Knowra Hirokazu Kore-eda Hirokazu Kore-eda Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for restrained dramas about family, memory, loss, and social inequality. His film Shoplifters won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
Shoplifters : A 2018 Japanese drama about a makeshift family surviving through precarious work and petty theft. Its Palme d’Or win brought Kore-eda’s intimate portrayal of chosen kinship to a broad international audience.
Observational cinema : A documentary approach that records events with minimal visible intervention or commentary. Kore-eda’s documentary beginnings inform the patient attention to everyday behavior in his fiction.
Documentary film : Nonfiction cinema that presents or interprets actual people, events, or conditions. Kore-eda began his career directing documentaries before moving into feature fiction.
Hiroshi Abe : A Japanese actor known for film, television, and stage roles. Abe appears in several Kore-eda films, including Still Walking and After the Storm.
Palme d’Or : The highest award presented in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Shoplifters received this prize in 2018, marking Kore-eda’s largest international festival honor.
Nobody Knows : A 2004 Japanese drama about four children left to fend for themselves in a Tokyo apartment. Its observational account of neglected children established a central concern in Kore-eda’s cinema.
Direct cinema : A documentary movement that sought to observe events with little overt filmmaker intervention. Its commitment to unobtrusive observation offers a useful point of comparison for his style.
Aruitemo Aruitemo : The Japanese title of Kore-eda’s 2008 film Still Walking. The film’s title echoes a line from a song associated with his mother and the film’s family memories.
Kirin Kiki : A Japanese actor celebrated for distinctive supporting and character roles. Her performances in Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son, and Shoplifters anchor family tensions with understated humor.
Cannes Film Festival : An annual international film festival held in Cannes, France. Cannes awarded Kore-eda’s Shoplifters the Palme d’Or and recognized his films across multiple editions.
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