{"id":80512,"date":"2026-08-26T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/80512\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:02:05","slug":"oscars-japan-selects-ryusuke-hamaguchis-all-of-a-sudden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/80512\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars: Japan Selects Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2019s \u2018All Of A Sudden\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ryusuke-hamaguchi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ryusuke-hamaguchi\" data-tag=\"ryusuke-hamaguchi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryusuke Hamaguchi<\/a>\u2019s latest feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/all-of-a-sudden\/\" id=\"auto-tag_all-of-a-sudden\" data-tag=\"all-of-a-sudden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Of A Sudden<\/a>, has been selected as <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/japan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_japan\" data-tag=\"japan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s entry for the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/best-international-feature-film\/\" id=\"auto-tag_best-international-feature-film\" data-tag=\"best-international-feature-film\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best International Feature Film<\/a> category at the 99th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Japanese-French-language drama premiered to an 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes and went on to win a Best Actress prize for both of its stars, Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSet in France and Japan, All of a Sudden follows Marie-Lou (Efira), the director of a care facility for the elderly, who is determined to introduce an innovative philosophy of care rooted in listening and respect for residents\u2019 dignity, despite resistance from members of her staff. Her path is profoundly reshaped by an encounter with Mari (Okamoto), a Japanese theater director battling cancer. As the two women form a deep friendship, they join forces in a shared struggle to make the impossible possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHamaguchi co-wrote the screenplay with L\u00e9a Le Dimna, loosely adapting the book of writings by Makiko Miyano and Maho Isono, When Life Suddenly Takes a Turn: Twenty Letters Between a Philosopher with Terminal Cancer and a Medical Anthropologist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is produced by David Gauqui\u00e9, Julien Deris, Jean-Luc Ormi\u00e8res and Renan Artukma\u00e7 for France\u2019s Cinefrance Studios; Hiroko Matsuda, Kosuke Oshida and Yuji Sadai for Japan\u2019s Office Shirous and Bitters End; Bettina Brokemper for Germany\u2019s Heimatfilm; and Joseph Rouschop for Belgium\u2019s Tarantula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNeon will open the film in theaters on Nov. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2019s latest feature, All Of A Sudden, has been selected as Japan\u2019s entry for the Best International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16940,51520,8,33,16945],"class_list":["post-80512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-all-of-a-sudden","tag-best-international-feature-film","tag-japan","tag-nihon","tag-ryusuke-hamaguchi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}