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According to the director Hirokazu Kore-eda, though Nobody Knows was inspired by the true story of the Sugamo child abandonment case, it is not a factual recounting, and only the settings and the ending of the story are based on the true story. [8] Hirokazu Kore-eda had drafted and revised several screenplays for over 15 years. [9]
The Sugamo child-abandonment case (巣鴨子供置き去り事件, Sugamo kodomo okizari jiken) was a situation uncovered in 1988 in Tokyo's Toshima Ward.It involved a mother of five children who abandoned the four surviving young children for months, resulting in the death of one.
Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝 裕和, Koreeda Hirokazu, born 6 June 1962) is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films , including Nobody Knows (2004), Still Walking (2008), and After the Storm (2016).
In film after film, from “Nobody Knows” to “Shoplifters,” Japanese master Kore-eda Hirokazu has proven himself to be among the medium’s most humanistic directors, inclined to see the ...
Kore-eda Hirokazu returns to Japan for his latest film “Monster,” which poses this question to audiences: “Who really is the monster?” While location scouting, the filmmaker was looking ...
Hirokazu Kore-eda (2015) For Hirokazu Kore-eda , Monster is the first Japanese-language film he has directed since the international success of Shoplifters (2018), which won the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards .
Ace Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu is in advanced post-production on “Asura,” a family drama series that marks his second show for global streaming giant Netflix. “Asura,” which ...
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda [14] said that he developed the story for Shoplifters when considering his earlier film Like Father, Like Son, with the question "What makes a family?" [4] He had been considering a film exploring this question for 10 years before making Shoplifters. [15] Kore-eda described it as his "socially conscious" film. [16]