Odagiri Joe responded to health problems and revealed that he didn’t want to direct entertainment movies.

1905 movie network news On October 15th, Odagiri Joe, a famous Japanese actor, made her debut in the 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival, and was selected for the "Crouching Tiger" section of the film festival, which was the first screening of the film in China. The film stars Akira Emoto, Chuan Dao Lingyao, Nijiro Murakami, etc., and was also shortlisted for the Venice Day unit of the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

On the same day, director Odagiri Joe walked onto the red carpet of the film festival and appeared in a press conference to be interviewed by the media. At the meeting, Odagiri Joe gave an in-depth account of the creation of this film, and also responded to media reports about his poor health for the first time.

He clarified that the report was a bit exaggerated. "I did have a bad result when I went to the physical examination for the first time, but I went to the second precise examination. As a result, there was nothing wrong with my body. Please rest assured." At the same time, he also revealed that when he saw the inspection report for the first time, he began to think about his life path and reminded himself to hurry up and make a movie.

Co-directing has no influence on my creative style.　

I don’t want to make an entertaining movie.

"The Story of a Boatman" tells the story of the late Meiji period and the early Taisho period. Ten cities were a boatman whose family was settled by the river. His daily job was to row boats to transport people of all kinds across the river. In order to facilitate villagers’ travel, a bridge across the river is about to be completed. The villagers happily discussed the convenience after the completion of the bridge, and only ten cities had mixed feelings about it. One day, he saved an injured mysterious young woman from the river. Nowhere to go, she finally returned to her home in ten cities, and this encounter began to change the life of ten cities.

When talking about creative inspiration, Odagiri Joe said that the pace of Japanese society is very fast now, which led him to reflect on "Is it really good to live this life?"? If you can live a life free from money or time, will you be happier? " Out of this idea, he took Japan 150 years ago as the creative stage, focusing on ordinary people living in nature.

He started writing plays in 2010. During this period, he also appeared in many film and television works directed by different directors, including the latest collaboration with China director Lou Ye. He said that each director’s style is different and will not have a direct impact on his film creation, but he will learn from the strengths of these directors and add his own ideas.

At the beginning of his creation, he decided to shoot an anti-entertainment film. "Now the audience likes a style that is more entertaining and faster, and the scenes are constantly changing and they can’t get tired of watching it." "I don’t want to make an entertainment film, I want to make a quiet statement and show a calm and comfortable way with the cooperation of pictures and music." The pace of this film is slow, the scene changes less, and the duration is longer than that of ordinary movies. Odagiri Joe admits that in order not to let the audience get bored for a long time, he has put a lot of effort into the script, which is also a big challenge for him.

In the process of script creation, he will take himself as the prototype reference, and his lines will also have his inner projection. Referring to whether he agrees to build a bridge in the film, he thinks that when the bridge is built, the local cultural characteristics of boatmen rowing will disappear, so he falls into a kind of thinking about tradition and modern civilization. "Is the convenient age seen by everyone really good?" This is what I want to convey to the audience through movies. "

I searched twenty or thirty places for the perfect scene.

Excavated Du Kefeng’s photographic aesthetic skill.

The time background of the film was set at the end of Meiji, and Odagiri Joe explained that it was set in this era because it was a period when Japanese culture and western culture blended together, and it was also a period when Japan’s unique culture was preserved. At that time, the natural scenery and life maintained Japanese characteristics.

In order to find the ideal perfect location, Odagiri Joe found twenty or thirty places. "I hope it will be beautiful in summer, winter, morning and evening. Every frame in the film should exist like a painting. "Finally, he chose a mountain river area in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. In the end, the crew filmed there for 35 days in summer and one week in winter.

The visual picture of this film is very beautiful, which is inseparable from the credit of photography director Du Kefeng ().

Odagiri Joe said that he and Du Kefeng reached a consensus in their early years of cooperation, when Du Kefeng promised Odagiri Joe, "If you want to make a film, I would like to be your photographer". Odagiri Joe also thinks that Japanese photographers have become accustomed to Japanese scenery. If you use a foreign photographer like Du Kefeng, you can use a foreigner’s perspective to discover unique beauty that Japanese people can’t see.

He also described Du Kefeng as an "atmosphere maker" on the shooting scene, and he also existed like a team leader, giving great support to Japanese staff. "In the past, he liked to improvise in making movies, so that the actors could perform directly in front of the camera, but my film didn’t have any improvisation, so the shooting method was up to me." Odagiri Joe thought that as a director, he also fully tapped Du Kefeng’s skill in photography aesthetics, so that all the scenes were perfectly presented.

Self-directing and self-acting cannot take care of both.

Tadanobu Asano, Yuu Aoi, etc. are all reliable friends.

Akira Emoto is the leading actor in the film, and Odagiri Joe admits that he didn’t direct and act himself because he has self-esteem as an actor and wants to do his best as a director, so both sides can’t take care of it at the same time.

He revealed that in order to shape the role of boatman, Akira Emoto found a real boatman to learn and train boating before shooting, and finally reached his ideal figure state.

In addition to starring in the film, Tadanobu Asano, Yuu Aoi, Masatoshi Nagase, Isao Hashizume and other well-known actors joined the guest appearances. Odagiri Joe said that he wanted to gather some friends who he liked and trusted in this film. These actors didn’t ask for specific remuneration, but paid more attention to the quality of the film.

I want to continue to modify the finished film.

I will think about the script while performing in the future.

Odagiri Joe said that he never thought about the box office, and he couldn’t understand the fact that film creators pursued the box office. "I just want to make a movie about what I am interested in. If it is related to the box office, I have no motivation to shoot. If you consider the box office, then this movie can’t be made into a movie. "

Regarding whether he is worried that many people will only pay attention to the film for his face value or name, he said that he only hopes that more people will watch it. As for the purpose, it is everyone’s freedom. "If they find the film interesting after watching it, then I will be very happy."

In addition, Odagiri Joe responded that he would always keep a distance from the trend of the times and choose something different from popular culture to show his more possibilities. Just like making a movie, he wants to make a movie that no film company can make. "If I make a popular movie style and content, it doesn’t make sense. I hope the work conforms to my personality, and it is also something I think is worth doing. "

Now, he is quite satisfied with the completion of The Story of a Boatman. "Although the more times you watch it, the more you want to modify it, but there is no end to modifying the film."

Will you be a director again? Odagiri Joe didn’t give a clear answer. He said that he still wanted to shoot a movie with his original script, and he wouldn’t shoot it without inspiration. In the future, he will still work as an actor while thinking about the script.