Hirokazu Kore-eda

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar exist...

A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their...

When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Three sisters live together in Kamakura. When their father - absent for 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live wi...

After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

A stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a daughter of a mother who never grows old.

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.

A troubled young samurai seeks revenge for the death of his father.

Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of those affected by it meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved one...

A Kurdish family is trying to navigate their lives in Japan while facing the difficulties of getting their visa approved and seeking refuge in a foreign country. A story, beautifully told, about who you are and how deep your roots...

A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

Five short 'film' stories of how 5 different directors imagine Japan to be in 10 years from now.