Kore'eda Hirokazu's films, ranked
Kore'eda and Sono Shion, though very different, are my two favorite contemporary Japanese film makers. They are both poets. Sono is a guerilla style street poet, and Kore'eda is a reserved visual poet.
List activity
11K views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
10 titles
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMakiko EsumiTakashi NaitôTadanobu AsanoA young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.This is the film where people come here and see the movie poster and say "So that's what she looks like". Kore'eda casts a model in his (and her) feature film debut and almost never photographs her face. This is a gorgeous film, one of the most painterly films you're likely to see. It's dark (in numerous ways), sad, slow, and ... beautiful.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsArata IuraErika OdaSusumu TerajimaAfter death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.The wrap-up isn't the best, but the idea is wonderful, and all the characters (both 'real' people and actors) are a genuine pleasure to meet.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsHaruka AyaseMasami NagasawaKahoThree sisters who live in their grandmother's home invite their thirteen-year-old half sister, whom they have just met, to join them.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsBae DoonaArata IuraItsuji ItaoA life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.Bae Doo-na nails the part. This is a lot more of a sad film than a kinky one.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsHiroshi AbeYui NatsukawaYouA family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.So simple. And elegant.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMasaharu FukuyamaMachiko OnoYôko MakiRyota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsYûya YagiraAyu KitauraHiei KimuraIn a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsHiroshi AbeYôko MakiSatomi KobayashiAfter the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsJun'ichi OkadaRie MiyazawaArata FurutaA troubled young samurai seeks revenge for the death of his father.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsArata IuraYûsuke IseyaSusumu TerajimaMembers of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of those affected by it meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.