In Double Suicide I wanted to bring out the black-dressed Kuroko to show how this piece of theatre is constructed, to expose that. So my great worry was that the Japanese theatre, with this musicality in its dialogue and its presentation, appealed to the emotions but it wasn't able to convey human philosophy or ideology. The writer of the Double Suicide was Monzaemon Chikamatsu, who was from a Samurai family. I was impressed by that. It must show some reality but it also must include fiction in order to be able to reach the audience.
Truth lies in the very thin layer, a layer like skin, that lies between fiction and reality.
Now, I would like to express my opinion about Hitchcock's films. Watching Psycho, the fact that fiction is presented in such a very realistic way made me see from the screen that walking that tightrope between fiction and reality is very, very moving. I always think of King Kong. The kind of monsters that people can create are worse than one can imagine. But in another way, King Kong is the ghost of the fear of the modern that people have, this unseen fear of the modern.