Kore-eda Hirokazu

"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