

In 2008 Koreeda’s film Still Walking focused on a family over 24 hours as they commemorate the death of the oldest son 15 years before. This movie won several awards at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. In 2004 Koreeda began to gain international fame with his movie Nobody Knows which was based on the true story of four children who had been abandoned and who survived for nine months by themselves. They would then experience this memory forever. In the 1998 movie After Life he told the story of souls, people who have just died, who need to choose their happiest memory to serve as their heaven. Hirokazu Koreeda is a director who has made the move from directing documentaries in the 1990s to now writing and directing films which document human lift. If you like Like Father, Like Son, you might also like 2010s Japanese Films, Films Directed By Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japanese Psychological Drama Films, and 2010s Psychological Drama Films.Currently out on release on DVD from Arrow Films Review by Mike Sullivan TV Audience Award at the 2013 San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film was also shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and won both the Rogers People's Choice Award at the 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival and the Wuaki. The award sparked a significant response in Japan, and the national theatrical release was brought forward by a week, on 28 September 2013. In a ceremony, it won the Jury Prize and a commendation from the Ecumenical Jury. After the screening, the audience welcomed the film with a ten-minute standing ovation, and director Kore-eda and Fukuyama were moved to tears. It premièred on at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる, Soshite Chichi ni Naru) is a 2013 Japanese drama film edited, written, and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, starring Masaharu Fukuyama in his first role as a father.
