3/21 “The Depths” Film Screening and Sushi Lecture, 5pm
5pm in CAS B12
Film followed by Q&A with Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Sushi Reception to Follow. This event is free and open to the public.
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.
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
Sponsored by:
The Department of world Languages & Literatures
National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship
The Korea Foundation
BU Center for the Study of Asia
BU Japanese Program