This week is a special one in Japan, as this is the time that the whole nation revels in the annual short-lived beauty of the blossoming cherry trees. So while everyone is enchanted by these “Sakura” let’s return to one of the movies at this year’s Iffr which caused the most discussions amongst those who had seen it: Jo Odagiri’s debut film “Looking For Cherry Blossoms”.
When GhibliWorld’s Peter van der Lugt and I got to interview Jo Odagiri during the International Film Festival Rotterdam I was expecting to get some sense of deja-vu, for I had been talking with Yang Ik-June a day earlier and the situation seemed remarkably similar.
Here we had someone known as an actor, who had created his first long movie and had it premiere internationally at the Rotterdam festival.
Yet it’s hard to think of the two interviews being any more different,...
When GhibliWorld’s Peter van der Lugt and I got to interview Jo Odagiri during the International Film Festival Rotterdam I was expecting to get some sense of deja-vu, for I had been talking with Yang Ik-June a day earlier and the situation seemed remarkably similar.
Here we had someone known as an actor, who had created his first long movie and had it premiere internationally at the Rotterdam festival.
Yet it’s hard to think of the two interviews being any more different,...
- 3/30/2009
- by Ard Vijn
- Screen Anarchy
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