Hirokazu Koreeda

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Hirokazu Koreeda (2015)

Hirokazu Koreeda ( Japanese 是 枝 裕 和 , Koreeda Hirokazu ; born June 6, 1962 in Kiyose , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ), often also written Kore-eda , is a Japanese film director , screenwriter , film editor and film producer who has won numerous international festival awards .

Life

Koreeda initially studied literature at Waseda University until 1987 , but then came to the independent TV production company TV Man Union . He made numerous documentaries for television. Central themes in these documentaries were memory, life and death.

His first feature film, Maboroshi - The Light of Illusion , won an award at the Venice International Film Festival in 1995 , and his next successful film, After Life, was re-adapted by 20th Century Fox . Koreeda's third feature film, Distance , entered the 2001 Cannes Film Festival competition. His 2004 film Nobody Knows is about four children who are suddenly abandoned by their mother and have to look after themselves while waiting for their return. Leading actor Yūya Yagira received the Actor Award in Cannes for his role as Akira , while Koreeda received the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director . In 2006 his historical film Hana , which is about the revenge of a samurai , was released.

In 2008 his drama Still Walking was awarded the main prize of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata . This film, often compared to the works of director Ozu Yasujirō , deals with a day on which two siblings and their respective families visit their parents in memory of the 15-year-old death of their brother.

He also worked as a producer on Iseya Yusuke's Kakuto and Nishikawa Miwa's Wild Berries .

Its after the popular Japanese Josei - Manga Umimachi Diary of Akimi Yoshida developed feature film was the first of his films under the German title, our little sister , in German cinemas. The family story of three sisters who discovered after the death of their father that they still have a younger half-sister whom they would like to get to know, had its theatrical release in Germany on October 17, 2015. Koreeda is also responsible for editing his own films.

In 2018 Koreeda received the Golden Palm of the Cannes Film Festival for his film Shoplifters - Family Ties . His film La Vérité - Live and Let Lie with Catherine Deneuve , Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke was selected as the opening film of the Venice International Film Festival 2019 .

In addition to his work as a director, Koreeda has also been writing literary texts since 1992, with some of his works being published in parallel with films of the same name. His novel Aruite mo aruite mo was translated into German under the title As far as we go (associated film: Still Walking ).

criticism

The renowned film critic Roger Ebert compared Koreeda with Ozu Yasujirō and described him as the most talented among the younger Japanese directors. The film After Life would give Koreeda the right to be placed on a par with Ingmar Bergman , Akira Kurosawa and other great cinema humanists.

Filmography

Feature films

Documentaries

  • 1991: Shikashi… - Fukushi kirisute no jidainni ( し か し… 福祉 切 り 捨 て の 時代 に )
  • 1991: Mō hitotsu no kyōiku ( も う 一 つ の 教育 )
  • 1994: Kare no inai hachigatsu ga ( 彼 の い な い 八月 が )
  • 1996: Kioku ga ushinawareta toki ( 記憶 が 失 わ れ た 時 )
  • 2008: Daijōbu de aru yō ni - Cocco owaranai tabi ( 大丈夫 で あ る よ う に -Cocco 終 ら な い 旅 - )

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film awards and nominations won by Koreeda , IMDb
  2. ↑ The Impossible Distance , Der Standard, October 27, 2008
  3. ↑ Mark Schilling: A subtle take on family life , The Japan Times, June 27, 2008 (English)
  4. ↑ "When the whole family wants to go to the cinema together at Christmas" , SWR2 cultural theme on December 16, 2015 by film critic Rüdiger Suchsland
  5. ↑ La vérité (The Truth) by Kore-eda Hirokazu to open 76th Venice Film Festival. July 18, 2019, accessed on July 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ JALI: Japanese Family Studies . May 28, 2020, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ https://www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/rogers-favorites-hirokazu-kore-eda
personal data
SURNAME Koreeda, Hirokazu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 是 枝 裕 和 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiyose , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan