How was it to be on the other side of the table?Ī: It was pretty straightforward: I really wanted to adapt this story, so I asked her if it was okay. Of course, normally people come to you with that question, because they want to adapt one of your own manga. Q: To get the rights to make this film you had to meet the author Yuki Urushibara. If I make a film, I want it to be unlike anything and when you find an idea that might allow you to do that, like in the case of Bugmaster, it really motivates you. Also, I'm not interested in making films that someone else has already made. Every filmmaker probably wants to direct one - to be like Akira Kurosawa. As a Japanese, you grow up watching jidai geki. What was the interest for you in doing a period piece?Ī: I've always been interested in jidai geki and in making one. It would give me an opportunity to mix live action and computer graphics, to create a hybrid of the natural and the virtual, and hopefully achieve a harmonious mixture of the two. I'd read it and thought it would make an interesting film. However, I told Ogura that I did have the desire to adapt the manga Mushishi, which is also a kind of period piece.
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