Nippon Connection 2020 - Day 3

On this third day of the Nippon Connection Festival, we couldn't follow any event, so let us talk straight about the movie we watched: the docu-fiction Family Romance, LLC by Werner Herzog, director of the classics Aguirre Wrath of Gods and Fitzcarraldo with Klaus Kinski, more recently Queen of the Desert with Nicole Kidman and the Documentaries Grizzly Man, Into the Inferno and Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World. He also recently acted in the Disney Star Wars TV-series The Mandalorian.

Family Romance, LLC is about a specialized type of companies in Japan which services consist in renting people that can pass for a friend or a family member for a day, or a given period of time.
It is interesting to watch this interview of director Werner Herzog and his interpreter Jasmin Dose who was key to the making of the film, after watching the movie or before if you don't care too much about spoiler, to better understand why and how the movie was made, and in which context. This sheds some light on why it looks like it does.
The Festival also recorded an interview of Yuichi Ishii, lead actor in the movie and real-life CEO of the company Family Romance, LLC.
Here is what we have to say about the movie, as well as some photos:

Yuichi Ishii

Director Werner Herzog

See you tomorrow!
Jo&Raf