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1 day ago · A still from Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Monster’ Now that Pride Month has wrapped up, corporate giants have shed their yassified rainbow exteriors and reverted to their standard-issue selves. For ...
2 days ago · The sentimentality follows suit, coming off as especially hokey. By being so heavy-handed, Kore-eda has chipped the teeth of “Monster.”. Daily Arts Writer Ben Luu can be reached at benllv@umich.edu. With “Monster,” Kore-eda becomes a victim of his own perverse-turned-sentimental formula at Ann Arbor Cinetopia.
Jun 20, 2024 · Director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s cinematic exploration addresses this necessity by raising questions and experimenting with the application of a dialectical point of view concerning traditional family values in response to Japan’s contemporary societal shifts throughout his filmography.
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6 days ago · Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister, based on the Japanese manga series, Umimachi Diary, is a slow-moving, yet highly touching film about a family of three sisters, Sachi (Haruka Ayase), Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa), and Chika (Kaho) who live together in a large dilapidated house in Kamakura, south-west of Tokyo. Since their father ran off with another woman in their early childhoods, and their mother, unable to live with the shame, also left, the girls have pretty much had to survive on ...
Jun 8, 2024 · On the surface, Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s Monster seems to merely be about a boy struggling at school with his single mother doing her best to keep their life together. When an incident leaves her son injured, she storms into said school to demand consequences for the teacher she believes caused the injury.
Jun 8, 2024 · Hirokazu Kore-eda’s multilayered and genre-defying mystery defies easy interpretation. Read on for our review.
Jun 20, 2024 · After making a series of early documentary films, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu captured worldwide attention with the release of Maborosi (1995), an elegiac, hauntingly ethereal familial drama of grief and uncertainty.
