---
name: "Hirokazu Kore-eda"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hirokazu-kore-eda"
fi1m_id: "hirokazu-kore-eda"
imdb_id: "nm0466153"
tmdb_id: 25645
wikidata_id: "Q740758"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "6 June 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "director"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-04T04:25:37.271598+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hirokazu Kore-eda

## Identity

Hirokazu Kore-eda

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hirokazu-kore-eda
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hirokazu-kore-eda
- **IMDb ID:** nm0466153
- **TMDB ID:** 25645
- **Wikidata ID:** Q740758
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirokazu_Kore-eda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q740758, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0466153/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25645

Director and writer. Born 6 June 1962 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 6 June 1962, Tokyo, Japan
- **Active:** 1999–present
- **Also known as:** Koreeda Hirokazu, Kore-eda Hirokazu
- **Frequently works with:** [Kaoru Matsuzaki](https://film.one/person/kaoru-matsuzaki.md)
- **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as director, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2000s 87 (1), 2010s 89 (1), 2020s 65 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 73 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, Science Fiction 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $94m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirokazu_Kore-eda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q740758, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0466153/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25645

## Coming up

- *5 - The Time Called Arashi -* (2026-12-15), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Shoplifters*](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md) (89)
- **AMC+:** [*Nobody Knows*](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md) (87)
- **Tubi:** [*Broker*](https://film.one/film/broker.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Hirokazu Kore-eda

> Hirokazu Kore-eda gives makeshift families time to grow close without tidying away every doubt about them. We value his patience with actors, though his writing sometimes asks loneliness to excuse more than it should.

In *Broker* (2022), the pleasure of travelling together keeps rubbing against the fact that the travellers are trying to sell a baby. Kore-eda gives their growing affection time, and lets uncertainty survive inside it. We value his interest in what makes these people want to stay together. He is a fine director of such hesitant company, though he sometimes works too hard to reassure us about their behaviour.

His television documentaries preceded his first fiction feature, *Maborosi* (1995). *Nobody Knows* (2004) and *Still Walking* (2008) brought wider notice to a filmmaker whose recurring subjects were family, loss and everyday life. *Like Father, Like Son* (2013) examined parents whose children had been switched at birth, while *Shoplifters* (2018) concerned a family formed outside blood ties. *The Truth* (2019), made in France, and the South Korean *Broker* took him beyond Japanese-language filmmaking.

The strongest reason to follow *Broker* is its ensemble, led by Song Kang-ho. IU's So-young gives the friendliness some necessary resistance, keeping her difficulty trusting these people present even when company becomes a comfort. We were moved by her because the wish to be understood never made that unease disappear. Kore-eda gets something valuable from leaving those feelings unresolved, but his screenplay sometimes treats the group's loneliness as sufficient reassurance about what they are doing.

He also edits *Broker*, and his patience is not always a virtue. The police subplot keeps interrupting the travellers without adding enough tension, while the journey gets more time than the story needs. Composer Jung Jae-il adds tenderness, but the music occasionally presses for sympathy that the actors have already earned. The humour helps: these people can be funny together, so the warmth need not depend entirely on explanations of how lonely they are.

For the more searching treatment of these makeshift families, we would start with *Shoplifters*. There is still a worthwhile evening in *Broker*, especially for anyone drawn to imperfect people finding comfort in one another. Allow for a director who sometimes keeps asking for sympathy after his actors have earned it. — Fi1m

## Biography

Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. Born in Tokyo on 6 June 1962, he graduated from Waseda University in 1987 and began his career as an assistant director at the television production company TV Man Union, where he made documentaries before moving into feature films.

His work often centres on family relationships and everyday life. He is known for films including *Nobody Knows* (2004), *Still Walking* (2008), *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), *Our Little Sister* (2015), *Shoplifters* (2018) and *Broker* (2022), on which he also served as editor and writer. He won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2013 for *Like Father, Like Son* and the Palme d'Or in 2018 for *Shoplifters*. Later features include *Monster* (2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Sheep in the Box* (2026), Fi1m 54, Editor, Screenplay, Director, Original Story — [page](https://film.one/film/sheep-in-the-box.md)
- *Broker* (2022), Fi1m 76, Director, Writer, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/broker.md)
- *Shoplifters* (2018), Fi1m 89, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md)
- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Fi1m 87, Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)
- *After Life* (1999), Fi1m 85, Screenplay, Director, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/after-life.md)

