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Kore-eda’s early documentaries reveal the director’s practice of patient observation, with topics ranging from “Living Science” lessons at a rural elementary school to medical malpractice. They set the stage for his feature films to follow.
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Ehrlich, L.C. (2019). Earth/The Documentary Impulse: Mō hitotsu no kyōiku—Ina shōgakkō harugumi no kiroku/ Lessons from a Calf—Record of the Spring Class at Ina Elementary School, 1991. In: The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu. East Asian Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33051-4_2
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