For fans of Hirokazu Kore-eda: what to watch, read & play next

A widowed mother's sacrifices go unacknowledged as her children pursue comfort over gratitude — quietly devastating.

A boy escapes an abusive home through the focused discipline of shogi, finding dignity in a small, fierce passion.

A tender first love between two young people navigating loss and the silences that grow between separated hearts.

Elderly parents make a long journey to see children too busy to truly receive them — a masterwork of gentle devastation.

Two childhood sweethearts drift apart across years, their paths never crossing again — a meditation on what time takes.

A wife holds a wartime family together after her husband's arrest, resilience measured in daily domestic endurance.

A bullied young man rebuilds himself through an unusual job, quietly confronting the wounds his past left behind.

Two sisters visit their estranged dying father for a last photograph — family bonds tested by long absence and grief.

A boy waits for his late mother's promised return in the rainy season, belief holding grief at a child's tender distance.

A boy becomes sole carer for his baby brother after their mother dies, childhood cut short by sudden responsibility.

A village girl moves to Tokyo after her father vanishes, her optimism tested by the weight of supporting herself alone.

A housewife uncovers the secret killing of a child, the horror inseparable from the ordinary domestic world around it.

A long marriage that feels settled is quietly undone when one partner's hidden life comes to the surface.

A school teacher raises his daughter alone amid a sprawling, unconventional family stitched together by circumstance.

A family tries to regroup after a father's sudden death, only to face another shock before grief has even settled.

A young cook fights to preserve an old Tokyo restaurant as the neighbourhood itself begins to disappear around him.

A close-knit rural village hides violent secrets beneath summer rituals — community as both shelter and trap.

The same small village revisited, secrets unravelling further as trust inside a tight community fractures completely.

A 1950s Tokyo murder investigation where an ex-cop turned private detective pursues a case entangled with personal loss.

A boy's quiet summer in an isolated village darkens as the community's buried violence surfaces around him.

Trust inside a small Japanese village is pushed to its limit as long-hidden truths about a violent past emerge.

Village friendships fray against the backdrop of a summer festival tied to a tragedy no one will name openly.

An investigator arrives in a secretive rural village and finds the community's calm surface masking something sinister.

A boy moves to a rural Japanese village for the summer and discovers its tight community guards a terrifying secret.

A widower tries to rebuild his life after losing his wife to cancer, his family scattered by grief and time.

A daughter and her mother move to a quiet Tokyo neighbourhood to grieve a father's shocking, ambiguous death together.

A woman raises her daughter alone after her husband's disappearance, drawn to a seaside town holding buried memories.

A woman pursues a man who abandoned her without explanation, love and unanswered questions pulling her across distance.

Three men race toward collision, each carrying a private reckoning with revenge, pride, and a past unsettled debt.

A boy faces the painful work of making amends to a deaf classmate he once bullied, shame slowly turning to connection.

An adopted daughter in Kyoto discovers a twin raised separately, identity and belonging quietly pulling apart.

Family bonds are tested when a figure from a boy's past appears, loyalty and truth placed under careful pressure.