MUBI brings you a great new film every day.  Start your 7-day free trial today!
Watch a new film every day for $4.99.
Try MUBI for FREE.
Learn More
 

Hana

Hana yori mo naho

Japan

2006

127 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

   |   

DIR Hirokazu Kore-eda

EXEC Julie K. Fujishima

PROD Nozomu Enoki, Shiho Sato

DP Yutaka Yamasaki

CAST Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Arata Furuta, Jun Kunimura, Tadanobu Asano, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryo Kase, Katsuo Nakamura, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Tabata, Renji Ishibashi, Ryûhei Ueshima

ED Hirokazu Kore-eda

PROD DES Masao Baba, Toshihiro Isomi

SOUND Yutaka Tsurumaki

Toronto (Special Presentations), San Sebastián (Competition), São Paulo, London (World Cinema), Vancouver (Dragons & Tigers), San Francisco (World Cinema), Karlovy Vary (Horizons), Rotterdam (Kings & Aces)

Synopsis

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn’t an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation. –IMDb

Director

Original

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at TV Man Union. Sneaked off set to film Lessons from a Calf (1991). His first feature, Maboroshi no hikari (1995), based on a Teru Miyamoto novel and drawn from his own experiences whilst filming August Without Him (1994), won jury prizes at Venice and Chicago. The main themes of his oeuvre include memory and loss, death and loss, and the intersection of documentary and fictional narratives. —IMDb 

Wall

Displaying 1 wall posts.
see all
Picture of Linda Crisan

Linda Crisan

8Apr10

The Japan Times knows why this film failed to capture my imagination: there wasn't a Japanese Bill Murray to portray the main character.

0023am and 2 others like this

S.Orhan Aydilek, Tristan P. Teshigahara

Related Films

Fans

Displaying 5 of 92 fans.
see all
Picture of Hugh Lawson

Hugh Lawson

Picture of Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberl​y

Picture of Corriel

Corriel

Picture of zeri-67

zeri-67

Picture of MilaHolimion

MilaHol​imion

Articles

Our roundup of essays and articles on this film.

TIFF Report: HANA Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film, HANA, may have all of the usual trappings that one associates with the samurai genre, and yet it thoroughly, and enjoyably, subverts them time and again. Set in the 18th
→ read on Twitchfilm.com

TIFF Report: HANA Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film, HANA, may have all of the usual trappings that one associates with the samurai genre, and yet it thoroughly, and enjoyably, subverts them time and again. Set in the 18th
→ read on Twitchfilm.net

Lists

Displaying 5 of 18 lists.
see all

Reviews

No reviews yet — Write the first

Forum

Displaying 0 discussion topics.
start the first topic