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2013.06.16
Brillia Short Shorts Theatert: NEO JAPAN Program 2
Dir. Ikuma Horii (center) & actor Takuya Matsunaga
Today is the final day for this year's festival and it is little unfortunate that it is been slightly raining since this morning.
For this program, director Ikuma Horii and lead actor Takuya Matsunaga made an appearance.
Since dir. Horii's short "Sacrifice" deals with 311 disaster, the audience was keen on asking about how dir. Horii came about to make such a controversial film while other filmmakers tend to make human drama or such that do not deal with social and political issues, and also how he felt about the issues of nuclear power and its effect on humans.
Dir. Horii got an idea of making this piece when he heard about a news on a man who was fostering cows that have been affected by radioactivity. He also commented on the importance of expressing the issues like 311 disaster through visual images and was also wondering why, especially in the form of fiction, Japanese filmmakers tend not to depict such issues in their works.
Such meaningful communications between the audience and the filmmaker is a valuable experience, which the film festival can offer.