Hirokazu Koreeda
1) After life
Series
Criterion collection volume 1089
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of newly-dead people are in a way station between heaven and Earth where they are given three days to choose a favorite memory which they will relive for eternity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 554
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, as they gather for a commemorative ritual.
4) Maborosi
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young mother, haunted by the suicide of her husband, remarries and tries to find love, understanding and a sense of peace.
5) After life
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Koreeda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.
6) Maborosi
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Yumiko is a vibrant and happy young wife and mother who is haunted by the childhood memory of watching her grandmother walk away from the family home, never to be seen again. When her husband dies a mysterious suicide, Yumiko is devastated by shock and grief. She struggles to care for her toddler son in the couple's cramped Osaka apartment.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Affluent architects Ryota and his wife Midori face a terrible dilemma when they learn that their six-year-old son, Keita, was accidentally switched at birth and is not their biological child. In the wake of this revelation, Ryota's sense of fatherhood is shaken to the core as he witnesses both his wife's enduring devotion to Keita and his own conflicting feelings of nature versus nurture. Now his decision on which boy is truly his son will change...
8) Broker
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows two brokers who sell unwanted babies to rich couples who can't have children of their own.
9) Shoplifters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce 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 existence.
10) Still walking
Series
Criterion collection volume 554
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every year, the Yokoyama clan gets together to honor the life of eldest son Junpei, drowned 15 years earlier while saving a man from drowning. Retired physician father Shohei still mourns, while his wife Toshiko has become a passive-aggressive domestic goddess, the two bicker continually. Surviving son Ryota has married at last-his new wife Yukari is a widow with a young son. Daughter Chinami and her car-salesman husband have their two kids in tow....
11) After life
Series
Criterion collection volume 1089
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life's high-concept premise is grounded in Kore-eda's documentary-like...
12) Monster
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a mother discovers that a teacher's bullying is behind her young son's sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers and with an increasingly distressed child, she furiously escalated her concerns to the school board and the media. But as the story unfolds through the multilayered perspectives of mother, teacher, and child, the real truth gradually emerges and proves...