Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s seventh go-round in Cannes competition, Monster, received a six-minute standing ovation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kore-eda Hirokazu returns to Japan for his latest film “Monster,” which poses this question to audiences: “Who really is the ...

The Japanese auteur, in Cannes with his new drama, discusses comparisons to Kurosawa’s 'Rashomon,' why the film is a departure for him and collaborating with the late, great composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes 2023. Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s “Monster” marks the director’s return to films set in Japan for the first time since winning the Palme d’Or ...

This image is from “Monster,” courtesy of Well Go USA. The characters of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (“Shoplifters”) films tend to fight a lot of demons. Some are inner demons, the recurring voices in their ...

The celebrated Japanese film-maker on optimism, storytelling, working with the late Ryuichi Sakamoto and his newest film. RB: You normally write the scripts for your films but for Monster, Yuji ...

Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda is a perceptive observer of families, keenly detecting the quirks that make an individual unique and the whole stronger and more complicated. 2018’s masterful Palme d ...

The film which screened at the Toronto Film Festival, opens with Minato, played by Kurokawa Soya, an 11-year-old fifth grader who watches a burning building from afar. Kore-eda returns to this ...

Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-Eda‘s seventh go-round in Cannes competition, Monster, received a six-minute standing ovation Wednesday in the Grand Theatre Lumiere. He won the Palme d’Or back in ...