“Why is all this happening?”
“Cause you stay cool and don’t say anything.”
In an interview from 2007 when he was invited to the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film Japanese, director Hiroyuki Sanako, better known as Sabu, talked about his approach to both filmmaking and writing. As reality is based on logic and rules agreed upon by society, changing the perspective often reveals the rules to be rather arbitrary. Coming up with the unusual situations, his characters, often imprisoned by reality and the conventions it is defined by, are therefore equal to show the fragility of everyday life and its rules.
“Mr Long” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
In the past, the concept has taken a rather absurd turn for his characters, often played by actor Tsutsumi Shin’ichi. Whether it is the postman finding rather gruesome items in the mail or the salary man waking...
“Cause you stay cool and don’t say anything.”
In an interview from 2007 when he was invited to the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film Japanese, director Hiroyuki Sanako, better known as Sabu, talked about his approach to both filmmaking and writing. As reality is based on logic and rules agreed upon by society, changing the perspective often reveals the rules to be rather arbitrary. Coming up with the unusual situations, his characters, often imprisoned by reality and the conventions it is defined by, are therefore equal to show the fragility of everyday life and its rules.
“Mr Long” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
In the past, the concept has taken a rather absurd turn for his characters, often played by actor Tsutsumi Shin’ichi. Whether it is the postman finding rather gruesome items in the mail or the salary man waking...
- 11/15/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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