Times reviews I Wish

[Maria Jose Gonzalez]

I don't think the Maeda-Maeda appearance was a condition at all.
Koreeda was simply won by their charm,they are quite good.
He did want to have children as the main characters for his story and he wanted it to be brighter than his usual films.
Thus he rewrote the script for the twins and it didn't seem to trouble him at all,quite the opposite.
It is likely that the story improved significantly from the original.
Random interview,in Japanese,where he also speaks briefly about producing Mami Sunada's "Ending Note":

http://www.hmv.co.jp/news/article/1109270098/


Maria-Jose




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 From: Mark Roberts <mroberts37 at mail-central.com>
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
Sent: Monday, 14 May 2012, 8:13
Subject: Re: Times reviews I Wish
 



On May 13, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Roger Macy wrote:

Is the child-splitting just a necessary requirement for the story - or does such a practice have some currency in Japan ?  Koreeda, after all, is hardly a stranger to such issues in his films.  Perhaps he addressed that at a Q&A ?

Unfortunately, nobody asked about this at the Q & A that I attended, though it would have been interesting to hear his response.

Maria-Jose's observations help to account for the situation depicted in the film, though they also raise a further question about how Kore-eda got from a script about young romance to what we find in "I Wish". That's quite a reworking of the original theme. I wonder if there were other conditions on the funding, aside from the obvious desire for a story that involves JR bringing people together.

M
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