Quotes About Hirokazu

My mother used to work in a bank in Tokyo. It was a busy district, and after work, she used to go and watch films.

With 'Nobody Knows,' I consciously set out to make a fiction film, which is a different approach from 'Distance,' but I still applied a lot of the things I learned from making 'Distance': for example, how to use the camera in relation to the children and how to create the right atmosphere on set.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.