aging and social abandonment

His films like 'Tokyo Story' and 'After Life' tenderly examine isolation, familial disconnection, and the dignity of aging through intimate human relationships.

She explores psychological fragmentation and social disconnection in works like 'You Were Never Really Here,' capturing the deterioration of the human spirit and abandonment.

Her film 'Nomadland' profoundly documents economic precarity, aging, and social invisibility through the lives of elderly American drifters seeking community.