Hirokazu Kore-eda

Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝 裕和, Koreeda Hirokazu, born 6 June 1962)[1] 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[2] and won the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters.[3]

Hirokazu Kore-eda
是枝 裕和
Born (1962-06-06) 6 June 1962
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materWaseda University
OccupationFilm director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor
Years active1989–present
Japanese name
Hiraganaこれえだ ひろかず
Katakanaコレエダ ヒロカズ
Websitewww.kore-eda.com

Personal life

Kore-eda was born in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. He is the youngest of three children with two older sisters.[4] From a young age, Kore-eda would spend time watching movies with his mother. He said through an interpreter, “My mother loved films! She adored Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh. We couldn’t afford to go together to the cinema, but she was always watching their movies on TV. She stopped all family business or discussions to watch these movies. We would watch together. So I adored film – like her.”[5]

After graduating from from Waseda University's Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences in 1987, Kore-eda worked on documentaries, where he was subject to aggressive management. He has since endeavoured to avoid becoming angry on his sets and to encourage a happy work environment.

Kore-eda was married in 2002 and has one daughter, born in 2007.[4]

Kore-eda's father was a wansei born in Taipei, Taiwan. His paternal grandparents could not marry under Japanese law at the time as they had the same last name, so they eloped to Taiwan where they could, which was then under Japanese colonial rule.[6] He has cited this as a reason for his affinity toward Taiwan.[7]

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.[8]

In 1995, at the Venice Film Festival, his first fiction feature film Maborosi won a Golden Osella Award for Best Cinematography.[9] At the first Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema in 1999,[10] he won awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay for his film After Life.[11]

In 2005, he won the Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film and Best Director for his film Nobody Knows.[12] His 2008 film, Still Walking, also earned accolades, including Best Director at the 2009 Asian Film Awards,[13] and the Golden Ástor for Best Film at the 2008 Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[14]

His 2013 film, Like Father, Like Son, premiered and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It eventually did not win, but it won the Jury Prize,[15] as well as a commendation from the Ecumenical Jury.[16] In October 2013, the film won the Rogers People's Choice Award at the 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival.[17]

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.[18] His 2016 film, After the Storm, debuted to critical acclaim at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category.[19] For his work on the film, he won the award for Best Director at the Yokohama Film Festival.[20] Kore-eda won Best Film and Best Director Japan Academy Prizes for his film The Third Murder (2017), which also screened in the main competition of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.[21]

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.[3] It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[22]

In 2018, he won the Donostia Award for his lifetime achievement at San Sebastián International Film Festival.[23]

In 2019, Kore-eda directed The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke. It is his first film shot in Europe and not in his native language.[24]

In 2020, it was announced that he will direct Baby, Box, Broker. The film will be set in South Korea, featuring a predominantly South Korean cast and crew. [25]

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".[26]

Kore-eda is most often compared to Yasujirō Ozu, although the directors he has said he feels influenced by are Ken Loach and Japanese director Mikio Naruse.[5]

In a 2009 interview, Kore-eda revealed that Still Walking is based on his own family.[27]

Accolades

Filmography

Film
Hirokazu Kore-eda at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
Year Film Credited as Notes
Director Screenwriter Editor Producer
1991 Lessons from a Calf Yes No No No Documentary
1991 However... Yes No No Yes Documentary
1994 August without Him Yes No No No Documentary
1995 Maborosi Yes No No No
1998 After Life Yes Yes Yes No
2001 Distance Yes Yes Yes No
2004 Nobody Knows Yes Yes Yes Yes
2006 Hana Yes Yes Yes No
2008 Still Walking Yes Yes Yes No
2008 Daijōbu Dearu Yō ni: Cocco Owaranai Tabi Yes No No No Documentary
2009 Air Doll Yes Yes Yes Yes
2011 I Wish Yes Yes Yes No
2012 The Message from Fukushima (short) Yes No No No Documentary
2013 Like Father, Like Son Yes Yes Yes No
2015 Our Little Sister Yes Yes Yes No
2016 After the Storm Yes Yes Yes No
2017 The Third Murder Yes Yes Yes No
2018 Shoplifters Yes Yes Yes Yes
2019 The Truth Yes Yes Yes No French film
TBA Baby, Box, Broker Yes Yes No No Korean film

Television
  • Nonfix (1991)
  • Without Memory (1996)
  • Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)
  • Going My Home (2012)
  • Ishibumi (2015)
  • Kasumi Arimura's Filming Break (episode 1, 2020)

Frequent collaborators

Kore-eda often casts the same actors in his narrative films, in particular Kirin Kiki and Susumu Terajima, both of whom have appeared in six of Kore-eda's films. Other performers who have collaborated with Kore-eda on multiple films include Hiroshi Abe, Arata, Tadanobu Asano, Lily Franky, Isao Hashizume, Ryo Kase, and Yui Natsukawa.

