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Hirokazu Kore-eda
Quietly powerful family dramas, including Nobody Knows, Still Walking and Shoplifters.
Nobody Knows · Still Walking
- Born
- 6 June 1962
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
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Hirokazu Kore-eda
Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese filmmaker whose stories often ask what makes a family and who is left outside it.
Early life
Tokyo childhood
Watching films on television with his mother helped form his interest in cinema.
University
He studied at Waseda University before entering television production.
Career
- 1980s–1990s
Documentary work
He began at TV Man Union, making television documentaries.
- 1995
Feature debut
Maborosi introduced his fiction filmmaking.
- 2000s onward
Family dramas
His features gained international recognition, culminating in Shoplifters’ Palme d’Or.
Selected work
Nobody Knows
Children attempt to survive after being left without parental care.
Still Walking
A family gathering reveals longstanding grief and resentment.
Shoplifters
An improvised household survives through petty theft.
Beyond work
Personal memories
Still Walking draws on experiences of his own family.
Documentary roots
He has continued examining public life through documentary projects as well as fiction.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biographical dates and identifiers ↗Cannes: awards 2018 ↗Photo: Kevin Paul. CC BY 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
