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Hirokazu Kore-eda
Writer 64 years old

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Tokyo, Japan

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... Read full bio →

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Beurokeo

Beurokeo

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2022 2h 9m 7.5

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 the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.

La vérité

La vérité

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2019 1h 46m

Screenwriter Lumir's stormy reunion with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, set against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographical book and her latest role in a science fiction movie, as the daughter of a woman who never ages.

Manbiki kazoku

Manbiki kazoku

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2018 2h 8.5

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 existence.

Sandome no satsujin

Sandome no satsujin

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2017 2h 5m 5.0

Shigemori is a lawyer tasked with defending Misumi in a murder trial. Misumi has previous convictions for murder and has confessed to the crime, but evidence in the case leads to Shigemori having doubts about what really happened.

Umi yori mo mada fukaku

Umi yori mo mada fukaku

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2016 1h 57m 8.0

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 Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment.

Umimachi Diary

Umimachi Diary

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2015 2h 7m 7.5

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister.

Soshite chichi ni naru

Soshite chichi ni naru

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2013 2h 8.0

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

Kiseki

Kiseki

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2011 2h 7m

Two young brothers at opposite ends of Kyushu devise a magical plan to reunite their separated parents.

Kûki ningyô

Kûki ningyô

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2009 1h 56m 7.5

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 Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.

Aruitemo aruitemo

Aruitemo aruitemo

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2008 1h 54m 9.0

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

Hana yori mo naho

Hana yori mo naho

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2006 2h 7m

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.

Dare mo shiranai

Dare mo shiranai

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2004 2h 21m 8.7

In Tokyo, the reckless single mother Keiko moves to a small apartment with her twelve years old son Akira Fukushima and hidden in the luggage, his siblings Kyoko, Shigeru and Yuki. The children have different fathers and do not have schooling, but they have a happy life with their mother.

Distance

Distance

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2001 2h 12m

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 cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.

Wandâfuru raifu

Wandâfuru raifu

Hirokazu Kore-eda 1998 1h 58m 7.0

After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity...

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