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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.

Thanks to a tweet from a certain head programmer from TIFF, we now have an official update on the "Untitled Bullet Train Project" project that Hirokazu Kore-eda had mentioned to us back when he was promoting Air Doll. Film News Asia confirms that Kiseki (Miracle), currently in production, stars real-life, pint-sized brothers Koki and Oshiro Maeda, along with vet Kirin Kiki (from Kore-eda's Still Walking) and popular Joe Odagiri from Air Doll.

We begin the competition with one of many Palme d'Or winners who are looking to possibly add a second or in the case of...

The race for the Palme d'Or officially begins today. It's day 2 at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival which means the press core and as per...

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...