80s Quote by Stephen Mallinder

Japan was this wonderful unexplainable sensual explosion - everything about it I found fascinating. There's a real dichotomy between the 'Blade Runner'-esque Tokyo to…

— Edith Bowman

I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them. It taught…

— Jacques Perrin

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it…

— Billy Connolly

Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.

— Amy Chozick

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

— Clive James

I knew I wanted to shoot in Japan early on. Years ago, we did a Japan segment in "The Community Project," and at the…

— Travis Rice

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk…

— Jack Kilby

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I'd entirely forgotten about Pass The Distance, and then I went to Japan in 2000, and was asked to do interviews with all these…

— David Toop

The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that,…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda