'Sheep in the Box' Director Hirokazu Kore-eda: "Generative AI That Resurrects the Dead Inspired Me to Make This Film"

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Director Hirokazu Kore-eda shared his thoughts on telling a family story using humanoid robots as a subject.

On the afternoon of the 4th, a press screening for the film 'Sheep in the Box' was held at Megabox COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Following the screening, a press conference was held, attended by child actor Riku Kuwaki and Director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

The film 'Sheep in the Box' tells the story of a seven-year-old humanoid who enters a home to replace a deceased child, experiencing the joy of finally becoming a family and the anxiety of possibly being abandoned again. Director Hirokazu Kore-eda, the master behind 'A Family' and 'Monster', has interpreted the era's central theme of 'AI and humanoids' through his own family narrative.

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda said, "I have made films in Korea and have many acquaintances here, so it is a country I hold dear. I have not been able to visit often due to busy film shooting schedules, but I am happy that the film is being released early in Korea right after its Japanese release, and that I was able to come here with Riku Kuwaki."

Continuing, Director Hirokazu Kore-eda stated, "This story began two years ago when I heard about a business where generative AI resurrects the dead. I went to Shanghai to meet that person and heard their story. They showed me photos and videos of their deceased loved ones stored in their phone and demonstrated how AI could recreate them. That was the starting point of the film." He added, "I am curious how the audience will receive this story. In the film, everyone goes to the forest, but the adults do not live there; they return. Rather than 'they all lived happily ever after,' I imagined that we live imagining a Kakeru who once existed but is now gone, invisible. I wanted to convey that imagination."

Meanwhile, 'Sheep in the Box' will be released in theaters nationwide on the 10th.

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