Saturday | February 25, 2017 3:00 pm

Intimacies
(Shinmitsusa)

Director in Person
$12 Special Event Tickets

Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
With Rei Hirano, Ryo Sato, Mikio Tayama.
Japan, 2012, DCP, color, 255 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
DCP source: filmmaker

Intimacies (Shinmitsusa) introduction and post-screening discussion with Haden Guest, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and translator Kimberly Sanders. ©Harvard Film Archive Read transcript

Hamaguchi’s first exploration of extreme duration is a fascinating three-part epic following the difficult production and realization of a stage play. Conceived while Hamaguchi was teaching at the ENBU film and theater school, and featuring an ensemble cast of ENBU students and colleagues, Intimacies blends fiction and documentary, the cinematic and theatrical, in its observational chronicle of the challenging tensions that animate yet also threaten to upend the production.