mortality and aging

His films like 'Tokyo Story' and 'After Life' intimately explore aging, memory, and the acceptance of mortality through deeply humanistic narratives.

Works such as 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'A Ghost Story' examine psychological decay, trauma's passage through time, and confrontations with mortality.

His films like '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' and 'Beyond the Hills' confront aging, regret, and the weight of accumulated life experiences with unflinching realism.