The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu An Elemental Cinema /

• Main Author: Ehrlich, Linda C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: East Asian Popular Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Asia.; Ethnology-Asia.; Motion pictures-History.; Popular Culture.; Asian Cinema and TV.; Asian Culture.; Film History.; Popular Culture .

The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu. With his recent top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters, Kore-eda is arguably Japan's greatest li...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introductory thoughts
• 2. EARTH/ THE DOCUMENTARY IMPULSE. Mō hitotsu no kyoku: Ina shōgakkō haru gumi no kiroku/Lessons from a Calf, 1991
• 3. WATER - Maboroshi no hikari/Maborosi, 1995
• 4. Aruite mo aruite mo/Still Walking, 2008
• 5. Umi yori mada fukaku/After the Storm, 2016
• 6. LIMINALITY - Wandafuru raifu/ After Life, 1998
• 7. Daremo shiranai/Nobody Knows, 2004
• 8. FIRE - Distance, 2001
• 9. Sandome no satsujin/The Third Murder, 2017
• 10.AIR - Kūki ningyō/Air Doll, 2009
• 11. Kiseki/I Wish, 2011
• 12. Soshite chichi ni naru/Like Father Like Son, 2013
• 13. Umimachi diari/ Our Little Sister, 2015
• 14. METAL - Hana yori mo nao/Hana, 2006
• 15. AN ELEMENTAL CINEMA RE-EXAMINED - Manbiki Kazoku/Shoplifters, 2018
• 16. ENDINGS
• 17. Final Thoughts
• 18. Filmography.