香港亚洲电影节焦点导演：是枝裕和

http://bc.cinema.com.hk/adhoc/hkaff2006/director.html 兩年前的《誰知赤子心》，造就了康城有史以來最年輕的影帝；而背後的舵手，正是是枝裕和。 看是枝裕和的電影，就好像跟導演在凡塵裡走一圈，不徐不疾的認識了他關心的人和事。沒有硬銷人性的七情六慾，人生最戲劇性最盪氣廻腸的片段，就在最平常的日子裡。你和我，每天都活在自已的劇本裡，細味生死，領略得失，然後走一趟生命的旅程，反思生命的本質。 是枝裕和1962年生於日本東京，87年於早稻田大學文藝學科畢業後，加入「TV Man Union」，拍攝紀錄片為主，題材多具社會性，充滿人文主義。95年，他執導了首部電影《幻之光》，在威尼斯及芝加哥等影展上載譽而歸；之後執導了《下一站，天國》、《這麼近，那麼遠》；04年的《誰知赤子心》奪得康城影展最佳男主角獎；最新作品《花の武者》初次挑戰古裝片類型。 是次回顧展，將放映是枝裕和的全部長片和多齣早期最具代表性作品。 With NOBODY KNOWS (2004), Hirokazu Kore-eda shaped the cinematic work that bore the youngest “Best Actor” in Cannes Film Festival history. To watch Kore-eda's films is to tread along the valleys and vales of humanity. With a steadfast pace, we are acquainted with people and events that Kore-eda is concerned with. Never bombasting the audience with melodrama, his works testified that life's most vivid moments were discovered in the most ordinary of days. While we live our own lives, Kore-eda inspires us to savour the gains and losses in our own life journeys, and to reflect on the essence of life. Hirokazu Kore-eda (Born 1962, Tokyo). After graduating from Waseda University with a degree in Literature in 1987, he joined TV Man Union and has since directed many documentaries for television. His first feature MABOROSI won him the awards at Venice and Chicago. Followed by AFTER LIFE and DISTANCE, he continues to explore themes of memory/death and loss with the intersection of documentary and fictional narratives in his fourth feature NOBODY KNOWS. Kore-eda's latest film is HANA, which marks his first samurai drama. This retrospective will highlight all of Kore-eda's full length features as well as his earlier documentaries.