20 minutes with a Japanese cinema legend who'll make you rethink everything.
Acting
Denden's raw reflections on playing damaged fathers.
Direction
Funaki lets silence land like dialogue.
Director
Mitsuru Funaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Denden was a comedian for nearly two decades before Sion Sono reinvented him as Japanese cinema's most haunting father figure.
This interview dropped during Japan's 2011 triple disaster; Himizu's apocalyptic youth violence suddenly felt like documentary.
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