Edward Norton in Japan

Interview clips

The Japanese Keeping the Faith website has posted 27 video clips of Edward Norton from his November 2000 trip to Japan. Almost all of them are entirely in English and all but one of them are from interviews. They are divided into two sections: EN's Nov 2 press conference for Keeping the Faith and EN's Nov 4 appearance with Keeping the Faith screenwriter Stuart Blumberg at a Q & A session at the Tokyo film festival. KTF was screened in competition at the festival and won for best screenplay. Photos and articles on EN at the Festival

Without a knowledge of written Japanese, it is a little difficult to navigate the website, so I've provided a short description of the clip, the language it is in, and the direct url. I don't know what questions were asked.

Keeping the Faith Nov 2 Press Conference

1. Greeting (Japanese)

2. Choice to do KTF (mainly English)

3. ? (English)

4. Acting and directing (mainly English)

5. Working with people you know well (English)

6. Living in Osaka (Japanese/some English- See below*)

7. How will Japanese audiences respond to KTF (English)

8. The inspiration of the character of Anna (English)

9. Woody Allen and New York movies (English)

10. Woody Allen's style of moviemaking (English)

11.Milos Forman and David Fincher (English)

12. Songs in the movie (English)

13. Ben Stiller and Jenna Elfman (English)

14. The way Anna speaks (English)

15. Talking about filming in his old neighborhood (English)

16. Directing Milos Forman

Tokyo Film Festival Nov 4

EN and KTF screenwriter Stuart Blumberg arriving
(no dialogue- I believe the woman with them is their friend who was the inspiration for the character of Anna, as mentioned in one of the press conference clips)

Tokyo Film Festival Q and A- EN's opening comments (Japanese)

Returning to Japan (English- sound is low)

Catholic and Jewish communities response to the movie (English)

EN and Stuart Blumberg talk about Karaoke (Japanese/English)

Talks about how the story is true to Stuart Blumberg's original idea (English)

? (Japanese/English)

Acting and directing films (English)

Ben Stiller added his perspective from being a director (English)

Casting Jenna Elfman (English)

Deciding to direct Keeping the Faith (English)

Clip #6- A translation of part of what EN said in the interview was provided by dekoyabai@hotmail.com

".....Well, what should I say? 10 years....12 years ago, I studied Japanese very hard. I forgot Japanese completely. 12 years ago, I lived in Osaka. (English- I was working for an American company in Osaka. There's a) ......Aquarium. Aquarium. It's a new and large aquarium. It is immediately near the Osaka bay. I worked in. My company.I worked."

Video Clips

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