<!-- 583.html -->  <div id="pagebody_outline">    <div id="left_box">      <div id="title_box">      <div id="titie_box_top"><!-- Image --></div>      <div id="midashi">Interview with Naoki Segi, the director of the film “KIZUKI”</div>      <div id="title_box_left">Expressing gratitude to natureInterview with Naoki Segi, the director of the film “KIZUKI”Environmental issues without borders!!</div>      <div id="title_box_right">        <div id="title_box_right_top"><!-- Image --></div>        <div id="title_box_right_text">Interviewer　Miss　Oｈ<br />Chinese　student             </div>        <div id="title_box_right_bottom"><!-- Image --></div>      </div>      <div id="titie_box_bottom"><!-- Image --></div>    </div>  <div id="bold_text">Environmental issues without borders!!<br /></div>      <div id="article">        <div id="article_left">                                  <img src="/english/images/feature/583_feature_06.JPG" width="140" alt="feature_06">                                <div id="article_text"></div>                                  <img src="/english/images/feature/583_feature_08.JPG" width="140" alt="feature_08">                              </div>        <div id="article_right"><font color="#FF3366">Q:What inspired you to direct a film?</font><br /><br /><br />A:I was born in Yokkaichi, Mie, which was notorious for pollution.  When I went on a family trip to Nagano, I was so fascinated by prodigality of nature that I was eager to live surrounded by nature.<br />Also at the fourth grade of elementary school, the picture of Minamata disease in a school textbook, which showed the miseries pollution caused, has convinced me to break into broadcast journalism. <br />However, I failed to pass examination of major newspaper company and joined the filmmaker where I had been working as a part-timer when I was in college. <br />Only two and half years after I joined it, thanks to excellent staff, I became a director, though it usually takes 10 years at least to do.<br />It took very little time for me to become director, so I was at a loss about what I wanted to be like.  At age 26, I quit the job to travel all over the world.  I have been asking myself whether I really loved films or not for seven months there.<br />I saw myself objectively in an environment where I had trouble in communicating. <br />I paused to realize that film, which contained 24 exposures in a second, could deliver more messages than photos.  Then I came back to Japan to start all over again from assistant director.<br />I really love films now.<br /><br /><font color="#FF3366">Q:Do you develop a special feeling for “KIZUKI”?　</font><br /><br /><br />A:I emphasized contradictory behavior and inner conflict people have.<br />This film is not documentary one.<br />It is a human drama depicting social problems hiding behind.<br />We make something and consume resources for our survival.<br />We have to consume resources to make something.<br />This is human contradictory behavior.<br />This film is composed of four stories and each story has a main character of its own.  Each character has his or her contradiction and conflict.  You can check stories from your own experience.<br /><br /><font color="#FF3366">Q:What do you think about environmental issues in China?　</font><br /><br /><br />A:There is a scene where people pick up trash washed ashore on Ishigaki Island in the film.<br />80 to 90 percentage of it is from abroad, especially China and Korea.<br />What I want to say is it’s not only China and Korea that is to blame and we have environmental issues without borders.I want this understood.<br />It is essential that people from all over the world should take some actions all the more for environmental issues without borders.<br /><br /><font color="#FF3366">Q:Can　I　have　the　message for foreign students　？</font><br /><br /><br />A:Unfortunately, it’s the case that sometimes trash is not sorted out in the proper way in a district where many foreign students live.<br />Though they have respective environment, culture, and lifestyle habit, I want them to think again about what they should do to solve environmental issues without borders. .<br /><br /><font color="#FF3366">Q:What　is　your　Motto？　</font><br /><br /><br />A:It’s “gratitude”.  I don’t forget to express gratitude to nature, people around me, and my family.<br /> </div>        <div class="both10"></div>        <div></div>      </div>      <div class="both10"></div>                        <div id="profile">            <h4 id="profile_top">Mr　Naoki Segi, the director </h4>            <div id="profile_photo">              <div id="profile_photo_top">              <!-- Image -->              </div>            <img src="../images/feature/583_feature_12.jpg" width="130" />              <div id="profile_photo_bottom">              <!-- Image -->              </div>            </div>            <div id="profile_text"><strong>Naoki Segi</strong><br />Born in 1963, in Mie<br />Working as a freelance after having worked for <br />a production after graduation from college<br />He continually shoots films which are set on nature <br />and community of region.  His previous film<br /> “Watch with me”,<br /> which was about how terminal care should be,<br /> got best customer satisfaction in the film, <br />drama magazine “Pia” in last June.  <br />He is now attracting attention as a social director <br />in the field of education and of town development<br /> as well as in the film industry.</div>            <div id="profile_bottom">            <!-- Image -->            </div>          </div>          <div class="both10"></div>          <div id="left_line">          <!-- Image -->          </div>                   </div>  <!-- end of left_box -->  </div><!-- end of pagebody_outline -->