{"id":15575,"date":"2023-03-10T20:50:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=15575"},"modified":"2023-03-10T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:56:44","slug":"stonewalling-exclusive-interview-with-writers-directors-huanh-ji-and-ryuji-otsuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=15575","title":{"rendered":"Stonewalling : Exclusive Interview with Writers\/Directors Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1759973380962800523\" data-legacy-message-id=\"186cae771a6e538b\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":rd\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":rc\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"movieSynopsis\" class=\"movie_synopsis clamp clamp-6 js-clamp\" data-qa=\"movie-info-synopsis\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong> : 20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she\u2019s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she\u2019s had an abortion and instead returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic to try and figure out (if she can) what\u2019s next.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/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>:Chinese<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Director<\/strong>: Huanh Ji, Ryuji Otsuka<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Producer<\/strong>: Ryuji Otsuka<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Writer<\/strong>: Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Runtime<\/strong>:\u00a0<time datetime=\"P2h 28mM\">2h 28m<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><\/div>\n<div id=\":rc\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-15580\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling-696x454.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling-1068x697.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling-644x420.jpg 644w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Exclusive Interview with Writers\/Directors Huanh Ji and Ryuji Otsuka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Otsuka-san, you are originally from Tokyo, born in Japan, and you moved to China in 2005. What was the motivation to go to China? How did you meet Huang Ji-san and start working together?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RO: I went to Beijing in 2005, it was three years before the Olympics in Beijing. At that time, I knew China\u2019s economic development was so fast and that the changes were so vast, I wanted to experience it and observe it myself. At that time, I was already a documentary filmmaker in Japan, and brought all my equipment to China to film some things. When I was in Beijing, I went to the Beijing Film Academy. That\u2019s where I met Huang Ji.<\/p>\n<p>HJ: I had a friend who was planning to film a short and we needed a cinematographer. So I asked him to join and be the cinematographer.<\/p>\n<p>RO: She was a sophomore and was only 19 years old. I saw her documentary and really liked it. At that time, I couldn\u2019t speak Chinese. We had to communicate through writing kanji. We were curious about each other and found out that we had a lot in common, a lot of similar interests. So we decided to start making films together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: This film is the last of a trilogy, the previous ones were \u201cEgg and <span class=\"il\">Stone<\/span>\u201d and \u201cThe Foolish Bird.\u201d\u00a0 Otsuka-san was the producer and cinematographer for the first one, but you decided to co-direct the second and third films. How did you divide the co-directing work when you were on the set?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HJ: The first film is adapted from my own experiences.<\/p>\n<p>RO: And for the second film, \u201cThe Foolish Bird\u201d, we would interview other girls. So when we were writing the screenplay we would interview each girl together, and would write together.<\/p>\n<p>HJ: I have a very direct way of feeling things, and a very intuitive way to approach things. Otsuka would help me to sort out everything and analyze and understand my intuitive findings.<\/p>\n<p>RO: On the set, she is mainly the one who communicates with the actors. While she does that, I would observe and then decide how to film them, the compositions, and how the cinematography would work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: The one-child policy in China was in effect between 1979~2014, and ended 9 years ago. How much do you think that policy has affected Chinese society to this day?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HJ: The effect of the one-child policy this year is even more obvious than the time when we started filming. Most families in China still have only one child, and there are more and more people who aren\u2019t willing to marry. Therefore, the birth rate in China is dropping drastically. In 2019, a surrogate pregnancy was still something that people would not really accept. This year, people in China are starting to discuss surrogate pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What was amazing about this film is that, even though it\u2019s a narrative film, there\u2019s a documentary approach to some scenes which are very observational. How did you craft that approach?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RO: The most important part of this story is the 10-months\u2019 long pregnancy. Our actress, Honggui Yao, was not really pregnant, she was just acting. But during the 10 months, she was thinking continuously about the issue of being pregnant. We were curious about how this process changes her mentally and physically about the issue. We wouldn\u2019t be able to see all of the changes, so we decided to put the camera at a distance to observe her for 10 months. Towards the end, we actually didn\u2019t really know how the film should end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: You worked with Honggui Yao for \u201cEgg and <span class=\"il\">Stone<\/span>,\u201d \u201cThe Foolish Bird,\u201d and this one; her performances are phenomenal. What quality do you find in her performances that kept you casting her for all three films?