"Winter's Summer" Director Shinichiro Kanagawa Scenario Grand Prize Film Adaptation Project Challenged by CM Director [Director's Interview Vol.313]

Don't explain your intentions

Q: What were your impressions after reading the script?

Kanagawa: It was a coming-of-age movie about high school girls, but I hadn't seen many movies in that genre, nor had I ever shot a commercial for it. I thought that being in a commercial would definitely be a job that would never come to me, but I thought it would be a good experience and it would be fun to portray a world that I had never done before.

Q: Did a picture come to mind while you were reading it?

Kanagawa: It wasn't so much that the idea suddenly came to me, but rather that I started thinking about how to turn this script into entertainment. I thought it would be nice to have foreshadowing that would draw the audience's interest, and I was thinking about how to incorporate it into the story. That was the last thing I thought about painting.

Q: Was the script revised after that?

Kanagawa: That's right. I have revised it about 2-3 times. However, since we won the Grand Prix with the original content, we can't make any major changes, but when I told Mr. Enyama what I had in mind, he said, ``Is this what Kanagawa-kun wants to do?'' He wrote the script well. It reflected.

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Q: I feel like there are a lot of metaphors in your work. It seemed like you intentionally left room for the audience to think about it, but did you discuss that with Mr. Enyama?

Kanagawa: There were some parts that I didn't understand in the first draft, so I finally understood them after Mr. Enyama explained his intentions. However, I thought it would be more effective to leave it as a metaphor or foreshadowing without explaining it when making it into a movie. By doing so, I think we can create something that people want to watch over and over again, and that they want to tell people about.

Q: Some people who have seen the movie seem to think that Noel doesn't exist.

Kanagawa: I'm not saying for sure that it doesn't exist, but it's interesting that you feel that way. People who wonder, ``Maybe it doesn't exist?'' will find it interesting in a different way. I also make it that way.

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