Hirokazu Koreeda

Hirokazu Kore-Eda (是枝裕和 "Kore-Eda Hirokazu", born in 1962 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. His films explore themes of memory, death, and coming to terms with loss.

Kore-Eda originally planned to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University instead worked as an assistant director making documentaries for TV Man Union. He sneaked off set to direct his first film, "Lessons from a Calf" (1991).

Has produced films for directors Miwa Nishikawa and Yusuke Iseya.

Filmography

# "Aruitemo aruitemo" (2008)
# "Hana yori mo naho" (2006)
# "Nobody Knows" ("Dare mo shiranai") (2004)
# "Distance" (2001)
# "After Life" ("Wandafuru Raifu") (1998)
# "Without Memory" (1996)
# "This World" (1996)
# "Maborosi" ("Maboroshi no hikari") (1995)
# "August Without Him" (1994)
# "However" (1991)
# "Lessons From a Calf" (1991)

Awards

* Golden Osella, Best Director (tied), 1995 Venice Film Festival
* Blue Ribbon Award, Best Director, for Dare mo shiranai (2004) Blue Ribbon Awards
* Blue Ribbon Award, Best Film, for Dare mo shiranai (2004) Blue Ribbon Awards
* Best Film, for Wandafuru raifu (1998) Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
* Best Screenplay, for Wandafuru raifu (1998) Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

Further reading

* "After Life" (Review) by Jonathan Ellis. "Film Quarterly", Vol. no. 57, Issue no. 1, pp. 32-37. ISSN 0015-1386.
* "This is your life: Tony Rayns interviews After Life's director Koreeda Hirokazu" "Sight & Sound", March 1999.

ee also

*Cinema of Japan

External links

* [http://www.kore-eda.com/ Official website] (in Japanese)
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