not so strongly. Without noticing it, they suffocate each other. But they will always be their first love.
Mysterious and eerie details regarding a young woman's murder start to unravel as a seemingly mundane day is not what it appears to be.
On the first day of the performance, the main actor disappears...
A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.
A person desperately searches for their lost little brother during a Memorial Day festival in this one take POV thriller
Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.
Filmed in one continuous 119-minute shot, THE WEDDING PARTY tells the story of a groomsman who must navigate a slew of disasters and maintain order at his best friend's wedding reception.