Hirokazu Kore-eda
Also Known As: 고레에다 히로카즈, Koreeda Hirokazu, Хирокадзу Корээда, Χιροκάζου Κόρε-έντα, هيروكازو كوري إدا, Корееда Хірокадзу, هیروکازو کورئیدا, Kore-eda Hirokazu
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 under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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Birthplace

Overview: Makiko Esumi and Hirokazu Kore-eda revisit Wajima, the setting of 'Maborosi'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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A Making of Nobody Knows

Overview: The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-23
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Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

Overview: She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a “cold blonde actress”, thanks to great interviews of many artists who crossed her path.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-22
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Kiki Kirin's Life

Overview: 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 coverage of Ki-kin, and is a re-edited version of the NHK documentary of the same title that was broadcast on September 26, 2006, adding previously unseen footage. She was loved all over Japan for her blunt remarks, her attentive concern for those around her, and her overflowing sense of humor. Despite her busy schedule, she valued her daily life and had her own unique style, even though she talked about life as it came. This film captures the last days of her life and gives us hints for living from her "life as it comes" and her many inspiring words.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang

Overview: 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 the closed social milieu of martial law in Taiwan, he became immersed in music and yearned for freedom, arousing his desire to become a musician. Later, he decided to set out on a journey to learn more about the music that has been passed down through generations. Traveling around Taiwan, he learns traditional opera music from prestigious musicians and integrates it into his artistic creations, composing music and stories that belong to Taiwan…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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Jiseok

Overview: 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 business trip to the Cannes Film Festival. In the face of his unexpected demise, his old friends and colleagues in the film industry recall what tormented him in his last days.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

Overview: 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 cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Walking in the Movies

Overview: 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 civil servant, he dedicated his whole life to the sheer passion for films. With his deep commitment and instinctive creativity, he will keep “walking in the movies.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-05-16
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A Story on the Shore

Overview: 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 three seaside towns from Cannes, Okinawa and Chigasaki. His film was embraced by many people and the creation for the next story quietly begins with the sound of soft sea breeze.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-01
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Making 'Still Walking'

Overview: A documentary filmed behind the scenes during the making of Hirokasu Kore-eda's 2008 film "Still Walking."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-23
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Without Memory

Overview: A father loses his short-term memory as the result of a botched medical procedure which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Koreeda chronicles his family’s fight to receive proper treatment and benefits from this devastating malpractice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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Once upon a time... "Shoplifters"

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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-19
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