Hirokazu koreeda biography of rory

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  • Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda ranks among the best-known and most acclaimed directors in world cinema today.
  • Irish-born, Berlin-based, Rory O'Connor has been covering the European film festival circuit since 2012.

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    "Koreeda's themes are isolation, loss, death, memory, and the search for meaning; his excellence lies in his ability to anchor these philosophical concerns in the concrete realities of daily life and individual emotion… If Koreeda's future films match the quality of his best work to date, he is likely to rank as one of the finest Japanese filmmakers of the twenty-first century." - Alexander Jacoby (A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors, 2008)

    Director / Editor / Screenwriter / Producer
    (1962- ) Born June 6, Tokyo, Japan
    Top 250 Directors/ 21st Century's Top 100 Directors

    Key Production Country: Japan
    Key Genres: Drama, Family Drama, Psychological Drama, Fantasy, Slice of Life, Childhood Drama
    Key Collaborators: Keiko Mitsumatsu (Production Designer), Hijiri Taguchi (Producer), Yutaka Yamazaki (Cinematographer), Kirin Kiki (Character Actress), Susumu Terajima (Character Actor), Arata Iura (Leading Actor), Kaoru Matsuzaki (Producer), Lily Franky (Leading Character Actor), Hiroshi Abe (Leading Actor), Yui Natsukawa (Leading Character Actress), Toshihiro Isomi (Production Designer), Kazuya Takahashi (Character Actor)

    "Hirokazu Koreeda's meetings between experience and recall, documentary and fiction, are rare in modern cinema…

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    Film Review: Air Doll (2009) by Hirokazu Koreeda

    The Japanese family drama is inextricably connected to the name Hirokazu Koreedadue to features such as “Shoplifters” or “Monster”. While the majority of viewers will most likely come up with titles like the ones mentioned, the director has more than once explored other narratives and characters, while staying true to his core themes of what makes us human and connect to one another. His fans quite often make a case of works such as “The Third Murder” or “After Life” not being of the same quality as the more known family drama, but this is an unfair and wrong claim, as Koreeda has more than once dealt with ideas that have proven to be much more lasting and relevant in the long run. One of these examples is “Air Doll”, which ranks on place 13 of Amp’s list of the works of the director and is possibly one of...

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    JAPAN | 117 simply | 2016

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    • Screenplay Hirokazu Koreeda
    • Cast Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa