The economic conditions are tough, because the theater hardly functions as a market these days, but I’m not ready to give up … I want to create the sort of film that a young boy sees in a theater and then goes home from so amazed he’s temporarily rendered speechless; he doesn’t say anything to anyone out of fear that he’ll dilute the experience. I

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I felt so liberated and so pleased when I found out that what flowed inside me was connected to the broadleaf evergreen forest. My culture went far beyond the idiotic Japanese who started the war, beyond Hideyoshi Toyotomi who invaded Korea, and beyond The Tale of Genji that I detested. It was then that I realized how valuable plants are and how

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