Hirokazu Kore-eda

Asura

In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel.

Release Date:2025-01-09

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:19

Walking in the Movies

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 instinctive creativity, he will keep “walking in the movies.”

Release Date:2024-05-16

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang

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, arousing his desire to become a musician. Later, he decided to set out on a journey to learn more about the music that has been passed down through generations. Traveling around Taiwan, he learns traditional opera music from prestigious musicians and integrates it into his artistic creations, composing music and stories that belong to Taiwan…

Release Date:2023-11-17

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

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 interviews of many artists who crossed her path.

Release Date:2023-10-22

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:5

Monster

When a young boy begins behaving strangely, shocking truths emerge as the story unfolds through the eyes of his single mother, a teacher who is believed to be responsible, and the child himself.

Release Date:2023-06-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:634

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House

Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same roof.

Release Date:2023-01-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:46

Jiseok

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 colleagues in the film industry recall what tormented him in his last days.

Release Date:2022-10-06

Character:Self

Broker

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 down to capture the crucial evidence.

Release Date:2022-06-08

Department:Editing

Job:Editor

Vote Count:469

My Small Land

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. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.

Release Date:2022-05-06

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:15

HAJIKERU

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 from Tokyo. Natsumi is drawn to Keiko and the two strikes up a friendship, finding relief in each other from the repressive community. Through Keiko, Natsumi discovers her own voice and agency, eventually fighting back against the prejudices and injustices society heaps upon women.

Release Date:2022-01-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

National Theatre Live: After Life

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 Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film, After Life is a surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live - and to die.

Release Date:2021-11-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Once upon a time... "Shoplifters"

Release Date:2021-05-19

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

The Center Lane

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.

Release Date:2021-03-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Any Crybabies Around?

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.

Release Date:2020-11-20

Department:Production

Job:Development Producer

Vote Count:9

A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura

Kasumi Arimura suddenly gets a break from filming and returns to her hometown for the first time in a long while. Her mother, Yumiko, comes to the train station to pick her up and they head for the family home.

Release Date:2020-03-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:5

The Truth

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 quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.

Release Date:2019-10-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:248

Kiki Kirin's Life

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 on September 26, 2006, adding previously unseen footage. She was loved all over Japan for her blunt remarks, her attentive concern for those around her, and her overflowing sense of humor. Despite her busy schedule, she valued her daily life and had her own unique style, even though she talked about life as it came. This film captures the last days of her life and gives us hints for living from her "life as it comes" and her many inspiring words.

Release Date:2019-10-04

I AM NON

YouTube Originals documentary on the making of "Get To The Punchline", the first film written and directed by Non (formerly, Nounen Rena). It covers the pre-production, 13-day shoot, and post-production of the film showing the wildly creative but inexperienced film-maker's struggles to make her first film.

Release Date:2019-10-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Junichi

Jun'ichi is a young man without job or home who seems to have a great power of fascination over woman. He crosses the paths of different women who are unsatisfied with their lives and find comfort in his presence. It is a subtle love story between Jun'ichi's drifting life and six different woman from 16 to 65 years old.

Release Date:2019-07-13

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:3

A Story on the Shore

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 for the next story quietly begins with the sound of soft sea breeze.

Release Date:2019-06-01

Character:Self

Ten Years Japan

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

Release Date:2018-11-03

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:2

Shoplifters

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

Release Date:2018-06-02

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2082

Movie Room

Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors where film and humanities intertwine.

Release Date:2018-05-04

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:5

The Third Murder

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

Release Date:2017-09-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:259

Ishibumi

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

Release Date:2016-07-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

After the Storm

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, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.

Release Date:2016-05-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:335

Song FUKUYAMA

Release Date:2015-10-04

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Our Little Sister

Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years – dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them.

Release Date:2015-06-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:489

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

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.

Release Date:2014-10-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:16

Homeland

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 long, members of his family come and join him.

Release Date:2014-03-01

Department:Production

Job:Consulting Producer

Vote Count:3

Like Father, Like Son

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.

Release Date:2013-09-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:718

Going My Home

Ryota, a timid salaryman who has difficulties fitting in at home and work has his average life changed after his estranged father falls ill. Along with his wife Sae and their only child Moe, he travels to his father's country town, where he begins to uncover his father's mysterious past spent searching for a mythical creature.

Release Date:2012-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:6

The Message from Fukushima

Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Release Date:2012-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Live Fukushima: Kaze to Rock Super Nomaoi

Release Date:2012-03-31

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman

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 tasks before his final departure: playing with his grandchildren, planning his own funeral, saying “I love you” to his wife, among others. In a voice over, using words taken from her father’s diary, filmmaker Sunada speaks tenderly in first person as the elder Sunada.

