Miwa Nishikawa and Atsuhiro Yamashita, two directors talk about "Movies and Whiskey" Part 2 Love Cinema. Love Whiskey.

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Why do movies and whiskey go so well together? We wanted to find out more about the mysterious relationship between movies and whiskey, so we invited directors Miwa Nishikawa and Atsuhiro Yamashita to talk over a glass of whiskey. This time, following the first part, we will deliver the second part.

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Index

• If you want to drink together, choose Suntory Old or Kakubin.
• The taste of whiskey I drank in Korea
• I would like to take pictures of women drinking whiskey in their daily lives.
• If you were to make a whiskey movie now,

If you want to drink together, choose Suntory Old or Kakubin.

Q: If you two were to drink whiskey in your movie, in what situations would you serve it?

Nishikawa: If you look at it objectively, I feel like whiskey goes really well with Yamashita's movies.

Yamashita: Is that so? It is often said that this is a movie that has many scenes in bars. There are also many smoking scenes. That's what makes me angry (laughs). However, in `` Train Train '' (12), there are only cheap bars, and there may not be many bars that serve whiskey well. Oh, but I wonder if snacks are often available.

Nishikawa: I think scenes like those where everyone drinks Suntory Old are very suitable for Mr. Yamashita's movies.

Yamashita: Ah, the old one is great.

Q: Whiskey isn't just limited to high-quality alcohol.

Nishikawa: Yeah, I don't think so. I've been drinking it since I was a student. It's true that the scenery of whiskey in foreign movies is cool and I admire it, but I think we have a different way of interacting with whiskey than that. The scene of everyone buying ice and opening a bottle of whiskey has become a natural part of our lives, right?

Yamashita: If you're going to have fun drinking with everyone, I think it's a kakubin. When I'm alone at home, I usually drink beer or shochu, but when I go to a local filming location, I find it strangely fun to buy a small bottle of whiskey from a convenience store and sip it at the hotel. Make a highball and drink it by yourself.

Nishikawa: What kind of glass do you use in such cases?

Director Miwa Nishikawa

Yamashita: In a small beer glass at the hotel. That's why it disappears quickly (lol). When I was making independent films, when I would go to the countryside to film with my scriptwriter, Kosuke Mukai, and my cinematographer, Ryuto Kondo, the two of us would often sit on the tatami mats and drink whiskey after we got back to the hotel. At the time, I could hardly drink whiskey, and I was amazed at what these guys were doing when they were so tired, but now that I think about it, I feel like I was jealous of them. Mukai was a lighting engineer at the time, so when we went on set, I was the director and the two of us were part of the engineering team. There was a feeling of disconnection somewhere, and the two of them seemed to be having fun drinking at the inn, so I guess they must have been lonely.

Nishikawa: There is always a wall between the director and the technical staff. When you enter the set, there's a feeling that the director is telling you to do your best in solitude.

Yamashita: I wasn't the type of person who could say, "Let's all drink together." When I was asked to have a conversation on the theme of whiskey and movies, the scene that immediately came to mind was exactly that of those two people. It's more like sitting cross-legged on a tatami mat and drinking whiskey from a teacup than drinking at the bar counter.

Nishikawa: It's like a scene from a Yamashita-san movie.

The taste of whiskey I drank in Korea