Hirokazu Kore-eda

Ashura no Gotoku (2024)

Monster (2023)

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil. ...

Broker (2022)

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them ...

My Small Land (2022)

Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. ...

HAJIKERU (2022)

Highschool graduate Natsumi lives in a provincial town with her estranged mother, working an unfulfilled job at a supermarket among gossips of conservative townspeople. The latest gossip revolves around Keiko, an attractive young woman recently relocated f ...

National Theatre Live: After Life (2021)

A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials, they must sift through their past lives to choose their forever. Adapted from Hirok ...

The Center Lane (2021)

Diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019, Japanese competitive swimmer Rikako Ikee returns to her destiny: the center lane, in Hirokazu Kore-eda's short film for skincare brand SK-II. ...

Any Crybabies Around? (2020)

A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man. ...

The Truth (2019)

Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will qu ...

Ten Years Japan (2018)

Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future. ...

Shoplifters (2018)

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows ...

The Third Murder (2017)

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened. ...

After the Storm (2016)

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota ...

Ishibumi (2015)

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

Our Little Sister (2015)

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them. ...

Homeland (2014)

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 village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before lo ...

Like Father, Like Son (2013)

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own. ...

The Message from Fukushima (2012)

Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. ...

Live Fukushima: Kaze to Rock Super Nomaoi (2012)

Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman (2011)

Recently retired from a company after some 40 years of service, Sunada Tomoaki, father of filmmaker Sunada Mami, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and only has a few months left to live. True to his pragmatic core, Sunada sets out to accomplish a list of t ...

I Wish (2011)

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed. ...

Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers. ...

Beautiful Islands (2010)

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 people all ...

The Days After (2010)

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 Japanes ...

Air Doll (2009)

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be g ...

So I Can Be Alright: Cocco's Endless Journey (2008)

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

Still Walking (2008)

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear. ...

Sway (2006)

A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride. ...

Hana (2006)

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. Wh ...

Series Constitution. Article 9: War Renunciation "Oblivion" (2006)

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 the came ...

A Making of Nobody Knows (2004)

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

Nobody Knows (2004)

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning. ...

Tobira no muko Rock kashu miyamoto hiroji to iu ikikata (2004)

Wild Berries (2003)

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence. ...

Kakuto (2003)

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 friends. ...

Birthplace (2003)

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

Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri (2003)

Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. ...

Distance (2001)

On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths. ...

After Life (1999)

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory ...

Without Memory (1996)

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 chronicles his family's fight to receive proper treatment and benefits from this devastating malpractice. ...

This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda) (1996)

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 proces ...

Maborosi (1995)

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world. ...

August Without Him (1994)

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 documentary contrasts his public life as an outspoken figure on the lecture circuit with his personal descen ...

Yottsu no shibu jikoku (1993)

Soul Sketches - Every Person's Kenji Miyazawa (1993)

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang (1993)

From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a completely different approach to that of the commercial films which had preceded it. This piece contrasts Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang, two rivals who were t ...

I Wish I Could Be Japanese (1992)

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 the stor ...

Where Has All the Pollution Gone? (1991)

Where Has All The Pollution Gone? exposes air pollution caused by Japan's largest Kawasaki Steel Corp. on a scale of ten times the size of Disneyland. Since the steelworks started running, almost every local resident has been suffering from severe asthma w ...

Lessons from a Calf (1991)

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, nutr ...

However... (1991)

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. ...

Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' (1989)

Walking in the Movies (2024)

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 civil servant, he dedicated his whole life to the sheer passion for films. With his deep commitment and in ...

Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang (2023)

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 the closed social milieu of martial law in Taiwan, he became immersed in music and yearned for freedom, arou ...

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera (2023)

She worked with the world's greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a "cold blonde actress", thanks to great intervie ...

Jiseok (2022)

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 colleagu ...

Once upon a time... "Shoplifters" (2021)

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. ...

Kiki Kirin's Life (2019)

This documentary follows the last days of actress KIKI Kirin, who passed away on September 15, 2018. The documentary is the first long-term, in-depth coverage of Ki-kin, and is a re-edited version of the NHK documentary of the same title that was broadcast ...

A Story on the Shore (2019)

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 creation ...

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy. ...

Making 'Still Walking' (2009)

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

A Making of Nobody Knows (2004)

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

Birthplace (2003)

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

Without Memory (1996)

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 chronicles his family's fight to receive proper treatment and benefits from this devastating malpractice. ...