Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-maker
Monster director Hirokazu Kore-eda: ‘The eyes of children offer a clearer view of the world than the eyes of adults’
‘I feel that it is possible to become Irish in a way it would never be possible to become German or to become Japanese’Oscars 2024 red carpet: Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie in Versace as classy black gowns win the night “I started thinking about Sakamoto’s piano music. I instinctively knew that this was how the film was going to start, with this black hole and his music. I couldn’t imagine it with any other music. During the edit I was using three of his earlier songs as temp music, and I also got permission to use those in the film.”
“Normally, I try to write the child characters as close as possible to the personalities of the child actors that are playing them. I use vocabulary that they are familiar with. And then I write it as we film, so they don’t get to see the description or plot in advance. I explain it to them as we go along. I didn’t think that would be the way to go and thought that would be difficult. So I worked with the children to create the characters together.
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