Aki Kaurismäki

脚本, 監督, プロデューサー, 編集者, 俳優, 作曲者

1957年4月4日 (69年)
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish: [ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki]; born April 4,1957; Orimattila) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and actor. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as for the mockumentary Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He is described as Finland's best-known film director. He is the younger brother of director and screenwriter Mika Kaurismäki.

After graduating in media studies from the University of Tampere, Kaurismäki worked as a bricklayer, postman, and dish-washer, long before pursuing his interest in cinema, first as a critic, and later as a screenwriter & director. He started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki. He played the main role in Mika's film The Liar (1981). Together they founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions and later the Midnight Sun Film Festival. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment (1983), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel set in modern Helsinki. He gained worldwide attention with Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989).

Kaurismäki's film Ariel (1988) was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Prix FIPRESCI. Kaurismäki's most acclaimed film has been The Man Without a Past, which won the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003. However, Kaurismäki refused to attend the Oscar ceremony, asserting that he did not feel like partying in a country that was in a state of war. Kaurismäki's next film, Lights in the Dusk, was also chosen to be Finland's nominee for best foreign-language film, but Kaurismäki again boycotted the awards and refused the nomination, as a protest against U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign policy. In 2002 Kaurismäki also boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival in a show of solidarity with the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who was not given a US visa in time for the festival. Kaurismäki's 2017 film The Other Side of Hope won the Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At the same festival he also announced that it would be his last film, although the retirement was short-lived as he began filming Fallen Leaves in 2022, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.

次として知られている:

  • 枯れ葉
    枯れ葉2023
  • 過去のない男
    過去のない男2002
  • ル・アーヴルの靴みがき
    ル・アーヴルの靴みがき2011
  • マッチ工場の少女
    マッチ工場の少女1990
  • 希望のかなた
    希望のかなた2017
  • 浮き雲
    浮き雲1996
  • コントラクト・キラー
    コントラクト・キラー1990
  • 街のあかり
    街のあかり2006
  • ラヴィ・ド・ボエーム
    ラヴィ・ド・ボエーム1992
  • 真夜中の虹
    真夜中の虹1988
  • レニングラード・カウボーイズ・ゴー・アメリカ
    レニングラード・カウボーイズ・ゴー・アメリカ1989
  • パラダイスの夕暮れ
    パラダイスの夕暮れ1986
  • 白い花びら
    白い花びら1999
  • 愛しのタチアナ
    愛しのタチアナ1994
  • カラマリ・ユニオン
    カラマリ・ユニオン1985
  • 10ミニッツ・オールダー 人生のメビウス
    10ミニッツ・オールダー 人生のメビウス2002
  • ハムレット・ゴーズ・ビジネス
    ハムレット・ゴーズ・ビジネス1987
  • レニングラード・カウボーイズ、モーゼに会う
    レニングラード・カウボーイズ、モーゼに会う1994
  • それぞれのシネマ
    それぞれのシネマ2007
  • 罪と罰
    罪と罰1983

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