Kiyoshi Kurosawa
“I never intentionally make ambiguous that which should be clear. Certainly, my understanding of film is that the story is an element of film, but it’s very much about portraying a reality, a world that exists beyond the screen. I think you would have to agree that our encounters with reality can sometimes be clear and unambiguous, but more often they are confoundingly complex, and the meaning of events that unfold before us can often elude comprehension forever. So, when I make my films, I am not the all-seeing, omniscient God explaining to you in the audience what has happened and why. You should just think of my movies as a string of scenes of pondering what I would do and how I would face these events unfolding before my eyes. The reality that I find incomprehensible and confounding, I present it exactly to you how I encounter it myself. That’s the approach I take to moviemaking.”
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa © by Xavier Lambours, 2014.