Kore-Eda's Shoplifters is one of my favorite movies, so I had high expectations for Asura. But at first I felt disappointed: it seemed quite banal; but I did keep watching. Luckily I did, because I was very wrong: there's so much in here about what it means to be human, to live, to love, to suffer and to care for people around you. Beautiful.

#koreeda #asura

https://letterboxd.com/film/asura-2025/

In love with Koreeda's latest, Asura.
#Netflix #Koreeda #Asura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X657E3UTLAo

MONSTER de Kore-Eda: alors au début j'étais un peu perdue notamment sur ce qui était la norme pr une réunion parents profs au Japon et je me demandais ce que je devais voir/comprendre, puis la multiplication des points de vue fait qu'on doit être super attentif, MAIS je trouve quai final il y avait de beaux moments, ce ne sera pas mon film préféré de lui, mais ça reste un film assez touchant! Le personnage du professeur était intrigant, notamment, avec son sourire qui revenait à des moments wtf #FilmMastodon #films #KoreEda #monster #filmastodon #movies #moviereview

"If only some people can have it, that's not happiness"

Kore-eda 2023 Monster is finally streaming (prime) and it employs roshomon style to hand-hold us out of our mistakes and misapprehensions.

Between Monster & Anatomy of a fall, what a year for films that ask us to think where our opinions, and more importantly judgements come from

All the while doing it within a genre and fictional world of a character.

Große Empfehlung: Der #Film "Die #Unschuld" des japanischen Regisseurs #Koreeda.

While I'm waiting for Monster, I watched Kore-eda's Broker tonight. I don't think I could pick a favourite, and I'm not a cinephile by any stretch, but I have not yet seen a Kore-eda film I didn't love.
#broker #KoreEda

I've seen many Kore-eda films, but until tonight never watched his debut Maborosi (幻の光, maboroshi no hikari, illusion of light, or trick of the light - the relevance of the title only becomes apparent right at the end of the film) .
It's utterly sad and utterly beautiful, and some of the scenes are both so understated but also so incredibly powerful that you'll remember them for a long time.
#maborosi #幻の光 #KoreEda #是枝裕和

I've never seen Kore-eda's After Life (in Japanese ワンダフルライフ, Wonderful Life, surely no coincidence), so I put that right tonight. It's strange but very beautiful, and not without a lot of humour, especially around the very low-tech filming of the dead people's chosen memories.

It packs in quite a lot - the role of memory, the function of cinema and the limits of our imagination, without ever feeling didactic or dry. And it's pretty unsentimental given the subject matter, although there are scenes where you may shed a tear or two.

Saw #KoreEda's #Broker last night at the #Picturehouse (Thank you #MilkTeaAlliance) and had such a good time, crazy mismatched family road trip, Korean style, heart warming, cool, not dumb.

Japanese #movies coming in 2023
#films #cinema #Japanesecinema
new #godziilla
new #miyazakihayao #ghibli
Shin #kamenrider
new #koreeda