A powerful story about a broken family and a father's dogged attempts to glue it back together, Kore-eda’s funny, accessible drama is as immense in feeling as it is small in scale.

A career highpoint for Kore-eda, this lyrical and profoundly moving family reunion drama is one of the director’s most personal works to date, created as a tribute to his late mother. It depicts one summer’s day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a commemorative ritual.

An exquisitely nuanced family drama, Our Little Sister is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s heartfelt tale of a trio of adult sisters who take into their care the teenage half-sister they never knew they had following the passing of their absent father.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or-winning masterpiece examines the forces holding an impoverished family together on the outskirts of Tokyo. A brilliant and audacious film, this study of family trauma and fear of poverty is one of Kore-eda’s very best.

Based on a true story, Kore-eda’s highly acclaimed Nobody Knows charts the abandonment by their mother and slow descent into feral degradation of four children in a small Tokyo apartment.

A touching, understated examination of nature vs nurture, Kore-eda’s hugely rewarding family drama focusses on the reaction of two separate families from different social spheres to the discovery that their respective children were accidentally switched at birth.

A life-sized blow-up sex doll magically comes to life, buoyed by Korean star Doona Bae’s beguiling lead performance, in Kore-eda’s sweet fantasy-romance, based on the manga series Kuuki Ningyo by Yoshiie Gōda.

Hirokazu Kore-eda won Best Director 1995 Venice Film Festival for his brilliant debut feature, which follows a widow’s coastal relocation and efforts to rebuild her life after her spouse takes his own life.

Making a departure from his usual gentle family dramas, Kore-eda turns convention on its head to create a captivating and unknowable puzzle in this complex courtroom murder mystery.

Inspired by the real-life mass homicide committed by the Aum Sect in Japan, Kore-eda’s Distance grapples with the impenetrable mystery surrounding a suicide cult’s mass killing and the relatives of those involved who meet on the anniversary to contemplate their loved ones’ deadly actions.

Arguably Kore-eda’s masterpiece, After Life is set in a mundane, bureaucratic purgatory where the recently deceased are encouraged to choose their single happiest memory to spend eternity with.

Moving, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, and often mysterious, this deeply considered, delicate family drama tells the complex story of two young boys dreaming of reunion following their parents' separation.