EGN NEWS DESK
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, cinema’s “grasp of horror” and recipient of the Busan International Film Festival’s Filmmaker of the Year Award, mentioned on Thursday he’d prefer to see extra Japanese artists discover style cinema.
Celebrated Asian filmmakers together with South Korea’s Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar-winning director of “Parasite,” admire 69-year-old Kurosawa, whose works are famend for his or her eager observations and psychological depth. Kurosawa acquired the BIFF Filmmaker of the Year award on Wednesday, becoming a member of earlier winners similar to famend Hong Kong actors Tony Leung and Chow Yun Fat.
Genre-bending director Bong mentioned in a video message he was a “long-time, diehard fan” of Kurosawa and recited a protracted checklist of movies he has admired for years. Film specialists say Bong’s work, significantly his 2003 crime thriller “Memories of Murder,” has been closely influenced by Kurosawa. Jason Bechervaise, a professor at Hanyang University in Seoul, cited Kurosawa’s 1997 horror film “Cure” for “its extraordinary atmospherics and depth.”
