Considering the ignorant comments we read throughout the web (to say the least) after the release of “Monster”, we decided to take a vote regarding the ranking of the movies of the Japanese, in order to come up with an informed ‘top 16'. The only condition was for the people who vote to have watched at least 10 films by the director, which resulted in the following Amp members voting: Panos Kotzathanasis, Rouven Linnarz, Andrew Thayne, Tobiasz Dunin, Sean Barry, Adriana Rosati and Lukasz Mankowski. The result, which includes his 16 fiction features but not his documentaries, is as follows.
16. Distance (2001)
Koreeda directs a film filled with subtle melancholy, as he tries to present the reasons people join cults and commit horrendous attacks. Through flashbacks and dialogue, he depicts the alienation and emotional isolation the perpetrators had from their families as they succumbed to the cult's dogma. However, his efforts do not prove very fruitful,...
16. Distance (2001)
Koreeda directs a film filled with subtle melancholy, as he tries to present the reasons people join cults and commit horrendous attacks. Through flashbacks and dialogue, he depicts the alienation and emotional isolation the perpetrators had from their families as they succumbed to the cult's dogma. However, his efforts do not prove very fruitful,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Well Go USA releases the film in theaters on Wednesday, November 22.
Scary as it sounds, “monster” can be such a strangely comforting word. Not only does classifying someone as inhuman absolve us from acknowledging the most difficult aspects of our shared humanity, it also reaffirms the smallness and simplicity of an infinitely complex universe that continues to expand no matter how much we might want to wrap our arms around it. “Monster” is a period at the end of a sentence; it’s the permission we give ourselves to demonize whatever we don’t understand.
And, for all of those reasons, it’s also a very unexpected title for a new feature by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose achingly humanistic stories of families lost and found have never had any use for such a stiflingly judgmental term.
Scary as it sounds, “monster” can be such a strangely comforting word. Not only does classifying someone as inhuman absolve us from acknowledging the most difficult aspects of our shared humanity, it also reaffirms the smallness and simplicity of an infinitely complex universe that continues to expand no matter how much we might want to wrap our arms around it. “Monster” is a period at the end of a sentence; it’s the permission we give ourselves to demonize whatever we don’t understand.
And, for all of those reasons, it’s also a very unexpected title for a new feature by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose achingly humanistic stories of families lost and found have never had any use for such a stiflingly judgmental term.
- 5/17/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Mubi’s U.S. lineup for next month has been unveiled, including some essential recent releases, notably James Vaughan’s Friends and Strangers, Radu Muntean’s Întregalde, Alice Diop’s We (Nous), the Isabel Sandoval-led short The Actress, Ougie Pak’s Clytaemnestra, and the new restoration of Hong Sangsoo’s Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors.
As part of Pride month and fitting as his latest film arrives, Andrew Ahn’s Spa Night is among the selections, alongside And Then We Danced, Being 17, and Lilting. Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, a pair of films by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Kim Bora’s House of Hummingbird are also in the lineup.
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June 1 – Wet Sand, directed by Elene Naveriani | Viewfinder | Pride
June 2 – And Then We Danced, directed by Levan Akin | Pride Unprejudiced: LGBTQ+ Cinema
June 3 – Friends and Strangers, directed by James Vaughan | Mubi Spotlight
June 4 – Final Set,...
As part of Pride month and fitting as his latest film arrives, Andrew Ahn’s Spa Night is among the selections, alongside And Then We Danced, Being 17, and Lilting. Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, a pair of films by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Kim Bora’s House of Hummingbird are also in the lineup.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
June 1 – Wet Sand, directed by Elene Naveriani | Viewfinder | Pride
June 2 – And Then We Danced, directed by Levan Akin | Pride Unprejudiced: LGBTQ+ Cinema
June 3 – Friends and Strangers, directed by James Vaughan | Mubi Spotlight
June 4 – Final Set,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Competition line-up includes five Cannes label titles.
San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff) has revealed the first six features that will screen in competition at its 68th edition, including five Cannes label titles.
Films that will compete for the San Sebastian’s Golden Shell include: Sharunas Bartas’ In The Dusk; Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers; Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning; François Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Takuma Sato’s Any Crybabies Around?; and Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round.
All except Sato’s new feature, which will receive its world premiere at San Sebastian, were previously in Cannes’ Official Selection. It follows...
San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff) has revealed the first six features that will screen in competition at its 68th edition, including five Cannes label titles.
Films that will compete for the San Sebastian’s Golden Shell include: Sharunas Bartas’ In The Dusk; Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers; Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning; François Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Takuma Sato’s Any Crybabies Around?; and Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round.
All except Sato’s new feature, which will receive its world premiere at San Sebastian, were previously in Cannes’ Official Selection. It follows...
- 7/3/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Despite now being typecast as a director of family dramas, Hirokazu Koreeda isn’t a director afraid to step out of his comfort zone, experimenting with fantasy (“Air Doll”) and courtroom drama (“The Third Murder”). It’s no surprise then that his sole jidaigeki (period drama) to date, 2006’s “Hana”, tells the story of a samurai well out of his comfort zone in his role. The English language release came with the tagline “The tale of a reluctant samurai”, but the hero, Soza (Junichi Okada) is more than just reluctant and is actively running away from the role typically associated with such honourable duties.
In 18th century Japan, Soza hides out in a small community on the outskirts of Edo to seek out the murderer of his father, head of his clan, killed over a petty squabble. His duty is to get revenge. But despite the constant...
In 18th century Japan, Soza hides out in a small community on the outskirts of Edo to seek out the murderer of his father, head of his clan, killed over a petty squabble. His duty is to get revenge. But despite the constant...
- 4/4/2020
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
“The Truth,” directed by Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda, will be released in Korean cinemas in December this year. Rights were acquired by local distributor Tcast.
The highly acclaimed director was absent from the Busan International Film Festival’s opening ceremony, where he was Thursday named as Busan’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year award. But he has now arrived at the South Korean festival and will receive his prize before the gala screening of “The Truth” on Saturday.
“The Truth” is Kore-eda’s first feature film shot outside Japan and presented in a language other than his native Japanese. Largely in French, the film stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke. It sees a beloved, larger-than-life movie-star diva about to release her memoirs and getting ready to release a new movie, while simultaneously playing host to her daughter.
International rights to “The Truth” are represented by Japan’s Gaga...
The highly acclaimed director was absent from the Busan International Film Festival’s opening ceremony, where he was Thursday named as Busan’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year award. But he has now arrived at the South Korean festival and will receive his prize before the gala screening of “The Truth” on Saturday.
