...[Violent Cop] was shot a long time ago, when I didn`t knew how to make a film. At least now, I am beginning to grasp what filmmaking is all about, gradually, so I watched it again the other day on video, so that I could comment on it during the intervi...
The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film [Takeshis` (2005)], I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that ...
When I write a script, I have the entire film in my head, so when we start shooting, I just do it. Im more interested in the editing process, so I tend to shoot in a hurry. Maybe you don`t always have enough footage, but how you play around with it, is wh...
Comedians are supposed to make people laugh by doing things they`re not allowed to do. Once they start taking about family values and humanity, they`re not comedians anymore.