Shunji Iwai Came to Chengdu Yesterday Preparing for His New Film Maybe

Release Time: 2017-10-24

    Shunji Iwai, the Japanese leading figure of pure love movies, also nicknamed by Chinese film fan as “Japanese Karwai Wong” came to Chengdu in a low key, and then showed up in Jinsha Site Museum for visiting. He became interested in the vessels with bronze figure. His purpose of coming to Chengdu was unknown. Perhaps he was making preparations for his new film.

    On the afternoon of Mar. 26, 2013, Jinsha Site Museum posted on Xinlang Weibo, “Maybe you did not watch Swallowtail Butterfly or All about Lily Chou-Chou, but you’ve at least heard of Love Letter. Japanese director and writer Shunji Iwai showed up in Jinsha Stie Museum. What a surprise. Maybe he came to Jinsha to look for inspirations? Look at Shunji Iwai! He is so dedicated to visit Jinsha Site. Maybe he is going to shoot a film about a fantastic Jinsha story?” This post attracted a lot of netizens’ attention. Some said, “He should go to the museum. I can’t believe he is so young because I thought he was at the same age of Kitano Takeshi.

    Shunji Iwai once indicated in an interview that he was studying Chinese and he was curious about China. He hoped that he could shoot a film for China. Based on this, he came to Chengdu this time was making preparations for a film perhaps.