Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.