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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Synepic Entertainment
  • 5 h 17 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Synepic Entertainment
  • 5 h 17 m

Summary Four women. All in their 30s. Three married, one divorcee. They are able to tell each other anything. Or at least they thought. One day, after losing in divorce court, one of them gives up on a future with their partner and disappears. The three remaining women take a second look at their lives. The long night is full of questions. Are y...

Directed By: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Written By: Tadashi Nohara, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Synepic Entertainment
  • 5 h 17 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Synepic Entertainment
  • 5 h 17 m

Happy Hour

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary Four women. All in their 30s. Three married, one divorcee. They are able to tell each other anything. Or at least they thought. One day, after losing in divorce court, one of them gives up on a future with their partner and disappears. The three remaining women take a second look at their lives. The long night is full of questions. Are y...

Directed By: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Written By: Tadashi Nohara, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

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100
Dec 10, 2016
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.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
90
Aug 24, 2016
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.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
88
Aug 24, 2016
Hamaguchi arranges most sequences around a handful of static, roomy medium shots that subtly suggest emotional dynamics through camera and actor positioning.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 24, 2016
If Happy Hour doesn’t quite deliver all it promises, that may only be because it promises quite a lot.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Fictive, Kobe Workshop Cinema Project, NEOPA
Release Date Aug 24, 2016
Duration 5 h 17 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline A unique experience
Website http://hh.fictive.jp/
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Awards

Locarno International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Nantes Three Continents Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Singapore International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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