karma

His films explore how past actions and moral choices ripple through families and communities across time, particularly in works like 'Like Father, Like Son' and 'Shoplifters'.

He examines fate, causality, and the consequences of chance encounters and decisions in films like 'In the Mood for Love' and 'Chungking Express', where characters are bound by invisible threads of cause and effect.

His interconnected narratives in films like 'Babel' and 'Biutiful' demonstrate how individual actions create cascading consequences affecting strangers across cultures and continents.