Before Chloe Zhao and Kore-eda Hirokazu sat down for their Tokyo International Film Festival conversation, they had each been crying over the other’s work. Kore-eda watched Zhao’s “Hamnet” in a small ...

Daigo & Ayase Haruka are starring in Kore-eda's 'Sheep In The Box' ©2026「箱の中の羊」製作委員会 Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has started production on his latest feature, Sheep In The Box, with Ayase Haruka ...

In conversation with Kore-eda, 'Hamnet' director Chloe Zhao says that she is currently exploring making a doc, but admits that it will take a lot of courage.

That morning of their conversation, Zhao had risen at 4 a.m., jet-lagged, to watch Kore-eda’s 1998 masterpiece “After Life.” She was crying for an hour while her makeup team worked on her before the ...