Comments on: Tokyo Sonata Q&A: Screenwriter Max Mannix

By: A Conversation With Barry Eisler

A Conversation With Barry Eisler — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:12:20 +0000

[...] on the set, which was a thrill. Sony bought my screenplay adaptation, but in the end director Max Mannix decided to write his own, which is fine by me — there are a lot of ways to interpret the [...]

By: j.j. murphy on independent cinema » Tokyo Sonata

j.j. murphy on independent cinema » Tokyo Sonata — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:59:58 +0000

[...] he was doing an Ozu-like film, is upset by Kurosawa’s treatment of his original script. He told Edward Champion: “The original screenplay that I wrote didn’t ask the audience to trust me here and there, [...]

By: A Feature and a Short Film: Tokyo Sonata and Le Maison en Petits Cubes « Banana Cream

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:29:11 +0000

[...] by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but has an Australian co-writer (Max Mannix). I was reading this interview with Mannix, and he seems slightly defensive about how the director thought that his original [...]

By: NYFF: Tokyo Sonata (2008) : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

NYFF: Tokyo Sonata (2008) : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:00:30 +0000

[...] part in an open series of reports from the New York Film Festival. For related material, you can read my interview with screenwriter Max Mannix or listen to a podcast interview with director Kiyoshi [...]