“The Truth” is Kore-eda’s first feature film shot outside Japan and presented in a language other than his native Japanese. Largely in French, the film stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke. It sees a beloved, larger-than-life movie-star diva about to release her memoirs and getting ready to release a new movie, while simultaneously playing host to her daughter.
International rights to “The Truth” are represented by Japan’s Gaga...
- 10/5/2019
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
Hirokazu Kore-eda received the Asian Film Maker of the Year award at the Busan International Film Festival on Thursday – one of the most prestigious prizes in the region.
But he has previously said that he felt like “something of an outsider” in the Japanese film industry.
Instead of serving an apprenticeship as an Ad for established directors – the standard route into the industry for decades – Kore-eda got his start working on TV programs and shooting TV documentaries as a staffer for the TV Man Union production company. His first fiction film as a director was “Maborosi,” which premiered at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.
This quick jump to a major film festival invitation – a holy grail many of his directing contemporaries and seniors seek but never find – made him an immediate stand-out, but did nothing to ease his outside status.
His subsequent successes did that. While becoming a regular at Cannes and winning prizes there,...
But he has previously said that he felt like “something of an outsider” in the Japanese film industry.
Instead of serving an apprenticeship as an Ad for established directors – the standard route into the industry for decades – Kore-eda got his start working on TV programs and shooting TV documentaries as a staffer for the TV Man Union production company. His first fiction film as a director was “Maborosi,” which premiered at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.
This quick jump to a major film festival invitation – a holy grail many of his directing contemporaries and seniors seek but never find – made him an immediate stand-out, but did nothing to ease his outside status.
His subsequent successes did that. While becoming a regular at Cannes and winning prizes there,...
- 10/3/2019
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
Early in the morning, late in the summer, the first ferryboat docked outside the Casino Palace shortly before 8 am, ejecting a crowd of critics onto the Lido and out toward the first screening of the year. Capping off weeks of excitement for yet another auteur-studded lineup, as well as endless controversies over its chronic lack of female representation, the 76th Venice Film Festival kicked off on August 28. And the Lido—that long strip of land separating the Venice lagoon from the Adriatic—braced for the return of a platoon of cinephiles that will keep flocking to its shores until the feast’s end on September 7. Now at its eighth edition under the aegis of Artistic Director Alberto Barbera, the festival has long turned into a fertile ground for awards season hopefuls. To be sure, this is nothing new: the late summer/early fall slot makes Venice an ideal launchpad for Oscar contenders,...
- 8/29/2019
- MUBI
The Venice Film Festival has set Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Verite) as its opening night screening. This is the first film the Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters director has made abroad and boasts a powerhouse cast led by Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke.
The Truth will screen in competition and world premiere on August 28. The story centers on Fabienne (Deneuve), a star of French cinema who reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir (Binoche) returns from New York to Paris with her husband (Hawke) and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
Festival Director Alberto Barbera says, “The encounter between the universe of Japan’s most important filmmaker today and two beloved actresses like Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, brought to life...
The Truth will screen in competition and world premiere on August 28. The story centers on Fabienne (Deneuve), a star of French cinema who reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir (Binoche) returns from New York to Paris with her husband (Hawke) and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
Festival Director Alberto Barbera says, “The encounter between the universe of Japan’s most important filmmaker today and two beloved actresses like Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, brought to life...
- 7/18/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
A ponderous true-crime procedural about a murder in France’s poorest commune, Arnaud Desplechin’s mostly lifeless but peripherally compelling “Oh Mercy!” finds the “My Golden Years” auteur returning to his birthplace to tell a story about a place that few people got to choose, and even fewer get to leave. If the film is a literal homecoming, however, it’s also a striking figurative departure for a filmmaker best known (and most beloved) for intricate, frazzled, and hyper-loquacious comedic dramas like “Kings and Queen” and “A Christmas Tale.” In that sense, this frigid misfire is most readily comparable to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “The Third Murder,” another flat genre flirtation from an otherwise reliable master.
Based on a killing that occurred in May of 2002, “Oh Mercy!” unfolds like an especially dull episode of “Law & Order: Roubaix.” The film begins on Christmas — not that the script Desplechin co-wrote with Léa Mysius...
Based on a killing that occurred in May of 2002, “Oh Mercy!” unfolds like an especially dull episode of “Law & Order: Roubaix.” The film begins on Christmas — not that the script Desplechin co-wrote with Léa Mysius...
- 5/22/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Despite some censorship of its gay content, “Bohemian Rhapsody” has broken the box office record in China for a film imported by the country’s small but growing National Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas. As of April 1, after just 10 days in theaters, the film has taken in RMB80.3 million ($11.1 million) in limited release. The movie has surpassed the alliance’s previous highest-grossing title — “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” which took in $10.3 million — and drawn attention to a little-known route for foreign films attempting to get into China without being hampered by the official quota for overseas titles.
The world’s most populous country has only a handful of dedicated art-house cinemas. Though Chinese art films continue to garner top prizes abroad, their box office prospects at home have historically been pitiable — so much so that, in 2016, a video went viral of an elderly producer literally getting on his knees to beg...
The world’s most populous country has only a handful of dedicated art-house cinemas. Though Chinese art films continue to garner top prizes abroad, their box office prospects at home have historically been pitiable — so much so that, in 2016, a video went viral of an elderly producer literally getting on his knees to beg...
- 4/4/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Once considered as a Japanese industry outsider, Hirokazu Kore-eda has thoroughly conquered that insider bastion, the Japan Academy Prizes, scooping eight trophies for his dark family drama “Shoplifters” at the 42nd annual award ceremony on March 1. Among them were best picture and best director honors – with the latter Kore-eda’s second in a row.
Administered by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association, the Japan Academy Prizes have been called Japan’s Oscars, but they have struggled to attain a similar clout and prestige. One reason is the perception that they are mostly parceled out by the local majors for the local majors. Celebrated auteur Takeshi Kitano told an audience at the 2014 Tokyo International Film Festival that “Toho, Toei, Shochiku and sometimes Nikkatsu…pass (the awards) around.”
“Shoplifters” was released in Japan by Gaga, not considered a major distributor of Japanese films but still a potent industry force with a long...
Administered by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association, the Japan Academy Prizes have been called Japan’s Oscars, but they have struggled to attain a similar clout and prestige. One reason is the perception that they are mostly parceled out by the local majors for the local majors. Celebrated auteur Takeshi Kitano told an audience at the 2014 Tokyo International Film Festival that “Toho, Toei, Shochiku and sometimes Nikkatsu…pass (the awards) around.”
