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Busan Asian Filmmaker Of The Year Kiyoshi Kurosawa On Why He Remade ‘Serpent’s Path’, Casting Masaki Suda in ‘Cloud’ & Japan’s New Talent Wave
Veteran Japanese filmmaker, who is Busan's Asian Filmmaker Of The Year, also talked about casting Masaki Suda in Cloud and Japan's new talent wave.
Kurosawa said that he enjoyed taking the story out of its original yakuza (Japanese gangster) setting and giving it a fresh spin in the French version in which the bad guys are part of a cult. “Many Japanese genre films don’t reflect reality – they have stereotypical serial killers or yakuza as protagonists – but I wanted to create a character who was somebody you could meet in real life,” Kurosawa explained. For several years, he was one of a quartet of Japanese filmmakers known as the “Four Ks” (also including Hirokazu Kore-eda, Takeshi Kitano and Naomi Kawase) who dominated the international festival circuit.
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