“In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.” WritingTryingKindCharacterStoriesAbleMovingOrderViewsNeededDistanceIronyScreenplaysSentimentalityDistance Myself Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.” KnowsTryingBelieveMadeAttentionAudiencePeriodsDramaHusbandElementsSuicideDon't BelieveReactionsContemporaryRepresentatives Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
