"Since I was a child, I always wanted to devote my life to film as my father did," Kenta Fukasaku said during a recent chat in which his late, great role model, the charismatic movie director Kinji Fukasaku, often figured.
Yet, despite having made dozens of movies himself, this famous son — whose name intentionally combines those of the screen stars Ken Takakura and Bunta Sugawara (whose recent deaths rocked the nation) — is currently hard at work on a stage production of "The Swan," an absurdist 1993 work by U.S. playwright Elizabeth Egloff that has its Japan premiere this month.
And indeed, since his theater debut directing French writer Robert Tomas' mystery "The Trap" in 2010, 42-year-old Fukasaku has been in great demand to do stage work between movie-making.