Hirokazu Kore-eda

Hirokazu Kore-eda

June 6, 1962 · 64 years old

Hirokazu Kore-eda (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 th…

Known For

21 titles
1
Monster

Monster

2023 · 2h 7m · Movie

A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.

8.6
2
Shoplifters

Shoplifters

2018 · 2h 1m · Movie

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar exist...

8.5
3
Our Little Sister

Our Little Sister

2015 · 2h 7m · Movie

Three sisters live together in Kamakura. When their father - absent for 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live wi...

8.1
4
After the Storm

After the Storm

2016 · 1h 58m · Movie

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

7.7
5
Nobody Knows

Nobody Knows

2004 · 2h 21m · Movie

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.

8.0
6
Like Father, Like Son

Like Father, Like Son

2013 · 2h 1m · Movie

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their...

7.8
7
The Third Murder

The Third Murder

2017 · 2h 4m · Movie

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

7.0
8
The Truth

The Truth

2019 · 1h 46m · Movie

A stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a daughter of a mother who never grows old.

6.6
9
Broker

Broker

2022 · 2h 9m · Movie

When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.

7.5
10
Still Walking

Still Walking

2008 · 1h 55m · Movie

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

7.9
11
After Life

After Life

1999 · 1h 59m · Movie

After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.

7.6
12
Air Doll

Air Doll

2009 · 2h 5m · Movie

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

6.9
13
I Wish

I Wish

2011 · 2h 8m · Movie

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.

7.3
14
Maborosi

Maborosi

1995 · 1h 50m · Movie

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.

7.5
15
Hana

Hana

2006 · 2h 7m · Movie

A troubled young samurai seeks revenge for the death of his father.

6.6
16
Distance

Distance

2001 · 2h 12m · Movie

Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of those affected by it meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved one...

6.8
17
My Small Land

My Small Land

2022 · 1h 54m · Movie

A Kurdish family is trying to navigate their lives in Japan while facing the difficulties of getting their visa approved and seeking refuge in a foreign country. A story, beautifully told, about who you are and how deep your roots...

7.1
18
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

2014 · 1h 49m · Movie

A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.

6.8
19
Wild Berries

Wild Berries

2003 · 1h 48m · Movie

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

6.7
20
Ten Years Japan

Ten Years Japan

2018 · 1h 38m · Movie

Five short 'film' stories of how 5 different directors imagine Japan to be in 10 years from now.

5.8
21
I Wish I Could Be Japanese

I Wish I Could Be Japanese

1992 · 49m · Movie

It depicts the difficulties of and social rejection faced by Koreans in Japan through the story of a Korean man named Park, who was sent to Japan as a soldier during World War II and continued to live there using factitious identity.

5.8