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    "Directors",
    "Interviews",
    "Exit 8",
    "Genki Kawamura",
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  "textContent": "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-eda’s Monster and Makoto Shinkai’s 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 hoping to expand on that, so I searched for some kind of elevated horror project to do […]\n\nSource",
  "title": "Let’s Play: Genki Kawamura and Jirô Nagae on a New Kind of Video Game Cinema"
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