Release Date:2011-10-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

I Wish

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.

Release Date:2011-06-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:160

Kaidan Horror Classics

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

Release Date:2010-08-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

妖しき文豪怪談

Release Date:2010-08-23

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:1

Beautiful Islands

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 love their native lands. The film, which took three years to shoot, focuses on their daily lives. It portrays festivals that foster ties among the people, traditional crafts which have been passed on for generations, and peaceful lives by the water. They are all disappearing by climate change. When these people lose their homelands, their cultures and histories face death. Their lives in the midst of all the changes suggest where our future leads.

Release Date:2010-07-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Dead Son

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 Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda to the fantasy TV series Kaidan-Horror Classics, produced by NHK and NHK Enterprises.

Release Date:2010-04-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Air Doll

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 going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.

Release Date:2009-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:255

Making 'Still Walking'

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

Release Date:2009-01-23

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

So I Can Be Alright: Cocco's Endless Journey

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

Release Date:2008-12-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Still Walking

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

Release Date:2008-06-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:380

Sway

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

Release Date:2006-07-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:19

Hana

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. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation.

Release Date:2006-06-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:58

Series Constitution. Article 9: War Renunciation "Oblivion"

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 camera around in various places, including his father's hometown, Taiwan.It is a unique work that reflects the personal history deeply.

Release Date:2006-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Le Cercle

As long as there is cinema, LE CERCLE will be there. It is the only television program of critical debates 100% devoted to cinema. Each week, it offers fiery, joyful and non-condescending jousts on the films on the bill; and invites with "Le questionnaire du CERCLE" directors to come and share their passion for cinema.

Release Date:2005-03-04

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

A Making of Nobody Knows

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

Release Date:2004-12-23

Department:Camera

Job:Still Photographer

Character:Self

Nobody Knows

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.

Release Date:2004-08-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:539

Tobira no muko Rock kashu miyamoto hiroji to iu ikikata

Release Date:2004-04-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Wild Berries

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

Release Date:2003-09-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:7

Kakuto

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.

Release Date:2003-07-26

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Birthplace

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

Release Date:2003-04-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri

Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must be less than 10 minutes long" "at least five gags must be included"

Release Date:2003-03-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Distance

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.

Release Date:2001-05-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:51

After Life

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 to keep for eternity.

Release Date:1999-04-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:238

Without Memory

A father loses his short-term memory as the result of a botched medical procedure which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Koreeda chronicles his family’s fight to receive proper treatment and benefits from this devastating malpractice.

Release Date:1996-12-28

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Self

Vote Count:9

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

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 process, “What does a camera shoot? What does a film capture? The emptiness in my life reflects in my work.” Kawase concentrates on her everyday life and candid moments with her friends, who say, “Hang in there Naomi we are all on your side,” and, “You never keep the promises you make, but I love you anyway.”

Release Date:1996-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Maborosi

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

Release Date:1995-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:171

August Without Him

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 descent into illness and death.

Release Date:1994-08-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Yottsu no shibu jikoku

Release Date:1993-12-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Soul Sketches - Every Person's Kenji Miyazawa

Release Date:1993-12-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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

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 the driving force behind New Taiwanese Cinema. The closing of a cinema invites us to reflect on society and the passage of history.

Release Date:1993-09-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

I Wish I Could Be Japanese

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 story of a Korean man, who in the times of the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, is sent to Japan to fight along with the Japanese in the Philippines, but after the war and fearing discrimination, creates a Japanese identity for himself and manages to get married and have children without his family ever knowing about his origins for 50 years until he is arrested in 1985 for forging official documents and in suspicion of being a spy from North Korea. (…) © timegoesbyin.wordpress.com/tag/i-wanted-to-be-japanese

Release Date:1992-06-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Where Has All the Pollution Gone?

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 which resulted in a 17-year long court battle with the company. Filmmaker KORE-EDA Hirokazu traces one civil servant’s involvement in the growth of pollution administration that took place during the height of Japan’s economic surge in the 60s and discloses the connection between air pollution and state policy.

Release Date:1991-12-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Lessons from a Calf

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, nutrition and numerous other subjects. But after multiple years of investing energy and emotion into their beloved pet, the students begin to realize that the final days of their project may provide them with the hardest and most important lesson of all.

Release Date:1991-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

However...

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.

Release Date:1991-04-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Nonfix

Since the start of broadcasting in 1989, it is a documentary series that pursues the essence in the spirit of “NONFIX”. It is one of the few programs that can remove the shackles as a commercial broadcaster and directly reflect the message that the production side wants to convey to the program.There are many young and talented directors here, and "edgy works" capture the hearts of viewers every time.

Release Date:1989-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'

Release Date:1989-04-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:2