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- Kore-eda Hirokazu said at a Busan press conference that his Eddie Redmayne-led Searchlight Pictures film is still at the screenplay stage, with preparations "progressing smoothly," and he declined to share a title or plot details.
- The director expects to formally announce the Redmayne project "next year at the earliest" and hopes to bring the finished film to Busan as well.
- "Look Back" premiered at Busan with cast members Deguchi Natsuki, Makita Aju, Mori Nana, and Ishikawa Ruka, and Kore-eda noted the festival has kept inviting him back since his debut — the opening ceremony even featured music named after him.
- Kore-eda pushed for 35mm shooting across all four seasons of "Look Back," arguing that the lack of post-production fixes "creates a healthy tension" for cast and crew and generates "a magnetic field" on location.
- The film's rotoscoped animation sequence — chosen because rotoscoping "sits halfway between live-action and drawn animation" — stands in for a future the two central characters never got to share, Kore-eda said.
- For "Look Back's" final shot, Deguchi Natsuki filmed alone in Akita after a long stretch with her co-star; Kore-eda's only direction was: "Show Kyoko through your back."
Why it matters: Kore-eda's confirmed Searchlight partnership on a Redmayne-starring project underscores continued Western studio appetite for his work, with the formal announcement pushed to next year at the earliest. His insistence on 35mm across all four seasons of an animated source adaptation represents an unusually rigorous production choice he tied directly to building collective on-set tension.
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