“Shoplifters” was released in Japan by Gaga, not considered a major distributor of Japanese films but still a potent industry force with a long...
- 3/5/2019
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
The Truth
Fresh off his 2018 Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters (review), prolific Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his perennial output with his latest project, The Truth, which is headlined by Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in what will serve as his French language debut. Ever since graduating from documentary to narrative filmmaking with 1995’s Maborosi, Koreeda has been a major international favorite, competing in Cannes five times and twice in Venice.…...
Fresh off his 2018 Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters (review), prolific Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his perennial output with his latest project, The Truth, which is headlined by Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in what will serve as his French language debut. Ever since graduating from documentary to narrative filmmaking with 1995’s Maborosi, Koreeda has been a major international favorite, competing in Cannes five times and twice in Venice.…...
- 1/8/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2018 legal drama The Third Murder is shot mostly through panes of prison glass. In tackling the weighty subject of Japan’s death penalty, the director imbues his meditative mystery with a distinctly icy chill, which makes for a fascinating contrast with his follow-up (and Cannes Palme d’Or winner) Shoplifters, a personal Nyff favourite. […]
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- 12/25/2018
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Slash Film
When Cate Blanchett handed Kore-eda Hirokazu the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May, the “Shoplifters” director froze in place for a moment, as though paralyzed by the weight of the world’s most prestigious film award. Kore-eda had good reason to be shell-shocked. Despite emerging as the most feted Japanese filmmaker of his generation, being anointed as “Ozu’s heir” more times than he could count, and even winning the Cannes Jury Prize in 2013, Kore-eda still never thought this day would come.
The last time a film of his had been invited to screen at the festival (2016’s achingly wounded “After the Storm”), it had been relegated to the Un Certain Regard sidebar, a demotion that often anticipates a director’s irrelevance. And while Kore-eda had weathered that demotion before, his next feature — a grim murder-mystery that found him veering away from the kind of gentle family dramas that...
The last time a film of his had been invited to screen at the festival (2016’s achingly wounded “After the Storm”), it had been relegated to the Un Certain Regard sidebar, a demotion that often anticipates a director’s irrelevance. And while Kore-eda had weathered that demotion before, his next feature — a grim murder-mystery that found him veering away from the kind of gentle family dramas that...
- 11/20/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A version of this story about “Shoplifters” first appeared in the Foreign Language issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
On his seventh trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda finally won the Palme d’Or for “Shoplifters,” his slow-paced, humanistic drama about a household bound not by blood but by the variety of petty crimes they commit in order to survive.
The film is Japan’s entry in the Oscar foreign-language race this year, and this interview is one in a series of conversations TheWrap had with the directors of the foreign contenders.
Also Read: 'Shoplifters' Cannes Review: Is the Seventh Time a Charm for Hirokazu Kore-eda?
What led you to make this film?
Hirokazu Kore-Eda: This whole idea started when I finished “Like Father, Like Son” and started exploring the ties of family. I thought that next I wanted to explore a family that has no blood ties.
On his seventh trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda finally won the Palme d’Or for “Shoplifters,” his slow-paced, humanistic drama about a household bound not by blood but by the variety of petty crimes they commit in order to survive.
The film is Japan’s entry in the Oscar foreign-language race this year, and this interview is one in a series of conversations TheWrap had with the directors of the foreign contenders.
Also Read: 'Shoplifters' Cannes Review: Is the Seventh Time a Charm for Hirokazu Kore-eda?
What led you to make this film?
Hirokazu Kore-Eda: This whole idea started when I finished “Like Father, Like Son” and started exploring the ties of family. I thought that next I wanted to explore a family that has no blood ties.
- 11/18/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Third Murder, the latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Kore-eda (Our Little Sister, After The Storm), hits Blu-ray and DVD on November 13. The thriller centers on Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama), a high powered attorney who is defending a murder-robbery suspect named MIsumi (Kōji Yakusho). Initially hesitant at taking the job since Misumi has given a full [...]
The post Kore-eda Thriller ‘The Third Murder’ Lands Blu-Ray Release In November appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
The post Kore-eda Thriller ‘The Third Murder’ Lands Blu-Ray Release In November appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
- 10/31/2018
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
The Tiffcom market, a sales event adjacent to the Tokyo International Film Festival, always includes the latest film launches from Japan. This year the selection is especially varied and rich. Arranged by sales company, highlights include:
Kadokawa
“Chiwawa”
Scripted and directed by Ken Ninomiya, this mystery about a 20-year-old Instagram star who ends up dead in Tokyo Bay, is based on a popular comic. It features a cast that includes the internationally known Chiaki Kuriyama (“Kill Bill”) and Tadanobu Asano (“The Third Murder”).
“Hard-Core”
Festival favorite, Nobuhiro Yamashita has adapted a cult hit comic about a pair of misfits who are inseparable friends. They encounter a retro-looking robot with astonishing powers, and together embark on a bizarre hunt for long-buried treasure.
“The Antique: Secret of the Old Books”
Yukiko Mishima, director of the acclaimed 2017 drama “Dear Etranger,” has returned with a literary mystery, based on En Mikami’s best-selling novel.
Kadokawa
“Chiwawa”
Scripted and directed by Ken Ninomiya, this mystery about a 20-year-old Instagram star who ends up dead in Tokyo Bay, is based on a popular comic. It features a cast that includes the internationally known Chiaki Kuriyama (“Kill Bill”) and Tadanobu Asano (“The Third Murder”).
“Hard-Core”
Festival favorite, Nobuhiro Yamashita has adapted a cult hit comic about a pair of misfits who are inseparable friends. They encounter a retro-looking robot with astonishing powers, and together embark on a bizarre hunt for long-buried treasure.
“The Antique: Secret of the Old Books”
Yukiko Mishima, director of the acclaimed 2017 drama “Dear Etranger,” has returned with a literary mystery, based on En Mikami’s best-selling novel.
- 10/23/2018
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
Beloved Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda recently turned his attentions and talents to the more pulpy courtroom drama “The Third Murder,” but he’s back in traditional form — that is, family-focused features that seesaw between comedy and drama with ease — with his Palme d’Or-winning “Shoplifters.” The film, starring Kore-eda regulars Lily Franky and Kiki Kirin, debuted at the French film festival in May, where it went on to pick up the fest’s highest honor and kicked off what could shape up to be a stellar awards season.
