Hirokazu Koreeda's effort to stray away from the various versions of the family drama, was, once again, crowned with success, winning most of the major awards...
Category - San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF)
Film programs include a retrospective on Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad, a new film from one of the most-recognizable artists in Asia, Sylvia Chang (“Love...
A seemingly regular family gets an unexpected visitor The Suzuokas are a seemingly regular family of three, living in the suburbs. The husband, Toshio, runs a...
The script is based on the short story “Over Fence” from the collection “Ogon no Fuku” by Yasushi Sato. Shiraiwa has recently divorced and has...
During the last two decades, Hirokazu Koreeda has emerged as the contemporary master of Japanese family drama, with films like “Nobody Knows”...
A not so common script The film starts with a kindergarten teacher escorting a bunch of ragtag children in a restaurant, where she orders a single bowl of food...