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Hush!

Play trailer Poster for Hush! 2002,  2h 15m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 80% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 77% 250+ Ratings Popcornmeter
80% Tomatometer 15 Reviews 77% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
Naoya (Kazuya Takahashi) is busy leading his modern life as a gay man, but has a suspicion that something is missing from his world. Suddenly, he meets and falls in love with a man named Katsuhiro (Seiichi Tanabe). When a woman named Asako (Reiko Kataoka) proposes that she and Katsuhiro have a child together, Naoya opposes the idea. As Naoya, Katsuhiro and Asako struggle along, they eventually come to the realization that they will have to decide for themselves the true meaning of family.

Critics Reviews

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Edward Guthmann San Francisco Chronicle Apr 25, 2003
1/4
Starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary, humorless soap opera. Go to Full Review
V.A. Musetto New York Post Nov 8, 2002
2.5/4
Although the editing might have been tighter, Hush! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyle of young people in modern Japan. Go to Full Review
Stephen Holden New York Times Nov 7, 2002
3/5
If the incidents are piled on one another without adding up to much, they provide telling social details. Go to Full Review
Mark Schilling Japan Times Jul 24, 2026
4/5
The film delivers laughs but with a blackly comic edge. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 21, 2005
3/5
Mark Athitakis Filmcritic.com Apr 13, 2003
2/5
What might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Director

Seiichi Tanabe

Katsuhiro

Kazuya Takahashi

Naoya

Reiko Kataoka

Asako

Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Writer

Tetsujiro Yamagami

Producer

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Hush!

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Movie Info

Synopsis Naoya (Kazuya Takahashi) is busy leading his modern life as a gay man, but has a suspicion that something is missing from his world. Suddenly, he meets and falls in love with a man named Katsuhiro (Seiichi Tanabe). When a woman named Asako (Reiko Kataoka) proposes that she and Katsuhiro have a child together, Naoya opposes the idea. As Naoya, Katsuhiro and Asako struggle along, they eventually come to the realization that they will have to decide for themselves the true meaning of family.
Director
Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Producer
Tetsujiro Yamagami
Screenwriter
Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Distributor
Strand Releasing
Production Co
Siglo
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 8, 2002, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Jun 17, 2003
Box Office (Gross USA)
$21.3K
Runtime
2h 15m
Sound Mix
Surround
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