The proof is already in the pudding: After its Cannes premiere, the film become Kore-eda’s biggest box office hit in Japan, taking in around $40 million. In China, the film became the biggest Japanese live-action film the country has ever played, earning over $14 million at the box office. Earlier this season, Japan picked the film as its official contender for this year’s best foreign-language film race.
The proof is already in the pudding: After its Cannes premiere, the film become Kore-eda’s biggest box office hit in Japan, taking in around $40 million. In China, the film became the biggest Japanese live-action film the country has ever played, earning over $14 million at the box office. Earlier this season, Japan picked the film as its official contender for this year’s best foreign-language film race.
- 10/5/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Japanese cult director Sion Sono is to direct a series for Netflix, due for worldwide distribution next year. Titled Ai-naki Mori de Sakebe, which translates as "Shout in the Loveless Forest," it is inspired by a real multiple murder incident, according to the director.
The series will star Kippei Shiina (Outrage), who was in Sono's Shinjuku Swan II manga adaptation, as the murderer, Shinnosuke Mitsushima (The Third Murder) and Denden, who has appeared in six of Sono's films.
"When I received the script, I couldn't hide my surprise. It really is too funny, too gruesome and ...
The series will star Kippei Shiina (Outrage), who was in Sono's Shinjuku Swan II manga adaptation, as the murderer, Shinnosuke Mitsushima (The Third Murder) and Denden, who has appeared in six of Sono's films.
"When I received the script, I couldn't hide my surprise. It really is too funny, too gruesome and ...
- 10/1/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hirokazu Kore-eda raises his Donostia Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival/Pablo Gomez Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda yesterday the first Asian filmmaker to be honoured with a Donostia Award for lifetime achievement at San Sebastian Film Festival.
The director has a long association with the Spanish festival, with his films - including Like Father, Like Son, Our Little Sister, The Third Murder and I Wish - appearing at the festival on 10 occasions. This year, he has brought his Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters.
Picking up his award last night, the 56-year-old told the audience: "I am just half way through my career, so I felt that a lifetime achievement award was a bit early for me."...
The director has a long association with the Spanish festival, with his films - including Like Father, Like Son, Our Little Sister, The Third Murder and I Wish - appearing at the festival on 10 occasions. This year, he has brought his Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters.
Picking up his award last night, the 56-year-old told the audience: "I am just half way through my career, so I felt that a lifetime achievement award was a bit early for me."...
- 9/24/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When Hirokazu Kore-eda returned to the San Sebastian International Film Festival to accept his Donostia Award on September 23rd, it marked a fitting bit of symmetry for a story that began twenty years earlier.
In 1998, Kore-eda arrived in San Sebastian a promising young upstart with his second feature, the bittersweet mortality drama “After Life,” playing in competition. A critical and audience favorite here, “After Life” helped cement the Japanese director’s reputation as one of the leading international auteurs.
Two decades later, the director returned celebrating another series of milestones, while his career was at another point of inflection. For one, Kore-eda’s stock has never been higher. This past March, his film “The Third Murder” swept the Japan Academy Prizes, taking home top honors in picture, director, screenplay and acting. Two months later, Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or for “Shoplifters,” becoming only the fourth Japanese filmmaker to win at Cannes.
In 1998, Kore-eda arrived in San Sebastian a promising young upstart with his second feature, the bittersweet mortality drama “After Life,” playing in competition. A critical and audience favorite here, “After Life” helped cement the Japanese director’s reputation as one of the leading international auteurs.
Two decades later, the director returned celebrating another series of milestones, while his career was at another point of inflection. For one, Kore-eda’s stock has never been higher. This past March, his film “The Third Murder” swept the Japan Academy Prizes, taking home top honors in picture, director, screenplay and acting. Two months later, Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or for “Shoplifters,” becoming only the fourth Japanese filmmaker to win at Cannes.
- 9/24/2018
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The comedy has a 10-day total of $288.2m.
Hello Mr Billionaire stayed top in the week of Jul 30-Aug 5, followed by Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings, as the crop of new releases didn’t light up the Chinese box office.
Following a prosperous debut weekend, Hello Mr Billionaire continued to thrive with $159.4m, which represented about 66% of the week’s total box office. Its 10-day total of $288.2m propelled it to be the 12th top grossing film of all time, surpassing Transformers 4 and The Ex-File 3.
As Mahua FunAge’s latest comedy, Hello Mr Billionaire has already outgrossed by over 40% Goodbye Mr Loser,...
Hello Mr Billionaire stayed top in the week of Jul 30-Aug 5, followed by Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings, as the crop of new releases didn’t light up the Chinese box office.
Following a prosperous debut weekend, Hello Mr Billionaire continued to thrive with $159.4m, which represented about 66% of the week’s total box office. Its 10-day total of $288.2m propelled it to be the 12th top grossing film of all time, surpassing Transformers 4 and The Ex-File 3.
As Mahua FunAge’s latest comedy, Hello Mr Billionaire has already outgrossed by over 40% Goodbye Mr Loser,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Hirokazu Koreeda’s effort to stray away from the various versions of the family drama, was, once again, crowned with success, winning most of the major awards from the Japanese Academy along with ones for Supporting Actor and Actress.
Shigemori and his law firm have been assigned to defend Misumi, a fired factory worker who has confessed to killing his former boss. Between the confession and Misumi’s former convictions, this seems a fairly cut-and-dry case for the defense team, whose job, as expected by the legal profession, is simply to reduce the charges and avoid the maximum punishment of the death penalty. But Shigemori starts detecting holes in Misumi’s statements, which have the unfortunate effect of both undermining the defendant’s credibility while raising doubts about his guilt. Is Shigemori’s only recourse to continue down the pragmatic line of “good legal strategy”? Or must...
Shigemori and his law firm have been assigned to defend Misumi, a fired factory worker who has confessed to killing his former boss. Between the confession and Misumi’s former convictions, this seems a fairly cut-and-dry case for the defense team, whose job, as expected by the legal profession, is simply to reduce the charges and avoid the maximum punishment of the death penalty. But Shigemori starts detecting holes in Misumi’s statements, which have the unfortunate effect of both undermining the defendant’s credibility while raising doubts about his guilt. Is Shigemori’s only recourse to continue down the pragmatic line of “good legal strategy”? Or must...
- 8/1/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The greatest of Japanese filmmakers have a chameleonic quality. Although these directors—Akira Kurosawa, for example—build their reputation around one genre, they export their thematic preoccupations to projects that couldn’t be more disparate in terms of subject matter. Hirokazu Kore-eda is one such modern master, whose soft-spoken family dramas are broken up by more unorthodox projects, like magical-realist efforts “After Life” and “Air Doll,” or “Hana,” a jidai-geki in the tradition of Kurosawa, albeit with an identifiable Kore-eda touch.
