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Director
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Cast
Hiromi Demura,
Shoko Fukunaga,
Yuichiro Ito,
Rira Kawamura,
Hazuki Kikuchi
Genre
Drama
Jun, Akari, Sakurako and Fumi truly believe that they can confide in each other. But one day, at a party, Jun confesses that she is seeking a divorce from her husband, and this information seems to upset the other three. They follow her trial as she attempts to win her case against her husband’s will.
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The New Yorker by Richard Brody
Happy Hour, a work of distinctly modern cinema, reaches deep into the classic traditions of melodrama—along with its coincidences and its violent contrasts—to revive a latent power for grand-scale observation through painfully close contact with the agonizing intimacies of contemporary life.
Village Voice by Melissa Anderson
Funny (sometimes caustically so), rueful, and bracingly honest, Happy Hour is also a movie defined by an unshakeable belief that any encounter holds the promise of magic.
Slant Magazine by Carson Lund
Hamaguchi arranges most sequences around a handful of static, roomy medium shots that subtly suggest emotional dynamics through camera and actor positioning.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
If Happy Hour doesn’t quite deliver all it promises, that may only be because it promises quite a lot.
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