Hirokazu Kore-eda

What makes a Hirokazu Kore-eda film a Hirokazu Kore-eda film

Across 13 films, they run much less energy, somewhat less violence and somewhat more intimacy than films in general. Their films resemble each other far more than any 13 films picked at random would, which is what makes one recognisable before anybody says who directed it.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.