Starość, choroba i śmierć w filmach Naomi Kawase i Hirokazu Koreedy
Ageing, Illness, and Death in the Films of Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Kore-eda

Summary/Abstract: The article examines portrayals of aging, illness, and death in the films of Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Kore-eda in the context of the current debate on demographic changes in Japanese society. The author argues that the works of both filmmakers constitute a critical response to the narratives of self-sufficiency, agency, and productivity that dominate late-capitalist culture and marginalise the elderly and the sick. Regarding Kawase’s films, the author highlights intimate, autobiographical explorations of corporeality and the issue of mourning, while Kore-eda’s work is considered in the context of memory, loneliness, and the disintegration of traditional family structures. In the films of both Japanese directors, old age and illness are not portrayed solely as experiences of loss, but rather as moments that reveal the importance of empathy, relationality, and interdependence, i.e., values upon which an ethics of care is grounded.

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