Hirokazu Kore-eda Movies

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire...

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...

A memorial to the atomic annihilation of 321 students at Hiroshima Middle School.

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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...

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...

CHEN Ming-chang, exposed to Western music, from The Beatles to Bob Dylan, often taught himself to play and sing with a guitar when he was young. In...

Recently retired from a company after some 40 years of service, Sunada Tomoaki, father of filmmaker Sunada Mami, is diagnosed with terminal cancer...

Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must...

KIM Dong-ho is the founder of the Busan International Film Festival and one of the key figures in the rise of Korean cinema. Starting his career as a...

Part of the documentary project that each company competed on the theme of the Constitution of Japan.With the keyword "oblivion," Koreeda explores...

The film deals with the rights of Japanese-Koreans -born in Japan but without Japanese passport or nationality- and the social rejection that they...

Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Makiko Esumi and Hirokazu Kore-eda revisit Wajima, the setting of 'Maborosi'

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...

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

From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a completely different approach to that of the...

Hirata Yukata became the first man in Japan to publicly acknowledge that he had contracted HIV through gay sex. Filmed over a series of months, the...

A documentary film that closely follows the approximately three-month recording and production process of Tobira, an album by the rock band The...