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House RCA retrospective honours Japanese Palme d'Or winner
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/07/2018
» Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters will open in Thailand on Aug 2, two months after the film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Among modern Japanese filmmakers, Kore-eda has amassed the strongest following in Thailand, largely due to the fortunate fact that most of his films -- not all, mind you -- have opened commercially here since 2004. To pave the mood for Shoplifters, a gem of a family drama that finally brought the 56-year-old director one of the highest honours in international cinema, the Thai distribution Mongkol Major brings back seven films by the master in a Kore-eda Retrospective programme at House RCA, starting today.
Wishing upon a bullet train
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/03/2012
» Hirokazu Kore-eda's I Wish is a film about small happiness hidden under earth-shaking woes. An unexpected hand clasp on the shoulder, a swimming trunk in a wash basin, the sound of a clinking bell, the volcanic ash that falls like confetti _ the random joy of life slowly works its way into the heart of a young boy at the centre of this family drama, on limited release starting yesterday. Sweet but thankfully not saccharine, observant without being obsessive, I Wish has the delicate lightness and calm lucidity of all Kore-eda's films. And although this one won't move you to ponder the painful disintegration of family values the way the director's near-masterpiece Nobody Knows did in 2004, the uncoiling of revelations here is as gentle as it is refreshing.