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HJ: There are many qualities about her; for instance, when she\u2019s not talking, her face reflects a lot. When she was two years old, her parents left her and became migrant workers. She grew up living with her grandparents. There haven\u2019t been many people in her life that she can actually talk with. So she\u2019s used to expressing herself non-verbally, with, maybe, her eyes and some physical gestures. She has her own world and her own rhythm. It\u2019s not easily changed by external influences. She has a very strong sense of herself in her own world, and is not concerned with how she\u2019s rated by society.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-15578\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling1-1024x457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling1-1024x457.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling1-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling1-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling1-696x311.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling1-1068x477.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling1-941x420.jpg 941w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling1.jpg 1492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: When this happened in the United States, the guy got blamed for getting a college student pregnant because he didn\u2019t use a condom. But in this film, Lynn,\u00a0the lead character, has to deal with the pregnancy on her own both emotionally and physically. It seems like a very Chinese cultural thing, but the topic itself is very universal.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HJ: We didn\u2019t really think about how other countries perceive this issue, but when we were filming we took out the moral lens. Without a moral critique, what\u2019s actually happening can be visually accurate to audiences in different countries. In a very realistic way, what the boyfriend says and decides isn\u2019t actually problematic. He has his own reasons. So we didn\u2019t want to design the relationship between them from a moralistic perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: This film has been shown at the Tokyo Filmex and the Venice Film Festival. What was the reception and reaction to the film from two cultures that are different from China?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HJ: In Toronto, the audience was about half diaspora from China and half from other nationalities. I think their reactions were pretty similar, and they were moved by the film. After the screening, there was a woman from the audience who came up to us and shared her experience. She was a Chinese girl who had been taken to an orphanage by her parents when she was a small child, and the place of her birth is the same as the hometown of the actress, Honggui Yao. She was adopted by her parents from Toronto and grew up there. She has always been curious why her own biological parents gave birth to her but then gave her away to an orphanage. But she never had a chance to meet them, so her questions have never been answered. After watching \u201c<span class=\"il\">Stonewalling<\/span>\u201d she thought she could understand and imagine her biological mother.<\/p>\n<p>RO: In the case of Japan, one characteristic of Japanese audiences, is that they will not talk about their own feelings. They\u2019re very conservative. The issues brought up by \u201c<span class=\"il\">Stonewalling<\/span>\u201d aren\u2019t really talked about by the Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: You worked on this trilogy over the course of about 10 years. How do you think you have grown as filmmakers over the course of those years?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HJ: I wanted to hide [laughter].<\/p>\n<p>RO: In the 10 years, we were very clear about what each of us could and couldn\u2019t do. We would help each other in the places where the other could not do something, and we each took on the jobs that we were good at. So, for the two of us, it was not like one plus one equals two; it was more like one plus one is One. That kind of feeling. In our future work, we will be able to maintain this power balance.<\/p>\n<p>HJ: When I was writing \u201cEgg and <span class=\"il\">Stone<\/span>,\u201d the way I wrote male characters was based mainly on my own imagination. Then after co-directing \u201cThe Foolish Bird\u201d and \u201c<span class=\"il\">Stonewalling<\/span>,\u201d I think I became more and more understanding and generous toward males, and in this process, my idealization of female characters has gradually decreased. I could see the limitations of women and a more realistic view of them. I realized that as a female director, I don\u2019t have to create an active and positive cinematic female character. I just realized I talked about my own growth and not about my partner\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>RO: That\u2019s how we balance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-15579\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling2-1024x529.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling2-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling2-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling2-768x397.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling2-696x360.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling2-1068x552.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling2-813x420.jpg 813w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stonewalling2.jpg 1208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\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=\"ISpGCSwXOV0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stonewalling  Official USA Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ISpGCSwXOV0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis : 20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. 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