Asano Tadanobu's first work as a director. Tori is an omnibus-film made up of five short films which, according to Asano, are visualisations of his dreams. The film distributor and Japan specialist Stephan Holl (Rapid Eye Movies) will interview this all-rounder creative genius. Asano Tadanobu is also active as a musician, model, artist, poet and calligrapher.
-You've just finished directing a short film. Any lessons learned from the filmmakers you've worked with?-It's called Tori and it's an omnibus consisting of five sketchy images taken from dreams that I've had, visualizations of those dreams--it's a stream of consciousness. It helped, for sure, working with Miike, Kitano, Oshima, in that they helped me, each one of them, to figure out what my own process was, how best to express myself. It was better than any film school, working with these titans of our cinema, I've been amazingly blessed in my career.
