Filmmaker Kotsuji Yohei On Self-Funding Tokyo Competition Title ‘A Foggy Paradise’ & The State Of Indie Filmmaking In Japan
deadline.comThis year’s Tokyo Film Festival (TIFF) has three Japanese filmmakers playing in competition — a haul that TIFF programming director Ichiyama Shozo told Deadline is a welcome high for the fest.
One of this year’s set is filmmaker Kotsuji Yohei, who screens his debut feature, A Foggy Paradise, an enigmatic pic shaped around two unrelated narratives that advance parallel to each other without specifying a setting, time, or destination.
The two loose stories depict ideas of life and death with a distinct sci-fi twist. On the ground here in Tokyo, the pic has been compared to the work of slow cinema masters like Ming-liang Tsai.
Kotsuji crafted the project over five years, during which he also worked as a teacher at a school for children with special needs.
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