generational cycles

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Tokyo Story' intimately examine how family trauma and values transmit across generations within interconnected households.

Works such as 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' explore how parental damage and violence perpetuate destructively through children.

His long-form narratives in '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' and 'Graduation' reveal how political and personal constraints shape successive generations' choices and moral compromises.