Director focus #1 - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Here i shall begin a series of posts devoted to the directors i collect, i hope maybe some will find something they enjoy, and value, regardless of how poorly i present things.
Modern Japanese cinema has a few stand out names, and Kore-eda is one of them. At first i saw comparisons to the great classic director Ozu, but in a interview he singled out Naruse and Ken Loach as more inspirational.
These are the titles i was able to find on Blu-ray, and all of them need to be seen around 3 or 4 times each before anything in-depth could be said.
A few traits of his cinema are that they are quiet, slow, warm, gentle, family dramas. One of his strengths is his directing of children. Expert Tony Rayns in the I Wish introduction sees his later films disparagingly as soap operas, that made me angry with Tony. Like HOW DARE he criticize him, j/k, it's no longer a critic if they can't be critical.
This Sunday morning, i begin re-watching those i've seen, letting these soak in, and perhaps i will edit in thoughts pertaining to each and so on, or leave the title list alone cuz it looks nice and handy that way and elaborate below it.
Ladies and gentlemen, film lovers of the whole wide world on the world wide web, i give you one of Japan's finest - Hirokazu Kore-eda
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1. Maborosi - 1995
2. After Life - 1998
3. Nobody Knows - 2004
4. Still Walking - 2008
5. Air Doll - 2009
6. I Wish - 2011
7. Like Father, Like Son - 2013
8. Our Little Sister - 2015
9. After the Storm - 2016
10. The Third Murder - 2017
11. Shoplifters - 2018
12. The Truth - 2019
Without Memory - 1996
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3VnZ4IV7Y4]
Distance - 2001
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_yidMhCAc]
Hana - 2006
https://m4uhd.tv/watch-movie-hana-2006-222651.html
Modern Japanese cinema has a few stand out names, and Kore-eda is one of them. At first i saw comparisons to the great classic director Ozu, but in a interview he singled out Naruse and Ken Loach as more inspirational.
These are the titles i was able to find on Blu-ray, and all of them need to be seen around 3 or 4 times each before anything in-depth could be said.
A few traits of his cinema are that they are quiet, slow, warm, gentle, family dramas. One of his strengths is his directing of children. Expert Tony Rayns in the I Wish introduction sees his later films disparagingly as soap operas, that made me angry with Tony. Like HOW DARE he criticize him, j/k, it's no longer a critic if they can't be critical.
This Sunday morning, i begin re-watching those i've seen, letting these soak in, and perhaps i will edit in thoughts pertaining to each and so on, or leave the title list alone cuz it looks nice and handy that way and elaborate below it.
Ladies and gentlemen, film lovers of the whole wide world on the world wide web, i give you one of Japan's finest - Hirokazu Kore-eda
[image deleted]
1. Maborosi - 1995
2. After Life - 1998
3. Nobody Knows - 2004
4. Still Walking - 2008
5. Air Doll - 2009
6. I Wish - 2011
7. Like Father, Like Son - 2013
8. Our Little Sister - 2015
9. After the Storm - 2016
10. The Third Murder - 2017
11. Shoplifters - 2018
12. The Truth - 2019
Without Memory - 1996
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3VnZ4IV7Y4]
Distance - 2001
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_yidMhCAc]
Hana - 2006
https://m4uhd.tv/watch-movie-hana-2006-222651.html
