Hirokazu Koreeda
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Hirokazu Koreeda (是枝裕和 Koreeda 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.
Koreeda 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 snuck off set to direct his first film, Lessons from a Calf (1991).
Has produced films for directors Miwa Nishikawa and Yusuke Iseya.
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Filmography
- Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004)
- 帰ってきた刑事まつりはくれちゃった刑事 (2003)
- Distance (2001)
- After Life (1998)
- Without Memory (1996)
- This World (1996)
- Maborosi (1995)
- August Without Him (1994)
- However (1991)
- Lessons From a Calf (1991)
Awards
- Golden Osella, Best Director (tied), 1995 Venice Film Festival
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.
External links
- Official Website (in Japanese) (http://www.kore-eda.com/)
See also: Cinema of Japanja:是枝裕和