I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

Action is just one of my skills.

I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a very special mixture between Japanese traditional culture and Western culture for the costume, set, story. Everything. I believe it will be a very special film that no one has ever seen.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.