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Final Thoughts

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In the concluding chapter of The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema, the author discusses some of the overarching themes examined in the book: trauma and survivor’s guilt, the nature of families (childhoods, parenting), changing notions of masculinity, various forms of play in the films, and a reexamination of the roles of the natural elements.

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    Linda C. Ehrlich

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Ehrlich, L.C. (2019). Final Thoughts. In: The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu. East Asian Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33051-4_17

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