Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu, whose films are known for their natural performances from child actors, said there is one thing he has decided never to put on screen: a child crying. “It’s not that I can’t, or that it’s difficult. I don’t shoot it,” the Japanese director said at an In Conversation event at the […]
Kore-eda Hirokazu Explains Why He Never Films Children Crying – and What Ken Loach and Hou Hsiao-hsien Taught Him
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