Miwa Nishikawa: “Perhaps I’m interested in the discrepancies between what’s inside and outside a person,” she says. Photo: Felix WongMiwa Nishikawa: “Perhaps I’m interested in the discrepancies between what’s inside and outside a person,” she says. Photo: Felix Wong
Miwa Nishikawa: “Perhaps I’m interested in the discrepancies between what’s inside and outside a person,” she says. Photo: Felix Wong
Culture /  Film & TV

Miwa Nishikawa, filmmaker who has made a career out of depicting the deceits of ordinary people

Already seen as one of the leading Japanese filmmakers of her generation, director talks about her fifth movie, The Long Excuse, working with Hirokazu Koreeda, and Masahiro Motoki

Topic |   Asian cinema: Japanese films
Edmund Lee
Edmund Lee

Updated: 2:08pm, 17 Oct, 2017

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Miwa Nishikawa: “Perhaps I’m interested in the discrepancies between what’s inside and outside a person,” she says. Photo: Felix WongMiwa Nishikawa: “Perhaps I’m interested in the discrepancies between what’s inside and outside a person,” she says. Photo: Felix Wong
Miwa Nishikawa: “Perhaps I’m interested in the discrepancies between what’s inside and outside a person,” she says. Photo: Felix Wong
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