Variety caught up with Kamura before the film’s Toronto bow: Choosing what story to tell for a debut is hard. What drew you to the novel and wanting to adapt it for the screen?I was struggl...
Yet, he loved the script, and our first meeting went well enough so he ended up doing it ! I couldn’t believe it. As for the role of Soo-ha, it was really challenging. I needed a very specific p...
So because of how I looked, in France I was often considered “the Chinese kid”. And when I lived in Japan, later on, no Japanese would ever think of me as Japanese either. And I‘m ju...
How do you view the tension between an artist’s need to draw inspiration from others and the potential intrusion on personal intimacy or connection that can result from it? Yes, this ethical que...