Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #55. Hirokazu Koreeda’s Kamakura Diary

Kamakura Diary

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda// Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda

Another Japanese auteur returning with another project is Hirokazu Koreeda, whose last film, 2013’s Like Father, Like Son won the Jury Prize at Cannes (and was optioned by Steven Spielberg for a US remake). He’s back with an adaptation of Kamakura Diary by Akimi Yoshida, and stars several notable actors, including Riri Faranki (from Like Father, Like Son), Ryohei Suzuki (from Sono’s Tokyo Tribe and Kurosawa’s Seventh Code) and Masami Nagasawa (from Koreeda’s 2011 I Wish). Koreeda tends to prize the perspective of children (most notably with 2004’s Nobody Knows), and his latest concerns three sisters who live in their grandmother’s home, their existence disturbed at the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister.

Cast: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Suzu Hirose, Ryo Kase

Production Co.: GAGA, TV Man Union, Toho Company

U.S. Distributor: Rights available

Release Date: Already in post-production, Koreeda doesn’t seem tied to Cannes in particular, but timing would suggest we’ll see this pop up there. While Nobody Knows played in the main comp, 2009’s Air Doll was slotted in Un Certain Regard, and 2013 saw him in the main competition again, so we’ll have to see just where it ends up, but we assume somewhere in the lineup.

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