After all, cinema has been around for more than a century. There are many great masters. I feel like doing a very classical movie now, to challenge the giants. |
are beautiful. Mine are not. |
I want the spectators to feel like they are in another dimension of reality. I don't want my audience to understand every detail, |
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake. |
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is. |
The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague. |