DISTANCE
This mission began when I was assigned to shoot stills for "DISTANCE" and was told by Mr. Kore-eda that I could shoot anything I wanted. I think that a film can make people believe in it when they see it because the filmmakers are so involved in the story. In this case, the actors did not know the whole story. In other words, they had no choice but to enter into the story, both publicly and privately. In this situation, I took the stance of not entering the storyline. I tried to be there as a third party. I wanted to know what was going on outside of the shooting site at the moment when the images we are seeing in the movie theaters are being shot. I always felt uncomfortable in that position in the field. The act of taking photographs is always a solitary, or rather, personal process. I felt like a traitor. But perhaps I had already fallen into Kore-eda's trap at that time. The more I tried to stay away from the film, the more I was drawn into it. I could not be a black sheep in this scene. Or was this a group of black sheep? I think I participated in this film with a story to capture the reality of the filmmaking scene. Can one escape from the story one has created?
BOOK PUBLISHED ON APRIL, 2001.