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July 7, 2002

12:10

Sunday

The rain let up and the sun came out. So did moviegoers… "I thought 'The Good Things' was wonderful. I felt that I could really identify with the story," said Misa, on the right in this picture. "I liked 'There is no Remedy.' It's so short, and yet, its meaning has such a deep impact," said Yui, the girl in the middle of this threesome. Could she tell a story if she only had one minute? "I have no idea, but I'd give it a try," she laughed. "I guess if I were to try, I'd do something very ordinary, something that wouldn't really require a full-fledged story, just something interesting, I think." Her friend Tekka, on the other hand, liked "Mean People Suck." "What a harsh story."

14:30

More reaction to Sunday's programs

Kojiki Kuriki watched two programs in a row. He was mesmerized. "Mean People Suck" could only be a short film, he stated. "It's just not something you could make into a feature film, so it really worked. And I felt the same way about '80 Degrees East of Birdland,' in which the last three seconds of the film almost told the entire story." We asked Kojiki, who was born and raised in France, if he thought films in general have nationalities. "They say that films have no borders. But I think that the answer to that question is both yes and no. In some films you get a real sense of a country's culture and society, and in others, it sort of imposes limits. By that I mean, take a film like "Mean People Suck. " In my opinion, it's totally American. It's just not a story that you'd find in a Japanese film."