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Kazuo Ishiguro

British novelist, author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go; Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.

4 things

Shanghai ExpressOther Josef von Sternberg

loved

Shanghai Express is a train movie, and I love train movies.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Kazuo Ishiguro, the entry for Shanghai Express.

2023-01-06·criterion.com ↗

Pan’s LabyrinthOther Guillermo del Toro

loved

Everyone who sees Pan’s Labyrinth is overwhelmed by it. It’s a great movie about how human beings need fantasy.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Kazuo Ishiguro, the entry for Pan’s Labyrinth.

2023-01-06·criterion.com ↗

IkiruOther Akira Kurosawa

loved

I first saw Ikiru when I was a child growing up in England, and it had a profound influence on me.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Kazuo Ishiguro, the entry for Ikiru.

2023-01-06·criterion.com ↗

Le cercle rougeOther Jean-Pierre Melville

loved

I could recommend any number of the French noirs by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker, or Julien Duvivier, but Melville is a true artist, and Le cercle rouge is my favorite of those films.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Kazuo Ishiguro, the entry for Le cercle rouge.

2023-01-06·criterion.com ↗

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