Tanjil Rashid

Kazuo Ishiguro: My love affair with film

The Nobel Prize-winner and screenwriter of Living talks about the effect Japanese film had on him

A Nobel laureate who can’t stop fantasising about a life of mediocrity and failure: Kazuo Ishiguro. Credit: Franco Pagetti / VI​I / Redux / eyevine 
issue 05 November 2022

Everyone has a type they can’t resist. For the writer Kazuo Ishiguro, it’s old men. Old men secretly worried they’ve spent entire lives on the wrong side of history. Old men born in a world of certainty, transplanted to a different, more dubious one. Old men asking themselves, as so many of us will do (if we haven’t already): ‘What was it all for?’

But as I wait at the offices of a West End PR firm to interview Sir Kazuo about his new film with Bill Nighy, Living, I can’t help but wonder what unlikely preoccupations these are for arguably...

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