Photo/Illutration Film director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Asahi Shimbun file photo)

Acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda will team with Oscar-winning “Parasite” star Song Kang-ho for his next movie, which will be his first South Korean production.

Kore-eda, who won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for “Shoplifters,” is currently writing a script for the film tentatively titled “Broker.”

Kore-eda on Aug. 26 said the story deals with an anonymous drop-off baby box for people who cannot raise a child for various reasons.

A South Korean company will financially back the production. Filming will start next year in South Korea.

Song, who plays a main character in “Parasite,” which won the Palme d’Or in 2019 and the Academy Award for best picture in 2020, will star in the new project.

Gang Dong-won and Bae Doona will also join the cast.

“I am writing the script right now, working with these three great actors in my mind,” Kore-eda said.

“I think I am thrilled with the project more than anyone else. I hope everyone shares this excitement that I feel once it’s done. I want to make this a thrilling, touching and painfully sad story,” he said.

Kore-eda in 2019 wrote and directed “The Truth,” a Japan-France collaboration.

The “Broker” will be another challenge for Kore-eda to work “away from my home country and native language,” he said.

“Beyond linguistic and cultural differences, what story can we tell and share with (people)? What is a film director to begin with? These are the questions in my mind that I hope to find answers to through the making of the film,” Kore-eda said.

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