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In this Nov. 7, 2018, photo, Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto speaks to reporters about his latest film &quot;Killing&quot; during a press conference in Tokyo. He said he turned to the Japanese masters for inspiration but also emulated the way Martin Scorsese gave free rein to his actors, a technique he learned when he was cast in &quot;Silence,&quot; to play a Christian martyr. &quot;Killing,&quot; a poetic but brutal story about the horrors of violence, premiered at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year and opens in Japan on Nov. 24. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Tsukamoto inspired by Japan’s masters, acting under Scorsese

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo, Japanese film director Shinya Tsukamoto speaks during an interview in Tokyo. Violence pulsates in Tsukamoto’s early films, driving stories into nightmarish fantasies like in 1989’s “Tetsuo,” which ridicules middle-class conformity with a man-becomes-machine metamorphosis. The nature of violence changed in his more recent films, from whimsical “cyberpunk” horror to horrifying reality. In an interview, he says that’s why he identified so closely with Martin Scorsese’s “Silence,” in which he plays a Christian martyr in samurai-era Japan. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Japan actor in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ drawn to recurring theme

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press