{"id":14046,"date":"2022-12-22T23:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T04:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2022-12-22T23:52:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T04:52:06","slug":"living-exclusive-interview-with-kazuo-ishiguro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14046","title":{"rendered":"Living :  Exclusive Interview with a Nobel Prize Winning Author and a Screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"movieSynopsis\" class=\"movie_synopsis clamp clamp-6 js-clamp\" data-qa=\"movie-info-synopsis\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> : LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Rating<\/strong>:\u00a0PG-13 (Smoking|Some Suggestive Material)<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Genre<\/strong>:\u00a0Drama<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Original Language<\/strong>:\u00a0English<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Director<\/strong>: Oliver Hermanus<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Producer<\/strong>: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Writer<\/strong>: Kazuo Ishiguro<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong>:\u00a0<time datetime=\"Dec 23, 2022\">Dec 23, 2022<\/time> \u00a0Limited<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Runtime<\/strong>:\u00a0<time datetime=\"P1h 42mM\">1h 42m<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Distributor<\/strong>:\u00a0Sony Pictures Classics<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14047\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kazuo-Ishiguro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kazuo-Ishiguro.jpg 830w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kazuo-Ishiguro-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kazuo-Ishiguro-768x892.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kazuo-Ishiguro-696x808.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kazuo-Ishiguro-362x420.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/div>\n<pre data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\">Photo by Npt - \u00a9\u00a0Andrew Testa<\/pre>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Exclusive Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: The original Akira Kurosawa\u2019s film, \u201cIkiru\u201d had such impact on your life. What kind of element stood out for you that made you decide to tackle the screenplay?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KI: I think all the things that struck me the first time I saw this \u2014 and I think I must have been very young. I think I was about eleven or twelve, something like that. I think there are still the things that I find most important about the film. Because often you see a film when you\u2019re young and then you see it again many years later, it feels like a different movie and you think, \u201cWhy did I think this?\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Ikiru<\/strong>\u201d is an interesting case because I almost \u201cgot\u201d it as a child. I think what was important to me was, yes I was an English boy growing up in England with very little contact with Japanese culture. I was going to school every day on the train \u2014 I had something like a twenty-minute train journey \u2014 to my school. I would travel every morning with these English commuters who had bowler hats and umbrellas, and they were on their way into London. (My school was closer.)<\/p>\n<p>When I saw \u201c<strong>Ikiru<\/strong>\u201d, I made an equation with the Japanese bureaucrats I saw there, and these kinds of English \u2014 in those days you considered them \u201cEnglish gentlemen\u201d \u2014 they were trying to be English gentlemen \u2014 going in to work on the commuter line. I suppose I thought when I finished my schooling, the natural thing was that I would go from being a boy in a school uniform to one of these people. There was a kind of \u2014 both sides, the English side and the Japanese side made quite an impact on me, although it was about a much older person. I somehow thought this would say something about the life I would have.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And what I found very inspirational was that it suggested that, even if you don\u2019t become some kind of \u201cstar\u201d or do something fantastic or become very rich, it doesn\u2019t matter. You can be somebody quite humble, like Watanabe-san in \u201c<strong>Ikiru<\/strong>\u201d, or Mr Williams in our film. You can still make an effort \u2014 you have to still make an effort. If you make an effort, then your life could actually become full. So that was an upright position for me as a young person. I never dreamt that I\u2019d be allowed to do the things I\u2019ve been allowed to do. I thought I would have a life rather like Mr Williams.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: When they announced the remaking of \u201cIkiru\u201d, some of the bureaucratic elements and politeness could transition to the English setting. Is this something that you cherished from the original film that you wanted to adapt into this film?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KI: Yes, I think you\u2019re right that there\u2019s a certain Japanese manner that you see in \u201c<strong>Ikiru<\/strong>\u201d which transfers quite naturally into the kind of manners that English people liked to display at that time in England. As I was growing up in England, those kinds of manners started to change quite rapidly, so that by the time I was a university student, they were deeply unfashionable. But certainly for the generation the same age as my parents, the English people of my parents\u2019 generation, they thought that was the correct way to behave, even under great pressure. And it wasn\u2019t just manners, but it was even the way of putting people down, or influencing your position in society. It should be done in a certain kind of way. I think there were, perhaps, parallels between Japan and England.