Kurosawa Kiyoshi and "Akarui Mirai" at Tokyo Filmex

[Aaron Gerow]

>  Akarui Mirai doesn't open in Japan until the spring movie season next 
>year.  I could finally see why the English title used to be "Jellyfish 
>Alert", but this is a film thematically closer to Ooinaru Genei and Ningen 
>Goukaku rather than Kurosawa's horror work.

I did an interview with Kurosawa about the film which ran in the Daily 
Yomiuri last week (I see it's still on the website: 
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm), so those interested can take a 
look. I couldn't include half of what we talked about, but even though 
this is not a horror film, it is a film with a "monster" and that was the 
focus of much of our talk. I didn't include this in the article, but he 
also said he didn't like the English title and was thinking of changing 
it.

Don, you said "used to be" in relation to the title. Have they officially 
changed it?

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