Hirokazu Koreeda

Yeah?

Ooh, Kore-eda.

Japanese filmmaker.

He's still doing stuff.

Who?

Kore-eda Hirokazu.

You know Still Walking?

Still Walking.

Yeah.

Um, another one that I saw that I thought was great was, uh, Kore-eda's live action adaptation of Look Back.

Yeah.

I...

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this one is like an, I think the movie's like an hour 40.

But Kore-eda, he was developing it before the anime even came out, and his spin and his humanity as a filmmaker, uh, he does a great job of kind of expanding the story, like expanding it certain ways.

Such a great visual style, too.

Uh, let's, let's speed this up.

I didn't really like the new Koreeda movie, Look Back.

It's just like a, a very generic manga.

Uh, supposedly there was a, a animated version of it that was 53 minutes long.

That's right.

We also take a look at a new Japanese film from the director, the master Takeshi Miike, a movie called Sham, based on a real-life case that was previously interpreted in the Kore-eda movie Monster, which I haven't seen, but I know you have, Tristan, so I'm keen to hear your thoughts on the film there.

But for the on-air segment with Pamela Boland on Brekkie, we take a look at two big cinema releases.

You review Other Mommy, the new horror film from director Rob Savage, starring Jessica Chastain.

But I guess that's kind of what he's doing here.

It felt almost like an exercise in manipulation, to go, how quickly can I get you to ricochet back and forth between who you absolutely despise in a 90-minute movie? How did you feel about Sham?

Yeah, it was interesting because the case was the inspiration for the 2023 film Monster by Harukazu Kore-eda.

And Kore-eda actually has a film in the Japanese Film Festival this year, Look Back, which has already been made into an anime, but this is a live-action version of it.

Live action, it feels so weird to me because I always think of like the Ninja Turtle movie with like where they're, yeah, where they're people or something.

But it is directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and it stars Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Furie Nanasi, Nanasi? Sorry.

And Roka Okada.

The premise is a fourth grader, Fujino, is admired for the comics she makes for her school newspaper.

There are some directors that I do take note of and I do try to see whether or not we can get in our, whether or not we can get it in our festival or not.

So, like, directors like Hirokazu Kore-eda, um, he's such a big director who's making waves overseas and has made such beautiful films.

I was really excited to see that he was directing Look Back, and it's just ...

Yeah, we're really proud to be having the Australian premiere of that at the Japanese Film Festival.

Yeah.

I think, as I think about it, I think I would, uh, the best comparison to The Eel to me is, uh, Koreeda, Hirokazu Koreeda.

The more I think about Koreeda, who did M- Monster 2023.

Big fan of his work.

There's just a humanity to it that I love.

Last film that Jack reviewed for the website, and it is playing at LFF, which is Look Back.

Look back, yes, this is the biggest snub of the awards of Venice, unfortunately, is the new film from legendary Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

And it's his best film since Shoplifters.

Kore-eda is a legendary director.