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" We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "

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" The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food. "

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" As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret. "

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" A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry. "

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" My mother used to work in a bank in Tokyo. It was a busy district, and after work, she used to go and watch films. "

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" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "

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" When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. "

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" My father did not have a lot of security in his life. He did odd jobs. He had a real struggle to make money. He lost a lot of time in his 20s, after the war, because he was sent to a forced-labour camp in Siberia. "

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" I grew up without a father. "

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