Hirokazu koreeda wife
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Born 1962 in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Waseda University in 1987, Kore-eda joined TV Man Union where he directed several prize winning documentary programs. In 2014, he launched his production company BUN-BUKU.
In 1995, his directorial debut, Maborosi, based on the original novel written by Miyamoto Teru, won the 52nd Venice International Film Festival's Golden Osella. After Life (1998), distributed in over 30 countries, brought Kore-eda internationally acclaimed.
In 2001, Distance was selected in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and with his fourth work Nobody Knows (2004), Yagira Yuya garnered much attention for becoming the youngest person to ever receive the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award.
In 2006, Hana, a film centered on vengeance, became his first attempt at a period piece.
In 2008, he presented the family drama Still Walking, which reflected his own personal experiences, received high appraisals from around the world.
In 2009, Air Doll was world premiered at Un Certain Regard of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival and was widely-praise
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Hirokazu Kore-eda
Dare Mo Shiranai/ Nobody Knows (2004) is another austere documentary-style semi-improvisational film that involves four people who live in their own closed fantasy universe. This time the universe is a happy and innocent one, one in which they feel safe. And this time the four protagonists are children who don't know the real world, and suddenly they have to explore it and learn how to cope
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Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Kore-eda was born in Tokyo in 1962 to a Japanese mother and a Taiwan-born Japanese father. Throughout his childhood, Kore-eda was exposed to film thanks to his mother, and watching film and television together with her instilled in him a deep love for cinema. He later graduated from the Graduate School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences of Waseda University in 1987 and shortly thereafter began working on his own films, specifically documentaries.
In 1991, Kore-eda transitioned into a new role: directing a television documentary entitled Lessons from a Calf. In the following years, Kore-eda further pursued a career as a director. By 1995, his first fiction film, Maborosi, was featured at the Venice Film Festival and won the Golden Osella Award for Best Cinematography. He has won a number of other awards in his lifetime, such as the Best Director award at the Yokohama Film Festival and the Best Film and Best Director awards at the Japan Academy Prizes.
One of Kore-eda’s most popular films is Shoplifters, a
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