With Palme d'Or-winning Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film MONSTER arriving on our screens from 15 March, we are delighted to present a mini-season of his finest earlier works - with exclusive video introductions by Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp - across Sundays and Mondays in March. Check our website for full details.
If you had to choose the single best memory of your life, what would it be? In AFTER LIFE, Kore-eda poses the question in a profound and poetic fantasy, deemed by many as the director's masterpiece.
Jasper Sharp is an author, critic and filmmaker known for his work on Asian cinema and the co-founder (with Tom Mes) of the Japanese film website Midnight Eye. His books include The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (2004), joint-written with Tom Mes, Behind the Pink Curtain (2008) and The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema (2011). He co-directed The Creeping Garden (2014), a documentary about plasmodial slime moulds with Tim Grabham, and The J-Horror Virus (2023) with Sarah Appleton.
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