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Ryo Katayama was born in Sabae, Fukui Prefecture, in 1980. After graduating from college in 2003, Katayama started a career as an actor, mainly performing in independent films. In recent years, he starred in Yu Irie’s Memoirs of a Murderer (Jc 2017) and Masaharu Take’s The Ringside Story (2017) and played the lead in Motohiro Tajima’s Devote (2016). As a director, his short films received acclaim at numerous domestic film festivals, including the Special Jury Prize at Tachikawa Meigazadori Cinema Festival in 2018 for Meisoujyushi. Roar is his directorial debut feature.
On the occasion of Roar screening at Japan Cuts, we speak with him about his original style, loneliness, Fukui, the difficulty of Japanese people to express their feelings and many other topics.
Most family dramas that come out of Japan follow the style of Hirokazu Kore-eda. You did something different,...
Ryo Katayama was born in Sabae, Fukui Prefecture, in 1980. After graduating from college in 2003, Katayama started a career as an actor, mainly performing in independent films. In recent years, he starred in Yu Irie’s Memoirs of a Murderer (Jc 2017) and Masaharu Take’s The Ringside Story (2017) and played the lead in Motohiro Tajima’s Devote (2016). As a director, his short films received acclaim at numerous domestic film festivals, including the Special Jury Prize at Tachikawa Meigazadori Cinema Festival in 2018 for Meisoujyushi. Roar is his directorial debut feature.
On the occasion of Roar screening at Japan Cuts, we speak with him about his original style, loneliness, Fukui, the difficulty of Japanese people to express their feelings and many other topics.
Most family dramas that come out of Japan follow the style of Hirokazu Kore-eda. You did something different,...
- 7/27/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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