Interview conducted by Ilaria Zaffino (La Repubblica)
“
For as long as I can remember, my life has always been accompanied by the works of Miyazaki
,
and his drawing always follows me.
»
It is precisely at the moment when the latest film by the great Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki,
The Boy and the Heron
, prances at the top of the rankings of the most watched films, confirming, if it were necessary, how much we love everything what comes from the East, that the writer Toshikazu Kawaguchi traveled to Italy to present his new book,
When the coffee is ready
, fifth part of the very popular “coffee series”, sold more than a million copies in the Boot.
We met him in a Roman trattoria, over a cup of coffee – “espresso” is perhaps the only Italian word he knows, at least the only one he has pronounced in another language than his during the entire duration of our interview –, in order to talk about this new “Japanese invasion”…
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