Since the 2009 release of Still Walking in the U.S., Hirokazu Kore-Eda has become perhaps the best-known contemporary Japanese director to western audiences. These earliest features (both of which premiered locally at the Wexner Center) include many of the themes (memory, loss) that are present in his recent films.

In After Life, the souls of the recently deceased must stop at a way station to select their most cherished memory before entering Heaven. (118 mins., 35mm) Maborsi follows a young widow who looks for answers after the apparent suicide of her husband, the father to her young son. (109 mins., 35mm)

Copresented by Ohio State's East Asian Studies Center.