Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Shared Spaces of Filmmaking

Beyond Ozu and Loach: Kore-eda Hirokazu in Japanese and World Cinema

Nonorganized Labor and Shared Spaces of Collaboration in Kore-eda’s Early Documentaries

Grifter Families and Networks of Exchange in Shoplifters

Reimagining Masculine Bodies in Hana; Like Father, Like Son; and The Third Murder

Body Moving: The Dynamics of Placemaking in Our Little Sister, Still Walking, and After the Storm

Private and Public Bodies of Memory in After Life, The Truth, and Distance

Interviews with Kore-eda Hirokazu

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Marc Yamada is associate professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of The Lost Decades.

Reviews

“Marc Yamada reveals how Kore-eda’s films connect to global audiences through their focus on figures like children suffering from neglect and families surviving at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Yamada provides new approaches towards understanding Kore-eda’s work in terms of a broader critique of neoliberalism.”--Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, author of Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s "A close read of the works of one of the world’s most deeply human writer-directors. The section studying 2018’s Shoplifters is especially strong. But his entire corpus is shown to be well worth analyzing. " --Film Stage