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Passion
Directed by
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
NR
2008
1h 56m
Drama
,
Romance
6.8
100%
6.2
Rent for $5.99
A young couple announces their wedding at a party with friends. The reactions of the latter reveal hitherto unexpressed sentimental flaws within the group. The following days, the tension rises to the surface.
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Cast of Passion
Aoba Kawai
Kaho
Ryuta Okamoto
Tomoya
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Takeshi
Fusako Urabe
Takako
Nao Okabe
Kenichiro
Yui Sakuma
Marie
Yue
Hana
Mayumi Tenkô
Kaho's Mother
Masamichi Ota
Taxi Driver
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Director / Writer
Satoshi Fujii
Producer
Hironori Iwamoto
Production Design
Norifumi Ataka
Production Design
Yuichi Yuzawa
Director Of Photography
Shinji Hashimoto
Hair Department Head
Tadashi Nohara
Assistant Director
Ryoko Yamamoto
Editor
Yuko Kusakari
Sound
Yûko Watanabe
Line Producer
Passion Ratings & Reviews
MovieWeb
Jericho Tadeo
Passion effectively historicizes its director's curiosities as a young filmmaker...essentially providing a time travel-trail of bread crumbs of the themes and ideas that would continue to pop up in his later films.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Gender stereotypes, acknowledgement of self-worth, and resistance to the demands of adulthood are some of the issues examined in this thoughtful drama.
Video Librarian Magazine
Kathy Fennessy
For all its imperfections...the film is remarkably self-assured for a thesis project. Over the next decade, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi would make great strides, but Passion proves he was a gifted filmmaker right from the start.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
Throughout the film's two hours running time, these twenty-year-olds grapple with contradictory emotions as they vacillate between an external persona designed to protect themselves and an internal one of insecurities and emotional need.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
A fitting precursor to his later masterworks, Passion is guaranteed to whet one's appetite for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's next movie, whenever that may be.
Film Threat
Sabina Dana Plasse
Filmed on celluloid with questionable lighting but a lovely music score, this is a relatively simple and prolonged story supported by dynamic dialogue.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
A melancholy look at love and the various ways in which people understand their connections to others.
New York Times
Austin Considine
"Passion" has a low-fi, hangout feel, flush with the youthful indie energy and forgivable pretensions of an artist who believes that filmmaking matters. Hamaguchi is still a student but already finding his voice.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Tender, nuanced and profoundly human. A promising directorial debut.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Passion already finds Hamaguchi Ryûsuke to be a superb orchestrator of moods and tones.
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