Actor / Actress Maborosi (1995) After Life (1998) Distance (2001) Nobody Knows (2004) Hana (2006) Still Walking (2008) Air Doll (2009) I Wish (2011) Like Father, Like Son (2013) Our Little Sister (2015) After the Storm (2016) The Third Murder (2017) Shoplifters (2018) The Truth (2019) Baby, Box, Broker (TBA)
Hiroshi Abe N N N
Arata N N N N
Tadanobu Asano N N N
Bae Doona N N
Akira Emoto N N
Lily Franky N N N N
Jun Fubuki N N
Masaharu Fukuyama N N
Yoshio Harada N N
Isao Hashizume N N N
Suzu Hirose N N
Sosuke Ikematsu N N
Yūsuke Iseya N N
Ryo Kase N N N
Kirin Kiki N N N N N N
Jun Kunimura N N
Yōko Maki N N
Masami Nagasawa N N
Takashi Naito N N
Yui Natsukawa N N N N
Joe Odagiri N N
Kazuya Takahashi N N
Susumu Terajima N N N N N N
Sayaka Yoshino N N
You N N
Matsuoka Izumi N N N

References
  1. "是枝裕和監督の妻（嫁）や娘は？新作・次回作も調査！学歴は早稲田？" (in Japanese).
  2. "2013 Official Selection". Festival de Cannes. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  3. Debruge, Peter (19 May 2018). "Japanese Director Hirokazu Kore-eda's 'Shoplifters' Wins Palme d'Or at Cannes". Variety. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  4. "是枝裕和　監督" (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. "Hirokazu Kore-eda: 'They compare me to Ozu. But I'm more like Ken Loach'". 21 May 2015.
  6. 楊, 惠君; 謝, 璇. "專訪是枝裕和：我期待有一天，拍出屬於自己的《悲情城市》". The Reporter. Retrieved 8 February 2021. 祖父母因為同姓氏無法在日本結婚，當年從奄美大島「私奔」到高雄後生下他父親，身為「灣生」後代的是枝裕和，卻是在侯孝賢的電影裡取得與父親成長的連結，視台灣如另一個故鄉。
  7. Frater, Patrick (3 November 2020). "Koreeda Hirokazu and Huang Xi Share a Hou Hsiao-hsien Moment". Variety. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  8. Gerow, Aaron. "Documentarists of Japan #12: Koreeda Hirokazu". Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  9. "Venice Film Festival 1995". mubi.com. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  10. "Buenos Aires International Film Festival". festagent.com. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  11. "After Life (1998) awards & festivals on MUBI". mubi.com. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  12. tokyoguy (3 February 2005). "Rie Takes Blue Ribbon". japan-zone.com. Japan Zone. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  13. Coonan, Clifford (23 March 2009). "Japan shines at Asian Film Awards". variety.com. Variety. Retrieved 5 February 2021. ... Hirokazu Kore-eda nabbed the director honor for “Still Walking.”
  14. "Still Walking (2008) awards & festivals on MUBI". mubi.com. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  15. "Cannes Film Festival: Awards 2013". Cannes. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  16. "Cannes: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' Wins Fipresci Prize". Variety. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  17. Tomlin, Raymond. "VIFF 2013: Award Winners Announced for 2013 Film Festival". www.vanramblings.com. Van Ramblings.
  18. "2015 Official Selection". Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015.
  19. Lee, Maggie (21 May 2016). "Cannes Film Review: 'After the Storm'". Variety. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  20. 「海街diary」が5冠、「お盆の弟」が4冠 (in Japanese). Nikkan Sports News. Archived from the original on 6 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  21. "Venice Competition Includes Films From George Clooney, Guillermo del Toro, Darren Aronofsky". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  22. Dove, Steve (22 January 2019). "Foreign Language Film Oscar 2019 Nominees Include Roman, Cold War & More". oscar.go.com. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  23. "66th San Sebastian Film Festival 2018 Awards". sansebastianfestival.com. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  24. Wiseman, Andreas (16 July 2018). "Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke & Catherine Deneuve To Star In 'The Truth' Palme d'Or Winner Hirokazu Kore-eda". Deadline. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  25. https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/song-kang-ho-hirokazu-kore-eda-korean-movie-1234582548/
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  27. Interview with Hirokazu Kore-eda, MUBI.com; accessed 27 February 2018.

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