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Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝 裕和, Koreeda Hirokazu, born 6 June 1962)[1] 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[2] and won the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters.[3]

Hirokazu Kore-eda
是枝 裕和
Kore-eda at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Born	(1962-06-06) 6 June 1962 (age 60) Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater	Waseda University
Occupation	Film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor
Years active	1991–present
Japanese name
Hiragana	これえだ ひろかず
Katakana	コレエダ ヒロカズ
Transcriptions Romanization Koreeda Hirokazu
Website	www.kore-eda.com

Personal life

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Kore-eda's father was a wansei[nb 1]. His paternal grandparents could not marry under Japanese law at the time as they had the same last name, so they eloped to Taiwan where they could, which was then under Japanese colonial rule.[4] He has cited this as a reason for his affinity toward Taiwan.[5]

Kore-eda was born in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. He is the youngest of three children with two older sisters.[6] From a young age, Kore-eda would spend time watching movies with his mother. He said through an interpreter, "My mother loved films! She adored Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh. We couldn’t afford to go together to the cinema, but she was always watching their movies on TV. She stopped all family business or discussions to watch these movies. We would watch together. So I adored film – like her."[7]

After graduating from Waseda University's Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences in 1987, Kore-eda worked on documentaries, where he was subject to aggressive management. He has cited this as being the reason he tries to avoid becoming angry on his sets and to encourage a happy work environment.

Kore-eda was married in 2002 and has one daughter, born in 2007.[6]

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.[8]

In 1995, at the Venice Film Festival, his first fiction feature film Maborosi won a Golden Osella Award for Best Cinematography.[9] At the first Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema in 1999,[10] he won awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay for his film After Life.[11]

In 2005, he won the Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film and Best Director for his film Nobody Knows.[12] His 2008 film, Still Walking, also earned accolades, including Best Director at the 2009 Asian Film Awards,[13] and the Golden Ástor for Best Film at the 2008 Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[14]

His 2013 film, Like Father, Like Son, premiered and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It eventually did not win, but it won the Jury Prize,[15] as well as a commendation from the Ecumenical Jury.[16] In October 2013, the film won the Rogers People's Choice Award at the 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival.[17]

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.[18] His 2016 film, After the Storm, debuted to critical acclaim at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category.[19] For his work on the film, he won the award for Best Director at the Yokohama Film Festival.[20] 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.[21]

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.[3] It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[22]

In 2018, he won the Donostia Award for his lifetime achievement at San Sebastián International Film Festival.[23]

In 2019, Kore-eda directed The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke. It is his first film shot in Europe and not in his native language.[24]

In 2020, it was announced that he will direct Broker. The film will be set in South Korea, featuring a predominantly South Korean cast and crew.[25] It is scheduled to be released on June 8, 2022.[26] The film has been chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.

In January 2022, it was announced that Kore-eda would be working with a team of directors including Megumi Tsuno, Hiroshi Okuyama, and Takuma Sato on a nine-episode series called Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, adapted from the manga Kiyo in Kyoto.[27]

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".[28]

Kore-eda is most often compared to Yasujirō Ozu, although the directors he has said he feels influenced by are Ken Loach and Japanese director Mikio Naruse.[7]

In a 2009 interview, Kore-eda revealed that Still Walking is based on his own family.[29]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Credited as				Notes
		Director	Screenwriter	Editor	Producer
1991	Lessons from a Calf	Yes	No	No	No	Documentary
1991	However...	Yes	No	No	Yes	Documentary
1994	August without Him	Yes	No	No	No	Documentary
1995	Maborosi	Yes	No	No	Yes
1998	After Life	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2001	Distance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2004	Nobody Knows	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2006	Hana	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2008	Still Walking	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2008	Daijōbu Dearu Yō ni: Cocco Owaranai Tabi	Yes	No	No	No	Documentary
2009	Air Doll	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2011	I Wish	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2012	The Message from Fukushima (short)	Yes	No	No	No	Documentary
2013	Like Father, Like Son	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2015	Our Little Sister	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2016	After the Storm	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017	The Third Murder	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2018	Shoplifters	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2019	The Truth	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	French film
2022	Broker	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	South Korean film

Television

• Nonfix (1991)
• Without Memory (1996)
• Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)
• Going My Home (2012)[30]
• Ishibumi (2015)[31]
• A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura (2020; episode 1, 3)[32]
• The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (2023)[33]

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)[20]
• 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)

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)	Broker (2022)
Hiroshi Abe
Arata
Tadanobu Asano
Bae Doona
Akira Emoto
Lily Franky
Jun Fubuki
Masaharu Fukuyama
Yoshio Harada
Isao Hashizume
Suzu Hirose
Sosuke Ikematsu
Yūsuke Iseya
Ryo Kase
Kirin Kiki
Jun Kunimura
Yōko Maki
Masami Nagasawa
Takashi Naito
Yui Natsukawa
Joe Odagiri
Kazuya Takahashi
Susumu Terajima
Sayaka Yoshino
You
Matsuoka Izumi

Notes

References

Further reading

• Ehrlich, Linda (2019). The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-3-030-33051-4.
• 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.

External links

• Official website
• Hirokazu Kore-eda at IMDb
• Hirokazu Kore-eda at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

На других языках

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[de] Hirokazu Koreeda

Hirokazu Koreeda (jap. .mw-parser-output .Hani{font-size:110%}是枝 裕和, Koreeda Hirokazu; * 6. Juni 1962 in Kiyose, Präfektur Tokio, Japan), häufig auch Kore-eda geschrieben, ist ein japanischer Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor, Filmeditor und Filmproduzent, der international zahlreiche Festivalpreise gewann.[1]

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[ru] Корээда, Хирокадзу

Хирокадзу Корээда (яп. 是枝 裕和 Корээда Хирокадзу, англ. Hirokazu Kore-eda, род. 1962, Токио) — японский кинорежиссёр и продюсер. Его фильмы раскрывают темы смерти, памяти и примирения с потерей. Также одной из главных тем творчества Корээды является тема семьи и взаимоотношений в ней.

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