Interviews

Our interviews with filmmakers, directors, actors, composers and much more besides from the world of Asian film…

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    The Possible Love interviews: Zo In-sung & Cho Yeo-jeong

    In the first of two interviews, we chat to the stars of Lee Chang-dong’s latest film…

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    Amie Song interview: “Cinema is great for ghosts and dreams and myths”

    The director of Gu Shi talks memory, isolation, and storytelling…

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    Advik Beni interview: “It’s a kind of mediation on how we deal...

    The director reflects on mixed media, mutability, and the potential of grief…

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    Stanley Kwan interview: “I’m happy that after 35 years people are still...

    With Center Stage returning to theatres in 4K, we look back at the genre-bending biopic with its director…

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    Eiji Uchida Interview: “I don’t like yakuza, but I like yakuza movies!”

    We talk about the special ways and the special casting with which The Specials was conceived…

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    Connor Sen Warnick interview: “You could remove the nostalgic iconography and still...

    New York native filmmaker talks on his reimagination of 1970s Chinatown, Characters Disappearing…

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    Karla Murthy interview: “I wanted people to know this person so intimately...

    The director discusses The Gas Station Attendant, her moving and deeply personal reflection on the immigrant experience…

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    Kim Dong-ho interview: “It’s about constant discovery and desire to watch new...

    A conversation on theatres, film festivals, and the meaning of cinema…

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    Jang Joon-hwan Interview: “If the original is a bizarre cocktail, Bugonia felt...

    With Save the Green Planet! released in 4K, we look back at the cult classic with its writer and director…

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    Kazuya Shiraishi Interview: “I don’t try to make dark films – they just...

    As full of surprises in conversation as career, Shiraishi talks all that makes him tick upon new theatrical and home releases of Bushido…

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    Bi Gan interview: “Our lives go through ups and downs, but films...

    We talk to the acclaimed director about his latest feature Resurrection…

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    Naoya Fujita interview: “I wanted it to be true to being that...

    The first-time feature director of Confetti talks ambiguity and discovery in youth…

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    Anocha Suwichakornpong: “I was thinking not only about the life cycle of...

    We talk to director Anocha Suwichakornpong on her ruminative retrospective coming to Metrograph…

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    Zhu Rikun interview: “Perhaps they think I’m a very dangerous person”

    A New York film festival organiser forced to cancel an event at the last minute…

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    Akira Emoto interview: “I hope more films are made about Japan from...

    A Japanese screen legend speaks with us about his English-language debut…

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    Yeo Siew Hua interview: “The history of cinema is sooooo obsessed with...

    We talk to the Stranger Eyes director about his film, his philosophy as a filmmaker, and his filmmaking as philosophy…

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    Hiroshi Okuyama interview: “I don’t want a child actor like a toy...

    We talk to the director about his acclaimed film My Sunshine and his varied career and influences across J-entertainment…