Continue reading ‘The Third Murder’ Isn’t Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Finest Work But Is A Damn Good Thriller Nonetheless [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Third Murder’ Isn’t Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Finest Work But Is A Damn Good Thriller Nonetheless [Review] at The Playlist.
- 7/20/2018
- by Bradley Warren
- The Playlist
Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) is set for an Aug. 3 release in China, with Huayi Brothers distributing in cooperation with Road Pictures, which picked up rights for the film after its Palme d'Or triumph at Cannes.
Kore-eda's legal drama The Third Murder was the Japanese director's first film to get a Chinese release when it was screened by Road Pictures on the country's newly developing arthouse circuit in March and April.
The involvement of Huayi Brothers, which is expanding its slate of Hollywood and other overseas films, should ensure Shoplifters gets a much wider release, a Gaga ...
Kore-eda's legal drama The Third Murder was the Japanese director's first film to get a Chinese release when it was screened by Road Pictures on the country's newly developing arthouse circuit in March and April.
The involvement of Huayi Brothers, which is expanding its slate of Hollywood and other overseas films, should ensure Shoplifters gets a much wider release, a Gaga ...
- 7/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) is set for an Aug. 3 release in China, with Huayi Brothers distributing in cooperation with Road Pictures, which picked up rights for the film after its Palme d'Or triumph at Cannes.
Kore-eda's legal drama The Third Murder was the Japanese director's first film to get a Chinese release when it was screened by Road Pictures on the country's newly developing arthouse circuit in March and April.
The involvement of Huayi Brothers, which is expanding its slate of Hollywood and other overseas films, should ensure Shoplifters gets a much wider release, a Gaga ...
Kore-eda's legal drama The Third Murder was the Japanese director's first film to get a Chinese release when it was screened by Road Pictures on the country's newly developing arthouse circuit in March and April.
The involvement of Huayi Brothers, which is expanding its slate of Hollywood and other overseas films, should ensure Shoplifters gets a much wider release, a Gaga ...
- 7/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Little ForestThe New York Asian Film Festival, now in its 17th year, has become the premiere showcase for East and Southeast Asian cinema in North America. From a modest selection of a mere eleven films in its first year (2002), the festival has grown in both size and scope: this year’s selection includes 58 films from across the continent, an eclectic mix of arthouse and grindhouse, a bold survey of popular and independent cinema from one of the most vibrant and exciting corners of the world. While most of the films are new, including several North American premieres, the festival includes some archival films, including mini-retrospectives on the work of directors Masato Harada and Dante Lam. Thanks to the magic of the Internet and online screeners, I was able to sample a handful of titles from this year’s Nyaff from my home, thousands of miles away from Lincoln Center. I...
- 6/29/2018
- MUBI
After a brief “stray” with “The Third Murder,” Hirokazu Koreeda returns to what he knows best, the family drama, with “Shoplifters,” one of his best works of the latest years, which netted him the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His brush with crime, though, seems to have affected him somewhat, as we are about to see.
Shoplifters is having its Slovakian festival premiere at Art Film Fest Kosice and later this year it will be distributed in theatres by Film Europe Media Company.
Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo leave in a rundown house with their son, Shota, his sister Aki and her grandmother, Hatsue. Osamu and Nobuyo have some low paying jobs, while Aki works as a sex worker in a peep show club. The money they receive, however, is not enough, and they rely much on Hatsue’s pension, and their constant shoplifting, into which...
Shoplifters is having its Slovakian festival premiere at Art Film Fest Kosice and later this year it will be distributed in theatres by Film Europe Media Company.
Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo leave in a rundown house with their son, Shota, his sister Aki and her grandmother, Hatsue. Osamu and Nobuyo have some low paying jobs, while Aki works as a sex worker in a peep show club. The money they receive, however, is not enough, and they rely much on Hatsue’s pension, and their constant shoplifting, into which...
- 6/14/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Third Murder Trailers
Hirokazu Koreeda‘s The Third Murder / Sandome no satsujin (2017) movie trailers stars Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, and Mikako Ichikawa. The Third Murder‘s plot synopsis: “Misumi has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. It looks like an open and shut case, [...]
Continue reading: The Third Murder Movie Trailers: A Prosecutor Searches for the Truth in a Horrific Courtroom Drama
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Hirokazu Koreeda‘s The Third Murder / Sandome no satsujin (2017) movie trailers stars Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, and Mikako Ichikawa. The Third Murder‘s plot synopsis: “Misumi has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. It looks like an open and shut case, [...]
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- 6/3/2018
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Hirokazu Kore-eda, one of Japan’s most cherished filmmakers, is seemingly unstoppable right about now. His most recent film Shoplifters was a major hit at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (our review), taking home the Palme d’Or. However, before we get to see Shoplifters in the U.S., there’s another Kore-eda film that demands our attention.
Initially premiering at the Venice Film Festival, The Third Murder – also known as its Japanese title Sandome no satsujin – found major success for Kore-eda: screening at a slew of top film festivals around the world and garnishing six awards at the Japanese Academy Awards. The Third Murder will be distributed domestically courtesy of Film Movement – and we have a new U.S. trailer.
Kore-eda, typically delivering compelling films that are cored within intimate human relationships, finds himself slightly outside his expected genre with The Third Murder. Staged as a hostile courtroom drama,...
Initially premiering at the Venice Film Festival, The Third Murder – also known as its Japanese title Sandome no satsujin – found major success for Kore-eda: screening at a slew of top film festivals around the world and garnishing six awards at the Japanese Academy Awards. The Third Murder will be distributed domestically courtesy of Film Movement – and we have a new U.S. trailer.
Kore-eda, typically delivering compelling films that are cored within intimate human relationships, finds himself slightly outside his expected genre with The Third Murder. Staged as a hostile courtroom drama,...
- 6/2/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
"His story changes every time I see him." Film Movement has released another new official Us trailer for Hirokazu Kore-eda's film The Third Murder, which premiered last year at the festivals in the fall. The acclaimed Japanese filmmaker went on to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year with his latest, titled Shoplifters. This court room thriller is being released in the Us before that one, since that one just premiered and will still play at festivals the rest of this year. Kore-eda's The Third Murder is about a court case involving a murder-robbery suspect named Misumi, played by Kôji Yakusho, who has confessed to the crimes. However, his defense attorney, played by Masaharu Fukuyama, has other ideas about this case, which could mean the difference between life and death for Misumi. The cast also includes Hirose Suzu. This looks like a very intriguing mystery with big twists and turns.
