Japan’s biggest film festival and Hirokazu Kore-eda haven’t always seen eye to eye.
“Oh, I thought they should get rid of it,” says the acclaimed director, speaking a week before the opening of this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) on Oct. 30. “I was always saying that.”
Some years back, he submitted a detailed proposal to the festival’s then-director, suggesting ways in which the event could be improved.