Watch Hirokazu Kore-eda Look Back at His Film Career
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda sits down with critic Lee Dong-jin to trace the arc of his film life—a career spanning documentaries, family dramas, and films that examine what it means to care for people who aren't connected by blood. A conversation about filmmaking craft that most English speakers miss because it's in Korean.
A director looking back
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda sits with critic Lee Dong-jin on Piarchia and traces his film life—from early documentaries through Shoplifters, Nobody Knows, After Life, and Broker. They talk craft, family stories, and how a body of work comes together over decades. Kore-eda is Japanese; this conversation is in Korean.
How to watch the full interview with English subtitles
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International film content in English
YouTube hosts thousands of film interviews, critic roundtables, and director discussions that never get English subtitles. Korean cinema coverage, Japanese director Q&As, Brazilian documentaries—most of it stays inaccessible to English speakers because YouTube's auto-generated translations are often incomplete or missing for non-English content.
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About this post
The YouTube video is embedded directly from the official source. The first 30 seconds of captions shown in the player can be displayed in English, Spanish (Español), or Portuguese (Português). All three caption tracks were transcribed and translated in Translator. They are not YouTube automatic captions. The rest of the episode is not published here—this post explains the workflow so you can translate the full video yourself.
Source: Lee Dong-jin's Piarchia (B tv 이동진의 파이아키아), hosted by critic Lee Dong-jin, featuring director Hirokazu Kore-eda (고레에다 히로카즈). Video is in Korean. Title: [인터뷰] 고레에다 히로카즈와 이동진이 함께 영화 인생의 궤적을 되짚다. Duration: 46:38.