## Complete filmography (65)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *5 - The Time Called Arashi -* (2026), Director
- *Look Back* (2026), Director, Editor, Writer
- *THE ORIGIN OF ULTRAMAN* (2026), Producer
- *Sheep in the Box* (2026), Director, Editor, Screenplay, Original Story — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/sheep-in-the-box.md)
- *Asura* (2025), series, Editor, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang* (2023), Actor
- *Monster* (2023), Director, Editor, Executive Producer
- *The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay, Creator
- *Broker* (2022), Editor, Director, Writer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/broker.md)
- *My Small Land* (2022), Executive Producer
- *HAJIKERU* (2022), Producer
- *National Theatre Live: After Life* (2021), Writer
- *The Center Lane* (2021), Director
- *Any Crybabies Around?* (2020), Development Producer
- *A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura* (2020), series, Director
- *The Truth* (2019), Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *Kiki Kirin's Life* (2019), Actor
- *Junichi* (2019), series, Creator
- *Ten Years Japan* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Shoplifters* (2018), Producer, Director, Screenplay, Editor — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md)
- *The Third Murder* (2017), Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *After the Storm* (2016), Director, Editor, Original Concept, Screenplay
- *Ishibumi* (2015), Director
- *Our Little Sister* (2015), Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *Homeland* (2014), Consulting Producer
- *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), Director, Editor, Screenplay
- *Going My Home* (2012), series, Writer, Director, Editor, Creator
- *The Message from Fukushima* (2012), Director
- *Live Fukushima: Kaze to Rock Super Nomaoi* (2012), Producer
- *Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman* (2011), Producer
- *I Wish* (2011), Screenplay, Director, Editor
- *Kaidan Horror Classics* (2010), Director
- *Kaidan Horror Classics* (2010), series, Director, Screenplay
- *Beautiful Islands* (2010), Executive Producer
- *The Days After* (2010), Screenplay, Director
- *Air Doll* (2009), Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
- *So I Can Be Alright: Cocco's Endless Journey* (2008), Director
- *Still Walking* (2008), Director, Screenplay, Editor, Original Story
- *Sway* (2006), Producer
- *Hana* (2006), Director, Editor, Writer
- *Series Constitution. Article 9: War Renunciation "Oblivion"* (2006), Director
- *A Making of Nobody Knows* (2004), Still Photographer
- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Editor, Producer, Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)
- *Elephant Kashimashi Documentary Film: Tobira no Mukō* (2004), Producer
- *Tobira no muko Rock kashu miyamoto hiroji to iu ikikata* (2004), Producer
- *Wild Berries* (2003), Producer
- *Kakuto* (2003), Producer
- *Birthplace* (2003), Director, Editor
- *Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri* (2003), Director
- *Distance* (2001), Director, Editor, Writer
- *After Life* (1999), Director, Editor, Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/after-life.md)
- *Without Memory* (1996), Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Idea
- *This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)* (1996), Writer, Director of Photography, Director
- *Maborosi* (1995), Director, Producer
- *August Without Him* (1994), Director
- *Yottsu no shibu jikoku* (1993), Director
- *Soul Sketches - Every Person's Kenji Miyazawa* (1993), Director
- *When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang* (1993), Director
- *I Wish I Could Be Japanese* (1992), Director
- *Where Has All the Pollution Gone?* (1991), Director
- *Lessons from a Calf* (1991), Director
- *However...* (1991), Writer, Producer, Director
- *Nonfix* (1989), series, Director
- *Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'* (1989), Assistant Director
- *Untitled Hirokazu Kore-eda Film*, Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Hirokazu Kore-eda](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-7095889fcd8a.jpg) Hirokazu Kore-eda — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Hirokazu_Kore-eda_-_The_Egyptian_Theatre.jpg/1280px-Hirokazu_Kore-eda_-_The_Egyptian_Theatre.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cast and director of Broker at VIP Premiere on June 2, 2022](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-eb5c02bc1bbf.jpg) Cast and director of Broker at VIP Premiere on June 2, 2022 — K-POPIT 케이팝잇, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/20220602_Broker_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4_VIP_Premiere_%281%29.jpg/1280px-20220602_Broker_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4_VIP_Premiere_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cast and director of Broker at VIP Premiere on June 2, 2022](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-944a79a96e0d.jpg) Cast and director of Broker at VIP Premiere on June 2, 2022 — K-POPIT 케이팝잇, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/20220602_Broker_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4_VIP_Premiere_%282%29.jpg/1280px-20220602_Broker_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4_VIP_Premiere_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cérémonie de clôture du festival de Cannes, avec notamment Sting jouant de la basse. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-2ebc9ca7e79b.jpg) Cérémonie de clôture du festival de Cannes, avec notamment Sting jouant de la basse. (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Cannes_2018_34.jpg/1280px-Cannes_2018_34.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hirokazu Kore-eda](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-2465543b4a95.jpg) Hirokazu Kore-eda — Image via TMDB
- ![Hirokazu Kore-eda](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-af8edf10ebad.jpg) Hirokazu Kore-eda — Image via TMDB
- ![Hirokazu Kore-eda](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-78aaab1dc6df.jpg) Hirokazu Kore-eda — Image via TMDB
- ![Cérémonie de clôture du festival de Cannes (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-43794c854148.jpg) Cérémonie de clôture du festival de Cannes (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Cannes_2018_37.jpg/1280px-Cannes_2018_37.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cérémonie de clôture du festival de Cannes (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-40f46cb0412a.jpg) Cérémonie de clôture du festival de Cannes (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Cannes_2018_38.jpg/1280px-Cannes_2018_38.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hirokazu Kore-eda](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-d6e7610f9c55.jpg) Hirokazu Kore-eda — Image via TMDB
- ![Hirokazu Kore-eda](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-1c6625f96431.jpg) Hirokazu Kore-eda — Image via TMDB
- ![Hirokazu Kore-eda](https://film.one/media/person/21709/gallery-bfd04512eed6.jpg) Hirokazu Kore-eda — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won

- 2018: Palme d'Or (won), for *Shoplifters*

### Other awards — 9 won

- Donostia Award 2018: Donostia Award (won)
- Juzo Itami Award 2016: Juzo Itami Award (won)
- Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director 2013: Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director (won)
- Honorary Cyclo d'or 2012: Honorary Cyclo d'or (won)
- Asian Film Award for Best Director 2009: Asian Film Award for Best Director (won), for *Still Walking*
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 2009: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director (won), for *Still Walking*
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 2005: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director (won), for *Nobody Knows*
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 2004: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director (won), for *Nobody Knows*
- Golden Osella 1995: Golden Osella (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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