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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

Diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019, Japanese competitive swimmer Rikako Ikee returns to her destiny: the center lane, in Hirokazu Kore-eda's...

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

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

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...

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...

She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout...

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

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

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...

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