Biography
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 the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Like Father, Like Son and won the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hirokazu Kore-eda, licensed...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Last Scene
2025
Director, Writer, Editor
Screenwriter Kurata meets his granddaughter Yui, who has traveled 50 years into the past to warn him that if he doesn’t rewrite his TV drama script, t...

Walking in the Movies
2024
as Self
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 ...

Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang
2023
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 th...

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2023
as Self (archive footage)
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with ...

Monster
2023
Director, Editor, Executive Producer
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Jiseok
2022
as Self
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 bus...

Broker
2022
Editor, Screenplay, Director
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 t...

My Small Land
2022
Executive Producer
Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sa...

HAJIKERU
2022
Producer
Highschool graduate Natsumi lives in a provincial town with her estranged mother, working an unfulfilled job at a supermarket among gossips of conserv...

National Theatre Live: After Life
2021
Writer
A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged b...

Once upon a time... "Shoplifters"
2021
as Himself
How did an intimate film made on a modest budget win a Palme d'Or and attract 4 million viewers in Japan? With its principal craftsmen, including one-...

The Center Lane
2021
Director
Diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019, Japanese competitive swimmer Rikako Ikee returns to her destiny: the center lane, in Hirokazu Kore-eda's sho...

Any Crybabies Around?
2020
Development Producer
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.

The Truth
2019
Director, Screenplay, Editor
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 return...

Kiki Kirin's Life
2019
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 ...

A Story on the Shore
2019
as Self
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 thr...

Ten Years Japan
2018
Executive Producer
Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.

Shoplifters
2018
Producer, Director, Screenplay
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his ...

The Third Murder
2017
Director, Screenplay, Editor
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Ishibumi
2016
Director
A memorial to the atomic annihilation of 321 students at Hiroshima Middle School.

After the Storm
2016
Director, Editor, Original Concept
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 K...

Our Little Sister
2015
Director, Screenplay, Editor
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
as Self
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 cin...

Homeland
2014
Consulting Producer
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 vil...

Like Father, Like Son
2013
Director, Editor, Screenplay
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must mak...
The Message from Fukushima
2012
Director
Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Live Fukushima: Kaze to Rock Super Nomaoi
2012
Producer

Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman
2011
Producer
Recently retired from a company after some 40 years of service, Sunada Tomoaki, father of filmmaker Sunada Mami, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and...

I Wish
2011
Director, Screenplay, Editor
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 p...

Kaidan Horror Classics
2010
Director
Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

Beautiful Islands
2010
Executive Producer
This movie (Executive Producer - KORE-EDA Hirokaz) looks at three beautiful islands, shaken by climate change: Tuvalu in the South Pacific, Venice in ...

Dead Son
2010
Screenplay, Director
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 c...

Air Doll
2009
Director, Producer, Screenplay
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 Jun...

Making 'Still Walking'
2009
as Self
A documentary filmed behind the scenes during the making of Hirokasu Kore-eda's 2008 film "Still Walking."

So I Can Be Alright: Cocco's Endless Journey
2008
Director
A documentary about the J-pop / folk rock singer Cocco.

Still Walking
2008
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Sway
2006
Producer
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

Hana
2006
Director, Editor, Writer
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 s...
Series Constitution. Article 9: War Renunciation "Oblivion"
2006
Director
Part of the documentary project that each company competed on the theme of the Constitution of Japan.With the keyword "oblivion," Koreeda explores how...

A Making of Nobody Knows
2004
as Self
The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

A Making of Nobody Knows
2004
Still Photographer
The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Nobody Knows
2004
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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.
Tobira no muko Rock kashu miyamoto hiroji to iu ikikata
2004
Producer

Wild Berries
2003
Producer
A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

Kakuto
2003
Producer
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 ...

Birthplace
2003
as Self
Makiko Esumi and Hirokazu Kore-eda revisit Wajima, the setting of 'Maborosi'

Birthplace
2003
Director, Editor
Makiko Esumi and Hirokazu Kore-eda revisit Wajima, the setting of 'Maborosi'

Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
2003
Director
Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must b...

Distance
2001
Director, Editor, Writer
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...

After Life
1999
Director, Writer, Editor
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,...

Without Memory
1996
as Self
A father loses his short-term memory as the result of a botched medical procedure which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Koreeda chron...

Without Memory
1996
Producer, Director, Writer
A father loses his short-term memory as the result of a botched medical procedure which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Koreeda chron...
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996
Writer, Director of Photography, Director
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 ...

Maborosi
1995
Director, Producer
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

August Without Him
1994
Director
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 do...
Yottsu no shibu jikoku
1993
Director
Soul Sketches - Every Person's Kenji Miyazawa
1993
Director

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
1993
Director
From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a completely different approach to that of the commercia...

I Wish I Could Be Japanese
1992
Director
The film deals with the rights of Japanese-Koreans -born in Japan but without Japanese passport or nationality- and the social rejection that they fac...

Where Has All the Pollution Gone?
1991
Director
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....

Lessons from a Calf
1991
Director
An elementary school in Japan begins an experimental program that frames the students' curriculum around one single project: the raising of a calf fro...

However...
1991
Writer, Producer, Director
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 ...

Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
1989
Assistant Director