Baby, Box, Broker
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Song Kang-Ho, Bae Doona, Dong-won Gang
Release Date/Prediction: With an early 2021 shoot in the works, we...
The Truth
Fresh off his 2018 Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters (review), prolific Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his perennial output with his latest project, The Truth,...
#29. Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father Like Son
Gist: A successful businessman driven by money, learns that his biological son was switched with another child after...
Kore-eda can take a story that you'd normally find sentimentality and craft it so that it is void of sappiness. I don't need to mention the merits of the filmmaker, but when thinking of the story above I'm thinking back, for different reasons, to films in his filmography: After Life (1998), Distance (2001) and Nobody Knows (2004). Re-teaming with his Air Doll star Joe Odagiri, when Kore-eda "delivers"...his films have the ability of lingering on.