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Hirokazu Kore-edaHirokazu Kore-eda (是枝 裕和, Koreeda Hirokazu, born 6 June 1962) is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including Nobody Knows (2004), Still Walking (2008), and After the Storm (2016). He won the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Like Father, Like Son and won the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters.
Career
Before embarking on a career as a film director, Kore-eda worked as an assistant director on documentaries for television. He eventually transitioned into directing, and directed his first television documentary, Lessons from a Calf, in 1991. He directed several other documentary films thereafter.
In 1995, at the Venice Film Festival, his first fiction feature film Maborosi won a Golden Osella Award for Best Cinematography. At the 1999 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, he won awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay for his film After Life.
In 2005, he won the Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film and Best Director for his film Nobody Knows. His 2008 film, Still Walking, also earned accolades, including Best Director at the 2009 Asian Film Awards.
His 2013 film, Like Father, Like Son, premiered and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It eventually did not win, but it won the Jury Prize, as well as a commendation from the Ecumenical Jury. In October 2013, the film won the Rogers People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Kore-eda's 2015 film, Our Little Sister, was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, though it did not win. His 2016 film, After the Storm, debuted to critical acclaim at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category. For his work on the film, he won the award for Best Director at the Yokohama Film Festival. Kore-eda won Best Film and Best Director Japan Academy Prizes for his film The Third Murder (2017), which also screened in the main competition of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.
In 2018, his film, titled Shoplifters, about a young girl that is welcomed in by a family of shoplifters, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 2018, he won the Donostia Award for his lifetime achievement at San Sebastián International Film Festival.
In 2020, it was announced that he will direct Baby, Box, Broker. The film will be set in South Korea, featuring a predominantly South Korean cast and crew.
Style and influences
According to the Harvard Film Archive, Kore-eda's works "reflect the contemplative style and pacing of such luminaries as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang".
Kore-eda is most often compared to Yasujirō Ozu, although the director has said he feels influenced by Ken Loach and Japanese director Mikio Naruse.
In a 2009 interview, Kore-eda revealed that Still Walking is based on his own family.
Accolades
- 1995: Vancouver International Film Festival – Dragons and Tigers Award (Maborosi)
- 1998: San Sebastian Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize (After Life)
- 1998: Three Continents Festival – Golden Montgolfiere (After Life)
- 1999: Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema – Best Film and Best Screenplay (After Life)
- 2004: Flanders International Film Festival Ghent – Grand Prix (Nobody Knows)
- 2005: Blue Ribbon Awards – Best Film and Best Director (Nobody Knows)
- 2008: Mar del Plata International Film Festival – Best Film (Still Walking)
- 2009: Asian Film Awards – Best Director (Still Walking)
- 2009: Blue Ribbon Awards – Best Director (Still Walking)
- 2011: San Sebastian Film Festival – Best Screenplay (I Wish)
- 2012: Asia-Pacific Film Festival – Best Director (I Wish)
- 2013: Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize (Like Father, Like Son)
- 2013: Asia-Pacific Film Festival – Best Film and Best Director (Like Father, Like Son)
- 2013: São Paulo International Film Festival – Audience Award Best Foreign Film (Like Father, Like Son)
- 2013: Vancouver International Film Festival – Audience Award International Films (Like Father, Like Son)
- 2013: Yokohama Film Festival – Best Screenplay (Like Father, Like Son)
- 2015: San Sebastian Film Festival – Audience Award Best Film (Our Little Sister)
- 2015: Yokohama Film Festival – Best Director (Our Little Sister)
- 2016: Japan Academy Prize – Best Film and Best Director (Our Little Sister)
- 2016: Films from the South – Best Film (After the Storm)
- 2018: Japan Academy Prize – Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing (The Third Murder)
- 2018: Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or (Shoplifters)
- 2018: Los Angeles Film Critics Association – Best Foreign Film (Shoplifters)
- 2018: San Sebastián International Film Festival – Donostia Award
- 2018: Asia Pacific Screen Awards – Best Film (Shoplifters)
- 2018: Denver Film Festival – Best Film (Shoplifters)
- 2018: Filmfest München – Best International Film (Shoplifters)
- 2018: Films from the South – Audience Award (Shoplifters)
- 2018: Vancouver International Film Festival – Most Popular International Feature (Shoplifters)
- 2019: Asian Film Awards – Best Film (Shoplifters)
- 2019: Japan Academy Prize – Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (Shoplifters)
- 2019: César Award – Best Foreign Film (Shoplifters)
- 2019: Guldbagge Awards – Best Foreign Film (Shoplifters)
Filmography
Film
| Year | Film | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Screenwriter | Editor | Producer | |||
| 1991 | Lessons from a Calf | Yes | Documentary | |||
| 1991 | However... | Yes | Yes | Documentary | ||
| 1994 | August without Him | Yes | Documentary | |||
| 1995 | Maborosi | Yes | ||||
