Hirokazu Kore-eda Movies

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...

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

A father loses his short-term memory as a result of a botched medical procedure, which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. 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...

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

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

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...

Highschool graduate Natsumi lives in a provincial town with her estranged mother, working an unfulfilled job at a supermarket among gossips of...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

An elementary school in Japan begins an experimental program that frames the students' curriculum around one single project: the raising of a calf...

Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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

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...