- 5/31/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Hot off his big Palme d’Or win at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his lauded humanist drama “Shoplifters,” Japan’s beloved auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda is bringing a very different kind of film to American cinemas: his icy courtroom drama “The Third Murder.” The film debuted at Venice last year, where it signaled a change of pace for Kore-eda, who is best known for his deeply felt dramas that typically tackle interpersonal emotions and family upheavals.
That’s not to say that “The Third Murder” doesn’t smack of some Kore-eda mainstays, including a canny exploration of ethical quandaries, now filtered through a knotty criminal case. The film stars Kore-eda’s own “Like Father, Like Son” star Fukuyama Masaharu as elite lawyer Shigemori, who is tasked with defending aging ex-con Misumi (Yakusho Koji) on his second murder charge. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case aren’t great,...
That’s not to say that “The Third Murder” doesn’t smack of some Kore-eda mainstays, including a canny exploration of ethical quandaries, now filtered through a knotty criminal case. The film stars Kore-eda’s own “Like Father, Like Son” star Fukuyama Masaharu as elite lawyer Shigemori, who is tasked with defending aging ex-con Misumi (Yakusho Koji) on his second murder charge. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case aren’t great,...
- 5/31/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Japanese film “Shoplifters” been described as a surprise winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. That may have more to do with the director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s steady output and six previous appearances in Cannes, rather than any slight against his latest humanist drama, which is both familiar and inventive.
Cannes jury president Cate Blanchett called it a difficult decision, but the right choice for Palme d’Or. “We were completely bowled over by ‘Shoplifters.’ How intermeshed the performances were with the directorial vision,” Blanchett said.
“In a long career of incredible peaks, Hirokazu Kore-eda has delivered one of his best works. ‘Shoplifters’ is an incredible story that deals with familial bonds in a way I’ve never seen before,” said Eamon Bowles, president of Magnolia Films, which grabbed North American rights to the film a day before the closing ceremony.
And the film scored highly with reviewers.
Cannes jury president Cate Blanchett called it a difficult decision, but the right choice for Palme d’Or. “We were completely bowled over by ‘Shoplifters.’ How intermeshed the performances were with the directorial vision,” Blanchett said.
“In a long career of incredible peaks, Hirokazu Kore-eda has delivered one of his best works. ‘Shoplifters’ is an incredible story that deals with familial bonds in a way I’ve never seen before,” said Eamon Bowles, president of Magnolia Films, which grabbed North American rights to the film a day before the closing ceremony.
And the film scored highly with reviewers.
- 5/19/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
After flirting with genre in courtroom drama The Third Murder, which bowed at Venice last year, Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda—a regular face at Cannes since the early 2000s—made a return to familiar ground, not to mention a quick turnaround, with his new film Shoplifters. Having said that, Shoplifters isn’t quite what it appears at first glance: dealing with a family of petty criminals who live on the breadline, it slowly reveals its secrets, gradually building to a surprising climax in the final stretch of its beautifully judged two-hour running time.
“It takes place in downtown Tokyo,” the director told Deadline, “and it’s about this particular family who suffers from poverty and lives off of committing crime. So, it’s a very peculiar family.” The inspiration, he continued, came from an earlier project in 2013. “I’d made a film called Like Father, Like Son,” he said, “in...
“It takes place in downtown Tokyo,” the director told Deadline, “and it’s about this particular family who suffers from poverty and lives off of committing crime. So, it’s a very peculiar family.” The inspiration, he continued, came from an earlier project in 2013. “I’d made a film called Like Father, Like Son,” he said, “in...
- 5/19/2018
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
With Like Father Like Son (2013), Our Little Sister (2015), and After the Storm (2016) all premiering one after the other at the Cannes film festival and The Third Murder getting a berth last autumn in Venice, it seemed as if Hirokazu Kore-eda, now well settled into this mature career groove, was making great films with every other effort. So does Shoplifters — which has the director once again competing for the Palme d’Or — adhere to this pattern? It would seem so.
After the peculiar courtroom detours of Murder, Kore-eda returns to familiar ground — and returns to form — with Shoplifters, yet another story of unusual family setups and one that, once again, ponders questions of what exactly constitutes normal or even healthy choices when raising a child.
The story focuses on one such unconventional family, this time made up of an older matriarch named Hatsue (played by Kore-eda regular Kirin Kiki); Nobuyo and...
After the peculiar courtroom detours of Murder, Kore-eda returns to familiar ground — and returns to form — with Shoplifters, yet another story of unusual family setups and one that, once again, ponders questions of what exactly constitutes normal or even healthy choices when raising a child.
The story focuses on one such unconventional family, this time made up of an older matriarch named Hatsue (played by Kore-eda regular Kirin Kiki); Nobuyo and...
- 5/16/2018
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
The Third Murder (2017), directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, screens Friday May 13th through Sunday April 15th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30pm each night.
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defense of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low – his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim’s family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all. The film is in Japanese with English subtitles.
Admission is:
$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for Webster University staff and faculty
Free for Webster students with proper I.D.
Advance tickets are...
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defense of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low – his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim’s family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all. The film is in Japanese with English subtitles.
Admission is:
$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for Webster University staff and faculty
Free for Webster students with proper I.D.
Advance tickets are...
- 5/16/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s sixth trip to Cannes comes after Our Little Sister in 2015, and the one before that was Like Father, Like Son (which took home the Jury Prize in 2013). The Japanese filmmaker as seen previous entries Distance (2001) and Nobody Knows (2004) shore up in the comp, while his sex doll romance Air Doll was selected for the Un Certain Regard in 2009. Shoplifters which is primarily centered around Osamu and his son who come across a little girl in the freezing cold. This comes after The Third Murder (premiered at Venice/Tiff).
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- 5/14/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to “Outrage Coda,” Takeshi Kitano’s 18th directorial outing and the final installment in his “Outrage” crime trilogy.
“Outrage Coda” is being represented in international markets by Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams.
Set five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, “Outrage Coda” follows former yakuza boss Otomo, who now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan.
Film Movement previously handled Kitano’s “Violent Cop,” “Boiling Point” and “Hana-Bi.” The U.S. company is planning to give “Outrage Coda” a limited theatrical and home entertainment release later this year.
“Kitano is one of the most unique and accomplished filmmakers of his generation,” said president of Film Movement Michael Rosenberg, who announced the deal today with Charlotte Mickie, Celluloid Dreams’s VP.
“From comedy to highly stylized violence, and from actor to director and writer,...
