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“Monster” : Exclusive Interview with Actress Sakura Ando on Her Collaboration with Director Hirokazu Kore-eda

Synopsis : When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges. Rating: PG-13…

Toronto International Film Festival / Monster : Exclusive Interview with Director Hirokazu Koreeda

Synopsis : When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges. Rating: PG-13…

Broker : Exclusive Interview with Director Hirokazu Koreeda 

Synopsis : The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple,…

Toronto International Film Festival/ “Broker” Review: Hirokazu Koreeda’s first Korean language movie is a Tender and Bittersweet Portrait of an Unlikely Family of Outcasts

There is no doubt that the Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda is fascinated with family. Not necessary a nuclear family and family bound by blood. In his latest film “Broker”, as in his Golden Palm winner and Oscar nominated “Shoplifters”, he forms an unconventional family of a group of criminals. This time on an unusual…

August at Japan Society: Kore-eda’s After Life

Monthly Classics at Japan Society Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life screens Aug. 12, 2022 at 7pm in-person New York, August 2022—Japan Society is pleased to announce the upcoming Monthly Classics screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life (1998). In Kore-eda’s international breakthrough film, the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo-like realm where they must select a single…

‘Broker’ Trailer: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes-Bound Film Starring Song Kang-ho, Bae Doona and Gang Dong-Won

A South Korean film production and distribution company, CJ entertainment has a first official teaser trailer for “Broker,” the latest film from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. Upcoming film starring Song Kang Ho, Kang Dong Won, IU. Koreeda won the Palme d’Or prize in Cannes for his beloved film, “Shoplifters” in 2018.  “Broker” is the first-ever Korean…