The acclaimed auteur urged for Japanese and Korean artists to show support for one another to overcome their countries' fraught political situation, while also praising his regional peers, such as China's Jia Zhangke and Korea's Lee Chang-dong.
Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda, winner of the 2018 Cannes Palme d'Or, took center stage at the Busan International Film Festival on Saturday and used the occasion to call for unity between nations as a trade war continues to rage between his native Japan and South Korea.
"I think if people work together and show their support for each other, they can overcome politics," said Kore-eda. "Through showing solidarity for each other we can solve and overcome these political problems. I believe in solidarity."—"When Busan was under political suppression, many international film people showed their support and I was one of them," Kore-eda said. "Now, after all those years of difficulty, Busan has been able to come this far.
The director was referring to BIFF’s much-publicized spat with Korean government departments following the screening in 2014 of the controversial documentary. The film tackled the government incompetence and malfeasance in the response to the Sewol Ferry that had claimed the lives of hundreds, including scores of school kids. The Busan government took umbrage with the criticism and BIFF faced funding cuts and criminal charges against top management.
Kore-eda is attending BIFF both to receive the festival's Asian Filmmaker of the Year award, and to present his latest drama During the press conference, he also revealed that he has felt pressure to keep up with his peers across the region throughout his career. "First, I want to make a good film," Kore-eda said when asked what motivated him. "But then Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lee Chang-dong, Jia Zhangke. I always think of contemporary Asian filmmakers, those colleagues, and I also receive inspiration from them. I don’t want to be ashamed of myself when I show my films to them."
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