“Outrage Coda” is being represented in international markets by Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams.
Set five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, “Outrage Coda” follows former yakuza boss Otomo, who now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan.
Film Movement previously handled Kitano’s “Violent Cop,” “Boiling Point” and “Hana-Bi.” The U.S. company is planning to give “Outrage Coda” a limited theatrical and home entertainment release later this year.
“Kitano is one of the most unique and accomplished filmmakers of his generation,” said president of Film Movement Michael Rosenberg, who announced the deal today with Charlotte Mickie, Celluloid Dreams’s VP.
“From comedy to highly stylized violence, and from actor to director and writer,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Japanese actor Yakusho’s work includes 1997 Palme d’Or winner The Eel.
This year’s Tokyo International Film Festival will be hosting retrospectives of the work of Japanese actor Koji Yakusho and animation director Masaaki Yuasa.
Tiff’s Japan Now section will screen a selection of Yakusho’s work, which spans Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Eel (1997); Eureka (2001), which received the prize of the Cannes Ecumenical Jury; and international productions such as Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005) and Babel (2007). He also recently starred in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder (2017). “Koji Yakusho is Japan’s leading international actor, demonstrating...
This year’s Tokyo International Film Festival will be hosting retrospectives of the work of Japanese actor Koji Yakusho and animation director Masaaki Yuasa.
Tiff’s Japan Now section will screen a selection of Yakusho’s work, which spans Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Eel (1997); Eureka (2001), which received the prize of the Cannes Ecumenical Jury; and international productions such as Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005) and Babel (2007). He also recently starred in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder (2017). “Koji Yakusho is Japan’s leading international actor, demonstrating...
- 5/9/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
We may be getting Infinity War in a matter of weeks, but a genuine dream team-up is happening with titans of the international film industry. Juliette Binoche, who gives one of her best performances in Claire Denis‘ Let the Sunshine In coming later this month, is teaming with Catherine Deneuve for a new drama from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (After the Storm, Still Walking).
Binoche first discussed the project a few years back, telling Paris Match that Hirokazu Kore-eda had seen Clouds of Sils Maria at Cannes and “it inspired him to write a script for Catherine Deneuve, Ethan Hawke and myself.” In the film, the Umbrellas of Cherbourg star will play an actress, while Binoche will play her daughter, who is a screenwriter. Back then, the star said filming would kick off in two or three years, and it looks like Kore-eda is right on schedule as Figurants has recently shared a casting notice,...
Binoche first discussed the project a few years back, telling Paris Match that Hirokazu Kore-eda had seen Clouds of Sils Maria at Cannes and “it inspired him to write a script for Catherine Deneuve, Ethan Hawke and myself.” In the film, the Umbrellas of Cherbourg star will play an actress, while Binoche will play her daughter, who is a screenwriter. Back then, the star said filming would kick off in two or three years, and it looks like Kore-eda is right on schedule as Figurants has recently shared a casting notice,...
- 4/10/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
This is the review of The Third Murder, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, and starring Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Mikako Ichikawa and Izumi Matsuoka. Written by Joshua Glenn for Pure Movies. Opening with a sudden and brutal act of violence, The Third Murder introduces its murderer with the same matter-of-factness with which he is viewed by the legal system. Walking along a river bed with a man we soon discover is his boss, Misumi suddenly snaps and clobbers his companion over the head. He continues to strike him once he’s down, before dousing him in gasoline and setting him alight. The fire illuminates Misumi’s face as he looks on with an implacable expression and wipes the blood from his cheek. From the off, the case is cut-and-dried. Misumi is guilty, there can be no doubt about that. He murdered a man. We saw it with our own eyes.
- 4/4/2018
- by Joshua Glenn
- Pure Movies
’Pacific Rim Uprising’ opens in second place.
Rank Film / Distributor Weekend Gross (Fri-Sun) Running Total Week 1 Peter Rabbit (Sony) £4.6m £13.6m 2 2 Pacific Rim Uprising (Universal) £1.65m £1.65m 1 3 Black Panther (Disney) £1.35m £44.9m 6 4 Tomb Raider (Warner) £1.1m £5.47m 2 5 The Greatest Showman (Fox) £750,164 £40.11m 13
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate - 1.42
Sony
Peter Rabbit comfortably held onto top position at the UK box office this weekend with another impressive performance.
Following a bumper opening session, the family film added a further £4.6m to keep it top of the tree. It has now grossed £13.6m after just two weeks on release. With...
Rank Film / Distributor Weekend Gross (Fri-Sun) Running Total Week 1 Peter Rabbit (Sony) £4.6m £13.6m 2 2 Pacific Rim Uprising (Universal) £1.65m £1.65m 1 3 Black Panther (Disney) £1.35m £44.9m 6 4 Tomb Raider (Warner) £1.1m £5.47m 2 5 The Greatest Showman (Fox) £750,164 £40.11m 13
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate - 1.42
Sony
Peter Rabbit comfortably held onto top position at the UK box office this weekend with another impressive performance.
Following a bumper opening session, the family film added a further £4.6m to keep it top of the tree. It has now grossed £13.6m after just two weeks on release. With...
- 3/26/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Just months after premiering “The Third Murder” in Venice, Hirokazu Kore-eda is back with a new film. The Japanese auteur has been a mainstay of the festival circuit for years, making frequent trips to Cannes with acclaimed dramas like “Nobody Knows,” “Our Little Sister,” and “After the Storm.” “Shoplifters” is set for theatrical release in Japan on June 8, notes the Film Stage, making another Croisette debut entirely possible. Watch the film’s first teaser below.
Here’s the synopsis: “After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them…...
Here’s the synopsis: “After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them…...
- 3/17/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Hirokazu Kore-eda's complex legal drama The Third Murder was the big winner at the 41st Japan Academy Prize, taking best picture, director, supporting actor, supporting actress, editing and screenplay.
Kore-eda (Like Father, Like Son) himself took home four awards. He wrote, edited and directed The Third Murder, which screened in the main competition in Venice last year.
Koji Yakusho (Babel, Memoirs of a Geisha) was nominated in the supporting actor category for both The Third Murder and historical epic Sekigahara, winning for the former. Best supporting actress was won by Suzu Hirose, 19, for her performance as the daughter of...
Kore-eda (Like Father, Like Son) himself took home four awards. He wrote, edited and directed The Third Murder, which screened in the main competition in Venice last year.
Koji Yakusho (Babel, Memoirs of a Geisha) was nominated in the supporting actor category for both The Third Murder and historical epic Sekigahara, winning for the former. Best supporting actress was won by Suzu Hirose, 19, for her performance as the daughter of...
