Hirokazu Koreeda

of Still Walking through Bazin’s film approach Hirokazu Koreeda got an international attention with his films like After Life, Nobody Knows, Air Doll... Still Walking his film that brought him great success was nominated to many awards. Film was about a family union regarding to anniversary of family’s dead son. In the Still Walking his style of portraying has similarity to Ozu’s way of family, people’s situation in life. Director Hirokazu Koreeda got his fame by people calling him new Yasujiro

Sachio Kinugasa is a formerly successful writer who currently makes his living by appearing on talk shows. He is married to a hairstylist, Natsuko, but constantly ignores her while he is having an affair with his editor. His life turns upside down when Natsuko is killed on a bus accident, along with her friend Yuko. The two widowers, Sachio and Yoichi deal with the incident in completely different fashion. Sachio tries to "seduce" the media once more, while Yoichi is utterly devastated. However,

Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Koreeda) Three sisters, Sachi, Yoshino and Chika live in a large house in Kamakura. When their estranged father dies, they travel to the country to attend his funeral, where they meet an adolescent half-sister, Suzu. A deep bond is quickly formed between them and results in inviting her, who is currently orphaned, to live with them. She accepts gladly and a new life begins for the four sisters. Koreeda proves once more that he is the contemporary master of the family

human emotions in dealing with oneself and one’s relationships in each character, as well as emphasize the importance of family and friendship, in order to maximize the effects of all these concepts in the story of Miss You Already. Additionally, Koreeda is well-known for his contemplative style and pace in his drama films; thus, instead of having some emphasis on comedy as done in the original, he could slightly alter and shift the tone of the storyline to be more thoughtful and touching to appeal

4). We become hateful and careless towards ourselves as well as others, inflicting pain on each other and on the rest of creation. In the film Afterlife, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, the actors did a good job at portraying what their afterlife would be like. Koreeda’s bittersweet, extraordinarily charming vision of what waits after death, souls are processed to regional offices where a group of caseworkers helps them choose