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...
The Toronto Film Festival releases its final list of films tomorrow, and I've got at least four titles confirmed - all European. Sorry my lips are sealed. Look for our IONCINEMA.com TIFF checklist series starting tomorrow: a list of films 40 films I'll be covering at the festival this year.
I can see how Hirokazu Kore-eda's romantic fantasy might rub people off in the wrong way, we are used to an aesthetic and story-telling that borrows from the real and not from manga.
So the inflatable doll magically coming to life tale was perhaps too “out there” for a main comp acceptance, but Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll came on over to Un Certain Regard section along with expect works from Romanian filmmakers Cristian Mungiu (Tales From The Golden Age) and Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective), France's Denis Dercourt (Demain Des L'aube), Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Nymph) and Cannes regular (The Host, Tokyo!) Bong Joon-Ho and his latest film, Mother.