Hirokazu Kore-eda Movies

On May 18, 2017, the Busan International Film Festival’s Program Director Kim Jiseok died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack while...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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'

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...

Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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...

This movie (Executive Producer - KORE-EDA Hirokaz) looks at three beautiful islands, shaken by climate change: Tuvalu in the South Pacific, Venice in...