Direction: Hirokazu Koreeda

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Yûya Yagira · Ayu Kitaura · Hiei Kimura · Momoko Shimizu

Plot In 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.

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Kirin Kiki · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Lily Franky · Moemi Katayama

Plot Osamu works as a day laborer. He and his son Shota like to shoplift together. On the way back home from a shoplifting session, Osamu finds little Yuri freezing. He...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Soya Kurokawa · Hiiragi Hinata · Sakura Ando · Eita

Plot When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Yui Natsukawa · You · Kazuya Takahashi

Plot A family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Masaharu Fukuyama · Yoko Maki · Jun Kunimura · Machiko Ono

Plot Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Arata Iura · Erika Oda · Susumu Terajima · Takashi Naitô

Plot After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Haruka Ayase · Masami Nagasawa · Suzu Hirose · Kaho

Plot A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister.

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda · Hiroshi Okuyama · Takuma Satô · Megumi Tsuno

Cast Mayu Matsuoka · Ai Hashimoto · Nana Mori · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot Kiyo becomes a Makanai (person who cooks meals) at a house where Maiko (apprentice geishas) live together.

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Makiko Esumi · Takashi Naitô · Tadanobu Asano · Gohki Kashiyama

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Ohshirô Maeda · Koki Maeda · Hiroshi Abe · Jô Odagiri

Plot In his latest film the Japanese master Hirokazu Koreeda takes a close look at the world of childhood to tell the story of Koichi, a child who lives with his...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Kirin Kiki · Yoko Maki · Lily Franky

Plot Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Lee Ji-eun · Song Kang-ho · Gang Dong-won · Bae Doona

Plot Group of people, brought together by a baby box, set off on a journey that will lead to destinations they never expected.

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Ryo Kase · Yuri Nakamura

Plot This is Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s contribution to the fantasy TV series Kaidan Horror Classics. His episode is a poetic reflection on mourning and the absence of loved ones. A...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Arata Iura · Yusuke Iseya · Susumu Terajima · Seminosuke Murasugi

Plot Members 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 (the credited cast, minus Asano)...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Doona Bae · Arata Iura · Itsuji Itao · Jô Odagiri

Plot A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Masaharu Fukuyama · Kôji Yakusho · Suzu Hirose · Kôtarô Yoshida

Plot Mikuma has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. It looks like and open and shut case for Mikuma has confessed to the...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Junichi Okada · Rie Miyazawa · Tadanobu Asano · Arata Furuta

Plot Set in 1702, Hana yori mo naho looks back a full three centuries to a time when samurai clans offered monetary rewards to the samurais who succeeded in taking on...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Juliette Binoche · Ethan Hawke · Clémentine Grenier

Plot Catherine is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her: her new partner, her former husband, her agent… When she publishes her...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Rikako Ikee

Plot Our destiny isn’t set at birth. It’s not set by what happens around us. It’s shaped by the choices we make, And if Ikee’s story shows us anything It’s that...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Tomoko Yamaguchi · Aoi Miyazaki · You

Plot The main character, Tsuboi Ryota, is a salaryman often criticized for being physically big, but with a “small” heart, and he is stuck in a dilemma of not really being...