Busan Asian Filmmaker Of The Year Kiyoshi Kurosawa On Why He Remade ‘Serpent’s Path’, Casting Masaki Suda in ‘Cloud’ & Japan’s New Talent Wave
deadline.comJapanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this year’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year at Busan International Film Festival, talked about the two films he has playing here, as well as the recent wave of young talent emerging in Japan, during a press event on the second day of the festival.
Mentioning that he turns 69 years old this year, Kurosawa said he decided to churn out two films in a short space of time – Cloud, starring Masaki Suda as a factory worker with a dubious online side hustle, and Serpent’s Path 2024, a French-language remake of his 1998 Japanese film of the same name.
Both films are screening as Galas in Busan after Cloud premiered at Venice film festival and Serpent’s Path in San Sebastian. “It wasn’t my intention, but when I received an invitation from a French producer to remake one of my films in France, I chose Serpent’s Path without hesitation,” Kurosawa explained. “The original was written by Hiroshi Takahashi, and it was very well-written and unique.
When I made the film, I felt it had a lot of influence from the scriptwriter and in some ways didn’t feel like my film. So, my desire was to remake it with my own style.” In the Japanese version, Serpent’s Path tells the story of a man who enlists a friend to help him identify and exact revenge upon his daughter’s murderer.
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