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HIROKAZU KOREEDA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 7, 2017
Filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda: ¡®I wanted to do something different¡¯
Hirokazu Koreeda is best known for intimate family dramas that overseas critics often compare to the work of Yasujiro Ozu (1903-63), the genre¡¯s unquestioned master. Koreeda rejects these comparisons, however, and says he feels more of a cinematic kinship to Mikio Naruse (1905-69), one of Ozu¡¯s contemporaries....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 6, 2017
¡®The Third Murder¡¯: Director Hirokazu Koreeda triumphs with a trial drama that keeps the focus on character
Murder mysteries are popular film and television fodder in Japan, but most revolve around puzzle plots that hold as much real-world probability as the cases of Sherlock Holmes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 21, 2016
A new wave of Japanese filmmakers matches the old
Nearly two decades after the Japanese New Wave of the 1990s, the directors who led it, including Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hirokazu Koreeda and Naomi Kawase, are still the local industry¡¯s most prominent faces abroad. But this year a new generation of filmmakers has finally started to make itself heard, with...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 13, 2016
¡®Ishibumi¡¯: Tragic history set in stone
An annual ritual on Japanese television on or around Aug. 6 is a number of special programs about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truth be told, after many years in this country I tune out more than I tune in. Just as the bombings were political acts, so are the many memorial programs...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 18, 2016
Koreeda discusses before and ¡®After the Storm¡¯
I¡¯ve interviewed the director Hirokazu Koreeda several times over the years since we first met at a preview screening of his otherworldly drama ¡°After Life¡± (¡°Wonderful Life,¡± 1999). Then and now his answers to even often-asked questions are always thoughtful and considered.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 11, 2016
¡®After the Storm¡¯: Koreeda¡¯s tempestuous family affairs
Hirokazu Koreeda has a reputation abroad as the one director of his generation carrying on the humanist tradition of Japanese cinema¡¯s 1950s and ¡®60s Golden Age. This is not totally off the mark ¡ª he often returns to that favorite Golden Age theme, family dissolution, but his take on it is quite different...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 23, 2015
Top 10 films of 2015: War, slackers and a love hotel
It¡¯s hard to be an optimist about the present state of Japanese cinema. One reason is the decline of the mid-budget film, previously the refuge of much quality work, with many talented directors going either fully commercial or extremely indie. Micro-budget films are not inferior per se but their subject...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 17, 2015
Hirokazu Koreeda on his new drama about women with ¡®shadows¡¯
When Hirokazu Koreeda¡¯s gently offbeat family drama ¡°Umimachi Diary¡± (¡°Our Little Sister¡°) was screened in competition at this year¡¯s Cannes Film Festival, both audiences and the media were enthusiastic ¡ª a story for the Reuters news agency described it as ¡°Palme d¡¯Or material.¡± But instead of being...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 26, 2013
Mark Schilling¡¯s 2013 Top 10: Farewell to Ghibli¡¯s anime masters
Japanese films did quite well both commercially and critically in 2013, with Hayao Miyazaki¡¯s final feature animation, ¡°Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises),¡± thumping the Hollywood competition at the local box office. But the industry¡¯s over-reliance on sure-thing manga, TV shows and novels for source material...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 27, 2013
Cannes jury prize goes to Koreeda¡¯s ¡®Like Father, Like Son¡¯
The Japanese film ¡°Like Father, Like Son (Soshite Chichi ni Naru)¡± directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, received the Prix du Jury at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival on Sunday.
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