Hirokazu Kore-Eda on Broker, His Heartfelt Film About Baby Traffickers

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As Broker hits UK cinemas, Hirokazu Kore-eda talks about black market baby adoptions, and why he made this film in Korea instead of his native Japan

The idea of collaboration had been broached as early as 2012 or 2013, says Kore-eda, when the actor and his“He has a real lightness to him, a sunny disposition,” the director says of the former. “But he also possesses this duality, as well. He can portray good and evil at the same time. And even if it’s a dramatic or serious thing, he would be able to create a moment of comedy.

Song won best actor at Cannes after the film’s premiere in 2022, making him the first Korean recipient of the award in history. Gang Dong-won, meanwhile, is exemplary as a fellow baby broker whose mother turned her back on him as a child. “He has broad shoulders,” says the director, “and there is a great sense of pathos and sadness you can see just by shooting his back.” The capabilities of Bae Doona, on the other hand, were known to Kore-eda already: he’d previously cast her as an inflatable sex doll with a human consciousness in 2009 oddity.

 

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