Kore-eda Hirokazu Collection - 4-DVD Box Set ( Wandâfuru raifu / Dare mo shiranai / Aruitemo aruitemo / Kûki ningyô ) ( After Life / Nobody Knows / Still Walking / Air Doll )

Kore-eda Hirokazu Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Wandâfuru raifu / Dare mo shiranai / Aruitemo aruitemo / Kûki ningyô
Alternate Title: After Life / Nobody Knows / Still Walking / Air Doll
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
480 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1998 - 2009 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Hirokazu Koreeda

Written By:
Hirokazu Koreeda
Yoshiie Goda

Actors:
Arata ..... Takashi Mochizuki, counsellor
Erika Oda ..... Shiori Satonaka, trainee counsellor
Susumu Terajima ..... Satoru Kawashima, counsellor
Takashi Naitô ..... Takuro Sugie, counsellor
Kyôko Kagawa ..... Kyoko Watanabe, Ichiro's Wife
Kei Tani ..... Kennosuke Nakamura, boss
Taketoshi Naitô ..... Ichiro Watanabe, who cannot choose his favourite experience
Tôru Yuri ..... Gisuke Shoda, who talks about sex
Yûsuke Iseya ..... Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience
Sayaka Yoshino ..... Kana Yoshino, talks about Disneyland
Kazuko Shirakawa ..... Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man
Kôtarô Shiga ..... Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past
Hisako Hara ..... Kiyo Nishimura, old lady who loves cherry blossoms
Sadao Abe ..... Ichi
Natsuo Ishidô ..... Kyoko Watanabe as a young woman
Yûya Yagira ..... Akira Fukushima
Ayu Kitaura ..... Kyoko
Hiei Kimura ..... Shigeru
Momoko Shimizu ..... Yuki
Hanae Kan ..... Saki
You ..... Keiko, the mother
Kazuyoshi Kushida ..... Yoshinaga, The Landlord
Yukiko Okamoto ..... Eriko Yoshinaga
Sei Hiraizumi ..... Mini-market Manager
Ryo Kase ..... Mini-market Employee
Takako Tate ..... Mini-market teller
Yûichi Kimura ..... Sugihara (Taxi Driver)
Ken'ichi Endô ..... Pachinko Parlor Employee
Susumu Terajima ..... Baseball coach
Shinichi Hashizawa ..... Shopper
Asato Hayashida
Suguru Horimizu
Tairiku Horita
Haruna Imai
Michi'e Kakimaru
Yasuhiro Kamakae
Shirô Katô
Kaminari Kobayashi
Koji Koike
Tomoko Kuroki
Hiromi Kuronuma
Sota Maeda
Yoko Mori
Yûya Morita
Yuki Murano
Maoi Nakai
Sato Oonuki
Fumiko Sakamoto
Yayoi Sugi
Kenichi Takahashi
Yûdai Takayama
Keita Tanaka
Mitsuyo Tsukada
Taiki Ueda
Hiroshi Abe ..... Ryota Yokoyama
Yui Natsukawa ..... Yukari Yokoyama
You ..... Chinami Kataoka
Kazuya Takahashi ..... Nobuo Kataoka
Shohei Tanaka ..... Atsushi Yokoyama
Kirin Kiki ..... Toshiko Yokoyama
Yoshio Harada ..... Kyohei Yokoyama
Ryôga Hayashi ..... Mutsu Kataoka
Haruko Kato ..... Satsuki Kataoka
Hotaru Nomoto ..... Sushi deliverer
Susumu Terajima
Doona Bae ..... Nozomi
Arata ..... Junichi
Itsuji Itao ..... Hideo
Jô Odagiri ..... Air Doll Maker
Sumiko Fuji ..... Widow
Sei Ando ..... Peep-tom Student
Tasuku Emoto ..... Apple Woman
Mari Hoshino ..... Owner of Video Rental Shop
Ryô Iwamatsu ..... Moe's father
Tomomi Maruyama ..... Moe
Miu Naraki ..... Ex-substitute Teacher
Masaya Takahashi ..... Policeman
Susumu Terajima ..... Receptionist
Kimiko Yo