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But I would say that there was an important difference, for me. In \u201c<strong>Ikiru<\/strong>\u201d, [Akira] Kurosawa and his writers, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni, wrote their movie in 1949, 1950 \u2014 some time like this. [The movie was released in 1952.] At that point, they are right to be quite pessimistic about what this bureaucracy, what ordinary bureaucrats like that can achieve. \u00a0Japan has gone through this terrible section of its history \u2014 this militaristic rule, this terrible war, the atomic bombs, American occupation. Kurosawa and his team had no idea that Japan would become so prosperous in a few years\u2019 time. And not only that, [that] Japan would become this very solid, liberal democracy. They had no idea. So I think Kurosawa\u2019s film is quite pessimistic. It seems to me that there\u2019s a feeling that, never mind the little spark that you see from Watanabe, it will all be crushed by the weight of bureaucracy and just the huge burden of trying to rebuild Japan.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For us today, we have the benefit of hindsight and we know that Japan rebuilt magnificently. And I feel that Britain also rebuilt brilliantly after the Second World War. You know, Britain was also smashed to pieces. It had no money, people lost all the people they loved in the war. But they rebuilt a new society, a fairer society, with the welfare system that didn\u2019t exist before.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I think ordinary people like Mr Williams succeeded. It was difficult, but they succeeded. I think we have that knowledge. I think Kurosawa\u2019s team did, and our society. For me, there\u2019s a big difference in the term. Our film, I think, is more optimistic and we present a younger generation. So we can hope.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14048\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bill-Nighy-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bill-Nighy-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bill-Nighy-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bill-Nighy-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bill-Nighy-696x472.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bill-Nighy-1068x724.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bill-Nighy-620x420.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Bill-Nighy.jpg 1402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: In the film, Bill Nighy sings a traditional Scottish song called \u00a0\u201cThe Rowan Tree\u201d. In Kurosawa\u2019s film, the song is \u201cGondola no Uta\u201d. How did you come to select those songs and what was the reason for that?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KI: Well, as much as I respect Kurosawa, as much as I love \u201c<strong>Ikiru<\/strong>\u201d, the original film, there were certain aspects of it I found too direct. Often, the theme was being expressed too directly, with the voiceover at the beginning and so on. One of these aspects I was less fond of was the choice of that song, although the final scene of the Kurosawa film when he is singing, the singing is one of the greatest scenes in cinema history, I would prefer that the actual words of the song not refer directly to the story \u2014 you know, that life is short, and so on.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I felt it was more important that the song that we chose reflected the fact that he had a wife who he had loved and that there was a time when he wasn\u2019t like this. Before his wife died, perhaps he was much more open, he was living much more fully. And I thought this was a very important part of this character. I wanted, with this choice of song, to suggest that he was deeply bereaved and that somewhere there was a memory of her when he was much more alive before he became \u201cMr Zombie\u201d. So I wanted the song to connect back to his Scottish wife.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He sings the song twice. When he sings it at the end of the swing, it\u2019s almost like he\u2019s triumphant because he\u2019s achieved the park, but also, he wants to be with his wife at that special moment. So I thought this would be an important moment. And my own wife is Scottish, and this is a song I learned from her. It\u2019s not a song that I learned from records. This is a song that she learned from her grandmother and she often sings. So for me, it\u2019s like a song that\u2019s handed down through people, not a song that became a hit. I thought this would be good.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I also heard Bill Nighy singing a Scottish song in a movie a few years ago, \u201c<strong>Their Finest<\/strong>\u201d [dir. Lone Scherfig, 2016]. He sings a Scottish song called \u201cThe Wild Mountain Thyme\u201d in that movie, and I thought, Yeah, Bill Nighy singing Scottish is rather good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Thank you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"OVo5kLt_-BU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVING | Official Trailer (2022)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OVo5kLt_-BU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis : LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. 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