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“Newspaper Reporter” Screening in Korea, Directors Interview “Air Feeled”

2019-10-15T21:41:24.285Z


A filmmaker who spoke about the government and media battles, “Newspaper Reporter”, was screened in Korea from the 17th, and production officials had a press conference in Seoul on the 15th. It has become a hot topic in Korea as a “movie that criticized the Abe administration” before the screening.


The filmmaker who spoke about the government and media battles, “Newspaper Reporter”, was screened in Korea starting on the 17th. In Korea, it has been talked about as “a movie criticizing the Abe administration” before the screening, and dozens of reporters in charge of culture gathered.

The movie will be a Japanese newspaper reporter whose main character is Korean actress Shim Eun-gyeong, and actor Tori Matsuzaka will play a bureaucracy. It depicts a reporter who wants to pursue "truth" against the government, which aims to manipulate information and press media to maintain the administration.

On this day, Michito Fujii and Mitsuaki Kawamura producer met. From the Korean media, questions such as "How far is the movie?" And "Is there any pressure to make a movie criticized by the government in Japan?" Producer Kawamura stressed, “This movie is not a documentary,” and “The fictional story contains the truth. (Information manipulation by the government) is a problem not only in Japan but in the whole world.” Answered. Director Fujii replied, "There was no direct pressure (from the government, etc.), but the surrounding air felt that it would be dangerous to make such a work on the skin."

Reporters' attention was also drawn to the fact that the film was screened as the relationship between Japan and Korea deteriorated. Producer Kawakawa said, “The relationship between the two administrations and the people is different. I think how cultures face each other,” he said, “In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would like to see. "I want President Mung Jae-in to see it in Korea," he said. (Seoul = Takeda)

Source: asahi

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