Kore-eda made his narrative feature debut with this delicate portrait of loss and regeneration, in which a widowed mother remarries and moves to a small rural fishing village.

In this wistful, understatedly moving fable about lost love, bygone happiness, and what it means to live a good life, Kore-eda imagines an afterlife in which the dead must choose a single memory to retain for eternity.

With wrenching clarity and unvarnished lyricism, this fictionalized retelling of a real-life child abandonment case captures the everyday resilience of four young siblings left to survive on their own in a Tokyo apartment.

Kore-eda’s fine-tuned elegy—full of personalizing details and the sense memories of childhood—unfolds largely over the course of a daylong gathering of a family still mourning the loss of its eldest son.

This subtly powerful family drama-turned-road movie follows two young brothers living apart who long to be reunited following their parents’ separation. Kore-eda returns to his perennial subject of childhood yearning with his signature mode of gentle yet unflinching realism.

Kore-eda revisits his ongoing preoccupation with family dynamics and parent-child relationships with this sensitive drama concerning two couples facing an excruciating dilemma and the gradual emotional awakening that emerges. An NYFF51 selection.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner is a heartrending, profoundly human portrait of a most unusual “family”: a collection of societal cast-offs united by petty crime and a fierce love for one another. An NYFF56 selection. A Magnolia Pictures release.