The Depths
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
With Kim Min-Jun, Hoshi Ishida, Soji Arai.
Japan/South Korea, 2010, DCP, color, 121 min.
Japanese, Korean and English with English subtitles.
DCP source: filmmaker
With Kim Min-Jun, Hoshi Ishida, Soji Arai.
Japan/South Korea, 2010, DCP, color, 121 min.
Japanese, Korean and English with English subtitles.
DCP source: filmmaker
A famous Korean fashion photographer on assignment in Japan discovers a new kind of friendship with a mysterious male escort in Hamaguchi’s delicate character study. Anticipating his masterful epic of love and friendship, Happy Hour, The Depths reveals Hamaguchi’s fascination with the unspoken and often indescribable bonds that create real intimacy. A Korean-Japanese coproduction, The Depths gives a new dimension to Hamaguchi’s oeuvre with its study of homosexual desire and the therapeutic potential of art making.