Movies: Hirokazu Kore-eda

On May 18, 2017, the Busan International Film Festival’s Program Director Kim Jiseok died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack while on a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival. In the face of his unexpected demise, his old friends and co...

Kore-eda started as a documentary maker with this beautiful portrait about the life and work of the head of Japanese social work. Yamanouchi Yoyomori devoted himself to the victims of the Minamata disease, caused by methyl mercury poisoning....

The film deals with the rights of Japanese-Koreans -born in Japan but without Japanese passport or nationality- and the social rejection that they face if they don’t integrate completely, abandoning their Korean identity. The film’s main thread is th...

An elementary school in Japan begins an experimental program that frames the students' curriculum around one single project: the raising of a calf from adolescence to adulthood. Through their work with the calf, the students learn about math, biology...

Part of the documentary project that each company competed on the theme of the Constitution of Japan.With the keyword "oblivion," Koreeda explores how "Article 9 of the Constitution renounces war" has been involved in people's inner world, turning th...

KORE-EDA Hirokazu, who won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is a friend of mine for 20 years. In one summer, my camera followed him in three seaside towns from Cannes, Okinawa and Chigasaki. His film was embraced by many people and the cr...

A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way in over their heads when they inadvertently lose a stash of drugs they're meant to deal to their fri...

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A documentary about the J-pop / folk rock singer Cocco....

The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda....

The film takes shape through the form of a video exchange between Hirokazu Kore-eda and Naomi Kawase. Each films the world around them and intimately reflects on their individual struggles with making films. Kore-eda self-consciously reflects on his ...

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This movie (Executive Producer - KORE-EDA Hirokaz) looks at three beautiful islands, shaken by climate change: Tuvalu in the South Pacific, Venice in Italy, and Shishmaref in Alaska. The islands all have different climates and cultures, but the peopl...

How did an intimate film made on a modest budget win a Palme d'Or and attract 4 million viewers in Japan? With its principal craftsmen, including one-man band Hirokazu Kore-eda, we take a look back at a little gem of cinema made... with the family....

A documentary filmed behind the scenes during the making of Hirokasu Kore-eda's 2008 film "Still Walking."...

A child appears before a young couple who lost their beloved son at an early age. Is he the reincarnation of their son, or a ghost? The couple grows closer to the child, but before long, he suddenly disappears. The Days After is the contribution of J...

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