Kore-eda Hirokazu (Contemporary Film Directors)
Kore-eda Hirokazu (Contemporary Film Directors) by Marc Yamada
English | July 4, 2023 | ISBN: 0252045122, 0252087267 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 2.5 MB
English | July 4, 2023 | ISBN: 0252045122, 0252087267 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 2.5 MB
Films like Shoplifters and After the Storm have made Kore-eda Hirokazu one of the most acclaimed auteurs working today. Critics often see Kore-eda as a director steeped in the Japanese tradition defined by Yasujirō Ozu. Marc Yamada, however, views Kore-eda’s work in relation to the same socioeconomic concerns explored by other contemporary international filmmakers.
Yamada reveals that a type of excess, not the minimalism associated with traditional aesthetics, defines Kore-eda’s trademark humanism. This excess manifests in small moments when a desire for human connection exceeds the logic of the institutions and policies formed by the neoliberal values that have shaped modern-day Japan. As Yamada shows, Kore-eda captures the shared spaces formed by bodies that move, perform, and assemble in ways that express the humanistic impulse at the core of the filmmaker’s expanding worldwide appeal.