| 1998 | After Life | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2001 | Distance | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2004 | Nobody Knows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2006 | Hana | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2008 | Still Walking | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2008 | Daijōbu Dearu Yō ni: Cocco Owaranai Tabi | Yes | Documentary | |||
| 2009 | Air Doll | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2011 | I Wish | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2012 | The Message from Fukushima (short) | Yes | Documentary | |||
| 2013 | Like Father, Like Son | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2015 | Our Little Sister | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2016 | After the Storm | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2017 | The Third Murder | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2018 | Shoplifters | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2019 | The Truth | Yes | Yes | Yes | French film | |
| TBA | Baby, Box, Broker | Yes | Yes | Korean film | ||
Television
- Nonfix (1991)
- Without Memory (1996)
- Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)
- Going My Home (2012)
- Ishibumi (2015)
- Kasumi Arimura's Filming Break (episode 1, 2020)
Frequent collaborators
Kore-eda often casts the same actors in his narrative films, in particular Kirin Kiki and Susumu Terajima, both of whom have appeared in six of Kore-eda's films. Other performers who have collaborated with Kore-eda on multiple films include Hiroshi Abe, Arata, Tadanobu Asano, Lily Franky, Isao Hashizume, Ryo Kase, and Yui Natsukawa.
| Actor / Actress | Maborosi (1995) | After Life (1998) | Distance (2001) | Nobody Knows (2004) | Hana (2006) | Still Walking (2008) | Air Doll (2009) | I Wish (2011) | Like Father, Like Son (2013) | Our Little Sister (2015) | After the Storm (2016) | The Third Murder (2017) | Shoplifters (2018) | The Truth (2019) | Baby, Box, Broker (TBA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiroshi Abe | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Arata | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Tadanobu Asano | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Bae Doona | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Akira Emoto | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Lily Franky | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Jun Fubuki | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Masaharu Fukuyama | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Yoshio Harada | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Isao Hashizume | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Suzu Hirose | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Sosuke Ikematsu | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Yūsuke Iseya | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Ryo Kase | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Kirin Kiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Jun Kunimura | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Yōko Maki | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Masami Nagasawa | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Takashi Naito | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Yui Natsukawa | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Joe Odagiri | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Kazuya Takahashi | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Susumu Terajima | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Sayaka Yoshino | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| You | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Matsuoka Izumi | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Personal life
It is said Kore-eda has married and has a daughter (born in 2007).
References
- ^ Gerow, Aaron. "Documentarists of Japan #12: Koreeda Hirokazu". Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "2013 Official Selection". Festival de Cannes. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival: Awards 2013". Cannes. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ "Cannes: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' Wins Fipresci Prize". Variety. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ Tomlin, Raymond. "VIFF 2013: Award Winners Announced for 2013 Film Festival". www.vanramblings.com. Van Ramblings.
- ^ "2015 Official Selection". Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015.
- ^ Lee, Maggie (21 May 2016). "Cannes Film Review: 'After the Storm'". Variety. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ a b 「海街diary」が5冠、「お盆の弟」が4冠 (in Japanese). Nikkan Sports News. Archived from the original on 6 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ^ "Venice Competition Includes Films From George Clooney, Guillermo del Toro, Darren Aronofsky". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ Debruge, Peter (19 May 2018). "Japanese Director Hirokazu Kore-eda's 'Shoplifters' Wins Palme d'Or at Cannes". Variety. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/song-kang-ho-hirokazu-kore-eda-korean-movie-1234582548/
- ^ "The Films of Hirokazu Koreeda". Harvard Film Archive. 25 February 2005. Archived from the original on 12 January 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ "Hirokazu Kore-eda: 'They compare me to Ozu. But I'm more like Ken Loach'". 21 May 2015.
- ^ Interview with Hirokazu Kore-eda, MUBI.com; accessed 27 February 2018.
- ^ おまとめコレクション
Further reading
- Ellis, Jonathan. "After Life" (Review). Film Quarterly, Vol. 57, Issue no. 1, pp. 32–37. ISSN 0015-1386.
- "This is your life: Tony Rayns interviews After Life's director Koreeda Hirokazu". Sight & Sound. March 1999.
- Martonova, Andronika (2016). "Boys don't cry: the image of the children as a social problem in Hirokazu Koreeda’s films". Central Asian Journal of Art Studies, pр. 55–64.