Hirokazu Kore-eda
Hirokazu Kore-eda 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, Still Walking, and After the Storm. 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.
Career
Before embarking on a career as a film director, Kore-eda worked as an assistant director on documentaries for television. He eventually transitioned into directing, and directed his first television documentary, Lessons from a Calf, in 1991. He directed several other documentary films thereafter.In 1995, at the Venice Film Festival, his first fiction feature film Maborosi won a Golden Osella Award for Best Cinematography. At the 1999 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, he won awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay for his film After Life.
In 2005, he won the Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film and Best Director for his film Nobody Knows. His 2008 film, Still Walking, also earned accolades, including Best Director at the 2009 Asian Film Awards.
His 2013 film, Like Father, Like Son, premiered and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It eventually did not win, but it won the Jury Prize, as well as a commendation from the Ecumenical Jury. In October 2013, the film won the Rogers People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Kore-eda's 2015 film, Our Little Sister, was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, though it did not win. His 2016 film, After the Storm, debuted to critical acclaim at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category. For his work on the film, he won the award for Best Director at the Yokohama Film Festival. Kore-eda won Best Film and Best Director Japan Academy Prizes for his film The Third Murder, which also screened in the main competition of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.
In 2018, his film, titled Shoplifters, about a young girl that is welcomed in by a family of shoplifters, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 2018, he won the Donostia Award for his lifetime achievement at San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Style and influences
According to the Harvard Film Archive, Kore-eda's works "reflect the contemplative style and pacing of such luminaries as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang".Kore-eda is most often compared to Yasujirō Ozu, although the director has said he feels influenced by Ken Loach and Japanese director Mikio Naruse.
In a 2009 interview, Kore-eda revealed that Still Walking is based on his own family.
Accolades
- 1995: Vancouver International Film Festival – Dragons and Tigers Award
- 1998: San Sebastian Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize
- 1998: Three Continents Festival – Golden Montgolfiere
- 1999: Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema – Best Film and Best Screenplay
- 2004: Flanders International Film Festival Ghent – Grand Prix
- 2005: Blue Ribbon Awards – Best Film and Best Director
- 2008: Mar del Plata International Film Festival – Best Film
- 2009: Asian Film Awards – Best Director
- 2009: Blue Ribbon Awards – Best Director
- 2011: San Sebastian Film Festival – Best Screenplay
- 2012: Asia-Pacific Film Festival – Best Director
- 2013: Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize
- 2013: Asia-Pacific Film Festival – Best Film and Best Director
- 2013: São Paulo International Film Festival – Audience Award Best Foreign Film
- 2013: Vancouver International Film Festival – Audience Award International Films
- 2013: Yokohama Film Festival – Best Screenplay
- 2015: San Sebastian Film Festival – Audience Award Best Film
- 2015: Yokohama Film Festival – Best Director
- 2016: Japan Academy Prize – Best Film and Best Director
- 2016: Films from the South – Best Film
- 2018: Japan Academy Prize – Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing
- 2018: Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or
- 2018: Los Angeles Film Critics Association – Best Foreign Film
- 2018: San Sebastián International Film Festival – Donostia Award
- 2018: Asia Pacific Screen Awards – Best Film
- 2018: Denver Film Festival – Best Film
- 2018: Filmfest München – Best International Film
- 2018: Films from the South – Audience Award
- 2018: Vancouver International Film Festival – Most Popular International Feature
- 2019: Asian Film Awards – Best Film
- 2019: Japan Academy Prize – Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay
- 2019: César Award – Best Foreign Film
- 2019: Guldbagge Awards – Best Foreign Film
Filmography
Film
Television
- Nonfix
- Without Memory
- Kaidan Horror Classics
- Going My Home
- Ishibumi
- Kasumi Arimura's Filming Break
Frequent collaborators
Actor / Actress | Maborosi | After Life | Distance | Nobody Knows | Hana | Still Walking | Air Doll | I Wish | Like Father, Like Son | Our Little Sister | After the Storm | The Third Murder | Shoplifters |
Hiroshi Abe | |||||||||||||
Arata | |||||||||||||
Tadanobu Asano | |||||||||||||
Akira Emoto | |||||||||||||
Lily Franky | |||||||||||||
Jun Fubuki | |||||||||||||
Masaharu Fukuyama | |||||||||||||
Yoshio Harada | |||||||||||||
Isao Hashizume | |||||||||||||
Suzu Hirose | |||||||||||||
Sosuke Ikematsu | |||||||||||||
Yūsuke Iseya | |||||||||||||
Ryo Kase | |||||||||||||
Kirin Kiki | |||||||||||||
Jun Kunimura | |||||||||||||
Yōko Maki | |||||||||||||
Masami Nagasawa | |||||||||||||
Takashi Naito | |||||||||||||
Yui Natsukawa | |||||||||||||
Joe Odagiri | |||||||||||||
Kazuya Takahashi | |||||||||||||
Susumu Terajima | |||||||||||||
Sayaka Yoshino | |||||||||||||
You | |||||||||||||
Matsuoka Izumi |