- 3/2/2018
- by Gavin J. Blair
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Following up his best film this decade, After the Storm, Hirokazu Kore-eda is continuing his usually prolific streak with a pair of dramas. Last fall saw the premiere of his murder mystery/courtroom drama The Third Murder and he’s now finishing up his next film, Shoplifters, in time for a summer release in Japan and likely Cannes premiere. Today brings the first look at the latter and a new trailer for the former.
First up, Shoplifters stars Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Kengo Kora, Sosuke Ikematsu, Chizuru Ikewaki, Yuki Yamada, Yoko Moriguchi and Akira Emoto, the film follows a family of shoplifters who take in an orphan. Then we have a new U.K. trailer for The Third Murder, which follows a defense attorney (Masaharu Fukuyama) who has different ideas about the case than his client (Kôji Yakusho), who confessed. Check out both the first look and trailer (hat tip to First Showing) below,...
First up, Shoplifters stars Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Kengo Kora, Sosuke Ikematsu, Chizuru Ikewaki, Yuki Yamada, Yoko Moriguchi and Akira Emoto, the film follows a family of shoplifters who take in an orphan. Then we have a new U.K. trailer for The Third Murder, which follows a defense attorney (Masaharu Fukuyama) who has different ideas about the case than his client (Kôji Yakusho), who confessed. Check out both the first look and trailer (hat tip to First Showing) below,...
- 2/19/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"No one here tells the truth." Arrow Films has released an official UK trailer for The Third Murder, the latest film from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who last brought us After the Storm just last year. The Third Murder premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals last fall, and still doesn't have a Us release set yet. The film's story is about a court case involving a murder-robbery suspect named Misumi, played by Kôji Yakusho, who has confessed to the crimes. However, his defense attorney, played by Masaharu Fukuyama, has other ideas about this case, which could mean the difference between life and death for Misumi. The cast also includes Hirose Suzu. This received some solid reviews out of festivals last year, and it looks like a seriously compelling legal drama that brings up intriguing questions. See below. Here's the official UK trailer (+ poster) for Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Third Murder,...
- 2/16/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
On Body And Soul and I Am Not Your Negro are also in the process of being imported into China as Naac ramps up arthouse slate.
Source: Fox Searchlight Pictures
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
Golden Globe-winning drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri will receive a theatrical release in China on March 2 as part of an expanding slate handled by the territory’s National Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas (Naac).
China’s Huaxia Distribution, one of only two state-approved distributors of foreign movies, is overseeing the film’s distribution, working closely with Fox Searchlight and the Naac. The alliance is responsible for booking the film into its members’ screens, which currently number around 600 in 89 cities across China. The three co-distributors will also collaborate on the film’s marketing.
“The number of screens in the alliance is increasing continuously, so by the time we release the film we expect it to be on more than 600 screens,” says Naac president...
Source: Fox Searchlight Pictures
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
Golden Globe-winning drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri will receive a theatrical release in China on March 2 as part of an expanding slate handled by the territory’s National Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas (Naac).
China’s Huaxia Distribution, one of only two state-approved distributors of foreign movies, is overseeing the film’s distribution, working closely with Fox Searchlight and the Naac. The alliance is responsible for booking the film into its members’ screens, which currently number around 600 in 89 cities across China. The three co-distributors will also collaborate on the film’s marketing.
“The number of screens in the alliance is increasing continuously, so by the time we release the film we expect it to be on more than 600 screens,” says Naac president...
- 1/22/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Angels Wear White, Youth and The Third Murder also score multiple nods.
Source: 21st Century Shengkai Film
‘Legend Of The Demon Cat’
Chen Kaige’s lavish period drama Legend Of The Demon Cat racked up the most nominations for this year’s Asian Film Awards, with six nods in all, including best director.
The co-production between Hong Kong, China and Japan was also nominated for best supporting actress (Kitty Zhang Yuqi), cinematography, costume design, production design and visual effects. However, the film wasn’t nominated in the best film category.
Three films scored five nods apiece and were all nominated for best film – Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White and Feng Xiaogang’s Youth, both from mainland China, and Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder.
Rounding out the best film category are Newton from Indian filmmaker Amit V. Masurkar and The Day After from South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo, which both racked...
Source: 21st Century Shengkai Film
‘Legend Of The Demon Cat’
Chen Kaige’s lavish period drama Legend Of The Demon Cat racked up the most nominations for this year’s Asian Film Awards, with six nods in all, including best director.
The co-production between Hong Kong, China and Japan was also nominated for best supporting actress (Kitty Zhang Yuqi), cinematography, costume design, production design and visual effects. However, the film wasn’t nominated in the best film category.
Three films scored five nods apiece and were all nominated for best film – Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White and Feng Xiaogang’s Youth, both from mainland China, and Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder.
Rounding out the best film category are Newton from Indian filmmaker Amit V. Masurkar and The Day After from South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo, which both racked...
- 1/11/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Courtroom drama to be released in Q1, 2018.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder will be distributed theatrically by China’s new arthouse circuit, the National Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas (Naac), in the first quarter of 2018.
Source: Gaga Corp
The Third Murder
The Japanese courtroom drama, sold by Gaga Corp in Asian territories, is the first Asian title to be selected by the Naac, excluding classic titles that the alliance has been distributing since its launch in 2016.
The release will also mark the first time that Kore-eda, one of Japan’s leading auteurs with credits including Like Father, Like Son and Nobody Knows, has had a film released theatrically in mainland China.
Produced by Fuji Television, Amuse and Gaga, The Third Murder revolves around a lawyer defending a self-confessed murderer who begins to question his own faith in the legal process. The cast is headed by Fukuyama Masaharu, who also starred in John Woo’s recent crime thriller [link=tt...
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder will be distributed theatrically by China’s new arthouse circuit, the National Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas (Naac), in the first quarter of 2018.
Source: Gaga Corp
The Third Murder
The Japanese courtroom drama, sold by Gaga Corp in Asian territories, is the first Asian title to be selected by the Naac, excluding classic titles that the alliance has been distributing since its launch in 2016.
The release will also mark the first time that Kore-eda, one of Japan’s leading auteurs with credits including Like Father, Like Son and Nobody Knows, has had a film released theatrically in mainland China.
Produced by Fuji Television, Amuse and Gaga, The Third Murder revolves around a lawyer defending a self-confessed murderer who begins to question his own faith in the legal process. The cast is headed by Fukuyama Masaharu, who also starred in John Woo’s recent crime thriller [link=tt...
- 1/11/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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