Not long ago, director Yoshida Keisuke was little known both in Japan and abroad, though he scored the occasional festival invitation with films like the 2008 quirky comedy “Café Isobe” and the 201…
Variety“But when was announced I didn’t quite understand why they’d done it. At least I’ll be able to see the films together with an audience,” he says with a laugh.
In his more recent work, however, Yoshida has been channeling more of his own environment. “I grew up in a slum area, so I was familiar with violence,” he says. And that violence has since appeared in his films, with “Himeanole,” whose average-guy hero battles a crazed serial killer, being a turning point.
Another reason why Yoshida sticks mainly to original material: “I don’t have the confidence to make something based on what other people think is interesting,” he says. “I have to make what I think is interesting.” The most recent example is “Intolerance.”
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