Synopsis:

Born in Tokyo in 1962, Hirokazu Kore-eda has quietly built himself a reputation as Japan's leading contemporary film-maker. Kore-Eda's work often explores his own experiences with themes of memory, loss and coming to terms with the process of death. His quietly naturalistic style marks an intersection of documentary and fictional narratives.
After Life (1998)
Every Monday morning, a team of advisors welcome in a facility a group of people that has just died with the mission of helping each one of them to select their best memory that will last for the eternity in the first three days. On Thursday, filmmakers begin to recreate the selected memory, and in the end of the week they screen it in a movie theater and he or she moves to Heaven.
Nobody Knows (2004)
In a small Tokyo apartment, 12-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and doesn't seem to be coming back.
Still Walking (2008)
This family drama, firmly in the Ozu tradition, is set over 24 hours of an anniversary gathering to commemorate a death. The three generations of the family exchange gossip and memories, grievances and resentments, without great drama, but all the more truthfully. The result is a film of great delicacy, warmth, humour and humanity that absorbs you totally into its world and resonates long after the moving final scenes.
Air Doll (2009)
A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

After Life (1998)
At a half-way station between Heaven and Earth, guides greet the newly dead. Over the next three days, they will help them sift through their memories to find the one defining, most blissful moment of their lives: an old woman remembers dancing for her older brother's friends as a child; a man recollects the breeze felt on a tram ride the day before summer vacation; a young girl wants to ride the Splash Mountain at Disneyland... The chosen moment is then recreated on film and re-lived for eternity. This humorous, passionate, thought-provoking and quietly moving film has received widespread critical acclaim.
Nobody Knows (2004)
Inspired by an infamous true story that made headlines in Japan in 1988, this tough yet tender film follows the lives of four children left to fend for themselves by their wayward mother. With engaging performances by a cast of non-professional child actors, Nobody Knows effectively couples documentary realism with a lightly poetic, child's-eye view of the world whilst gathering an impressive and unstoppable emotional momentum.
Still Walking (2008)
The Yokoyama family come together to celebrate the memory of their youngest son Junpei, who died fifteen years ago while rescuing a boy from drowning. Over the course of one summer day we follow the family, bound together by love as well as resentments and secrets, as new relatives become acquainted, old stories are retold, food prepared and an elegant graveside ritual takes place. It is with warmth and gentle humour that we follow the complex dynamics between the equally annoying, lovely and precious characters of the Yokoyama family, all masterfully drawn by Kore-Eda.
Air Doll (2009)
In a shabby Tokyo apartment, a life-size 'air doll' is the only companion of a lonely middle-aged man. He talks to her, bathes her and makes love to her every day after he returns home from work. This routine life is disrupted when fantasy turns into reality: the air doll suddenly comes to life. She sees a world waiting to be explored outside of the apartment and is fascinated by everything she sees and everyone she meets - but is unable to find an answer to what 'being alive' means. An erotic fantasy that explores the complexities of love and loss, joy and pain, fantasy and reality, this bittersweet love story examines the intricacies and frailties of human existence.

After Life (1998)
After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end; eternity follows. 22 dead arrive that week, assigned to three counselors and a trainee. One old man cannot find a memory, so he watches videotape of his life. Others pick their memory quickly, and the film crew gets right to work. The trainee, 18-year-old Shiori, helps a teenage girl choose a memory other than Disneyland. The youthful staff have a secret and feelings, too, which play out, especially Shiori's affection for her mentor, Mochizuki

Nobody Knows (2004)
Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers and have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. And so begins the children's odyssey, a journey nobody knows. Though engulfed by the cruel fate of abandonment, the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising and following their own set of rules. When they are forced to engage with the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses. Their innocent longing for their mother, their wary fascination toward the outside world, their anxiety over their increasingly desperate situation, their inarticulate cries, their kindness to each other, their determination to survive on wits and courage.

Still Walking (2008)
Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years ago. Although the roomy house is as comforting and unchanging as the mother's homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed.

Air Doll (2009)
A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

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