Lets Play: Genki Kawamura and Jirô Nagae on a New Kind of Video Game Cinema

At first glance, film producer and novelist Genki Kawamura would not appear an obvious fit to helm a big-screen adaptation of an indie video game. Best known for producing major titles such as Hirokazu Kore-edas Monster and Makoto Shinkais Your Name, Kawamura made his directorial debut in 2022 with A Hundred Flowers, a muted and focused dementia drama. There was one sequence in that film that was well-received in how it showed how the world looks from that perspective, reflects Kawamura. I was h...