Hirokazu Kore-eda

Hirokazu Kore-eda

1962-06-06 Tokyo, Japan 63 Credits

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...

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Last Scene

Last Scene

2025

Director, Writer, Editor

5.8
Directing Writing

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

Walking in the Movies

2024

as Self

10.0
Acting

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

Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang

2023

Acting

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

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

2023

as Self (archive footage)

7.3
Acting

She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with ...

Monster

Monster

2023

Director, Editor, Executive Producer

8.0
Directing Producing

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Jiseok

Jiseok

2022

as Self

Acting

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

Broker

2022

Editor, Screenplay, Director

7.2
Writing Directing

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

My Small Land

2022

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

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

HAJIKERU

2022

Producer

Producing

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

National Theatre Live: After Life

2021

Writer

Writing

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"

Once upon a time... "Shoplifters"

2021

as Himself

10.0
Acting

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

The Center Lane

2021

Director

6.2
Directing

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?

Any Crybabies Around?

2020

Development Producer

5.6
Producing

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

The Truth

2019

Director, Screenplay, Editor

6.0
Directing Writing

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

Kiki Kirin's Life

2019

Acting

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

A Story on the Shore

2019

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

Ten Years Japan

2018

Executive Producer

3.5
Producing

Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.

Shoplifters

Shoplifters

2018

Producer, Director, Screenplay

7.8
Producing Directing Writing

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

The Third Murder

2017

Director, Screenplay, Editor

6.6
Directing Writing

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Ishibumi

Ishibumi

2016

Director

5.5
Directing

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

After the Storm

After the Storm

2016

Director, Editor, Original Concept

7.2
Directing Writing

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

Our Little Sister

2015

Director, Screenplay, Editor

7.6
Directing Writing

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

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

2014

as Self

7.1
Acting

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

Homeland

2014

Consulting Producer

5.7
Producing

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

Like Father, Like Son

2013

Director, Editor, Screenplay

7.7
Directing Writing

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

Directing

Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Live Fukushima: Kaze to Rock Super Nomaoi

2012

Producer

Producing
Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman

Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman

2011

Producer

8.0
Producing

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

I Wish

2011

Director, Screenplay, Editor

7.3
Directing Writing

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

Kaidan Horror Classics

2010

Director

7.0
Directing

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

Beautiful Islands

Beautiful Islands

2010

Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

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

Dead Son

2010

Screenplay, Director

Writing Directing

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

Air Doll

2009

Director, Producer, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Producing Writing

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'

Making 'Still Walking'

2009

as Self

8.0
Acting

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

So I Can Be Alright: Cocco's Endless Journey

2008

Director

4.8
Directing

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

Still Walking

Still Walking

2008

Director, Screenplay, Original Story

7.8
Directing Writing

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

Sway

Sway

2006

Producer

6.0
Producing

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

Hana

Hana

2006

Director, Editor, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

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

Directing

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

A Making of Nobody Knows

2004

as Self

Acting

The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

A Making of Nobody Knows

A Making of Nobody Knows

2004

Still Photographer

The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Nobody Knows

Nobody Knows

2004

Director, Screenplay, Producer

8.0
Directing Writing Producing

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

Producing
Wild Berries

Wild Berries

2003

Producer

6.4
Producing

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

Kakuto

Kakuto

2003

Producer

Producing

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

Birthplace

2003

as Self

Acting

Makiko Esumi and Hirokazu Kore-eda revisit Wajima, the setting of 'Maborosi'

Birthplace

Birthplace

2003

Director, Editor

Directing

Makiko Esumi and Hirokazu Kore-eda revisit Wajima, the setting of 'Maborosi'

Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri

Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri

2003

Director

Directing

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

Distance

2001

Director, Editor, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

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

After Life

1999

Director, Writer, Editor

7.2
Directing Writing

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

Without Memory

1996

as Self

6.4
Acting

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

Without Memory

1996

Producer, Director, Writer

6.4
Producing Directing Writing

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

1.0
Writing Directing

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

Maborosi

1995

Director, Producer

7.4
Directing Producing

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

August Without Him

1994

Director

5.4
Directing

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

Directing

Soul Sketches - Every Person's Kenji Miyazawa

1993

Director

Directing
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang

1993

Director

6.7
Directing

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

I Wish I Could Be Japanese

1992

Director

5.8
Directing

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?

Where Has All the Pollution Gone?

1991

Director

Directing

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

Lessons from a Calf

1991

Director

5.9
Directing

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...

However...

1991

Writer, Producer, Director

6.1
Writing Producing Directing

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'

Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'

1989

Assistant Director

4.2
Directing