Hirokazu Koreeda Opens Up About His Tender Coming-of-Age Drama ‘Look Back’: “I Was Tearful the Entire Time I Made This Film”
The film adapts Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga about two classmates whose rivalry turns into a partnership and later a falling-out over 13 years.
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Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda competes in Venice with ‘Look Back’, adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga over two girls who share a dream.
Look back has kidnapped us. Just like aliens do with the spaceship. A beam of light and away. In the Competition of Venice 83 finally comes our coup de coeur. Koreeda Hirokazu is not new to flashes of brilliant inspiration (After life, Nobody knows, Shoplifters). And this story of formation and growth of friendship of two [...] L'articolo Look Back, the cinema that becomes manga poetry: Koreeda kidnaps Venice with the history of Fujino and Kyomo…
Kore-eda Hirokazu on Adapting Fujimoto Tatsuki’s Manga for Venice Competition Film ‘Look Back’
“Look Back” is Kore-eda Hirokazu’s third time working from manga source material, but never before has the arthouse filmmaker drawn from such a commercially popular and internationally beloved work.A one-volume story from “Chainsaw Man” mangaka Fujimoto Tatsuki, “Look Back” follows the converging, then diverging, fates of two classmates, Fujino and Kyomoto, who achieve their professional […]
‘Look Back’ Review: Hirokazu Koreeda’s Second Effort of 2026 is a Tender Sensory Ode to Youth [A-] Venice
Back-to-back premieres at the world’s three major film festivals are rare feats; Krzysztof Kieślowski’s grand slam with the Three Colors trilogy remains one of the most memorable instances. More recently, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Kevin Costner, with the two Horizon chapters, managed a two-run. Now, barely four months after the debut of Sheep in a Box…
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