Hirokazu Koreeda
☼ Born on 6 December 1962, in Tokyo, Japan
BiographyBorn in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at T.V. Man Union. Snuck off set to film Mou hitotsu no kyouiku - Ina shogakkou haru gumi no kiroku (1991). His first feature, Maborosi (1995), based on a Teru Miyamoto novel and drawn from his own experiences while filming August Without Him (1994), won jury prizes at Venice and Chicago. The main themes of his oeuvre include memory, loss, death and the intersection of documentary and fictive narratives.
In the role of director
Broker – TIFF 2022 (14/09/2022)
A pair of human traffickers are joined by an unwanted baby’s mother to find new parents to sell it to in Broker. So-young (Lee Ji-eun) is a young mother who drops her baby off at a box at the Busan Family Church, who is then intercepted by church worker Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won) and laundry-owner Sang-hyun […]
Little Sister (03/11/2016)
A goth girl turned nun returns home to visit her disfigured older brother in Little Sister. Colleen Lunsford (Addison Timlin) is a young woman about to give her first vows to become a nun. Colleen receives an e-mail from her mother Joani (Ally Sheedy) stating that her older brother Jacob (Keith Poulson) has returned home after being […]