Of Flesh and Blood: The Early Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda

If you had to choose the single best memory of your life, what would it be? Kore-eda poses the question in this lyrical yet down-to-earth…

Kore-eda’s heartbreaking study of childhood destroyed by neglect and societal indifference boasts superb naturalistic performances.

Kore-eda’s haunting, meditative film traces a widow’s attempts to comprehend bereavement.

Loosely inspired by the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway committed by extremist Buddhist cult Aum Shinrikyo, this ambiguous drama questions how fully…

A samurai is obliged by the warrior code to seek revenge for his father’s death. But three things make him reluctant to act: poor swordsmanship,…