Hirokazu Koreeda

Film by film, Hirokazu Koreeda's cinema has ended up composing a great portrait of the family in contemporary Japan. With domestic dramas like "No one knows"; "Still Walking"; "Like father, like son"; "Our little sister", or "A family affair", the filmmaker has achieved his international projection, critical prestige and ability to move audiences around the world. His creative universe is full of families that fight for their continuity and reinvent themselves in the face of adversity, and whose affective ties are explored with depth and delicacy, based on a few revealing elements. Even though some of his works have dabbled in other genres, Koreeda's subtle yet committed style always prevails. Beyond his discourse on the family as an affective construction, other constants are recognizable, such as the hybridization of rhetorical strategies of documentary and fiction, the concern for the representation of memory or a very particular political sensitivity. On such pillars, this book delves into the filmography of the Japanese filmmaker.