By Baek Byung-yeul
BUSAN — Kiyoshi Kurosawa, certainly one of Japan’s iconic administrators, praised the continued Busan Worldwide Movie Competition (BIFF) as a miniature illustration of the worldwide movie scene, highlighting his admiration for the Korean pageant that gives a novel expertise for the worldwide film business.
“I’ve visited Busan a number of occasions, however this yr is particular as I obtained the Asian Filmmaker of the 12 months Award on the BIFF,” Kurosawa stated throughout a press convention in Busan, Thursday.
“Once I attended the BIFF’s opening ceremony yesterday (to obtain this award), it was my first time experiencing such a grand venue and such a protracted crimson carpet. It was an extremely fulfilling second.”
He described the BIFF as showcasing varied aspects of the worldwide movie scene.
“On the opening ceremony’s after-party, I met creators from world wide. I met pals who got here from Japan, France, Canada and Hong Kong,” he stated. “It strengthened my view of the BIFF as a ‘microcosm of world cinema.’ I am amazed that only a 90-minute flight from Japan brings me to a spot the place international cinema converges.”
The 69-year-old director, who debuted in 1983 with “Kandagawa Pervert Wars,” gained worldwide approval for his 1997 crime thriller “Treatment.”
He gained the Un Sure Regard Jury Prize on the 2008 Cannes Movie Competition for “Tokyo Sonata” and obtained the Un Sure Regard Finest Director award at Cannes in 2015 for “Journey to the Shore.” In 2020, he was awarded the Silver Lion for Finest Course on the 77th Venice Worldwide Movie Competition for “Spouse of a Spy.”
At this yr’s BIFF, he showcases two new movies, “Serpent’s Path” and “Cloud,” to film followers.
Talking about his new works, he stated, “That is the primary time in my life that two of my new movies are being screened at a pageant. Will probably be an unforgettable reminiscence. Each are typical style movies and B-movies.”
Kurosawa expressed humility relating to his accolades.
“Though I have been making movies for 40 years and folks name me a veteran, I am nonetheless a director and not using a fastened model, at all times fascinated about how you can method my subsequent movie,” he stated.
“I am 69 years outdated and accomplished two movies this yr. I do not suppose there are numerous 69-year-old administrators who shoot two movies a yr. That makes me a bit totally different,” he added.
“Serpent’s Path” is a remake of his 1998 movie of the identical identify. “The self-remake wasn’t my initiative. 5 years in the past, a French manufacturing firm requested which of my movies I would prefer to remake, and with out hesitation, I selected ‘Serpent’s Path.’ That is how this venture started,” Kurosawa defined.
His different work, “Cloud,” is a thriller-action movie specializing in an atypical man (Masaki Suda) who navigates life by reselling objects on-line.
“I wished to make an genuine Japanese motion movie. Till now, Japanese motion movies have both been fantasies disconnected from actuality or yakuza tales about folks conversant in violence,” the director stated. “I wished to make a special sort of motion movie that entails atypical individuals who haven’t any connection to violence of their day by day lives.”