Writer/Director Takahide Hori talks to Fest Track about process, tone, pacing and story build in regards to his stop-motion science fiction film: "Junk World" which played the Midnight Madness section at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario [Canada].
00:28I'm here in Toronto, Ontario for the Toronto International Film Festival.
00:33The transition, the evolution of your artistry between Junkhead and Junkworld, because it's so much more complicated in many ways.
00:45The difference between Junkworld and Junkworld is a big difference.
00:52It's a big difference between Junkworld and Junkworld.
00:57Junkworld.
01:16On the story side, though, because it happens in multiple acts from different approaches and different perspectives, that brings a whole new sort of approach to it, because you have to see things and how they will be perceived from multiple angles and multiple points of view.
01:33Could you talk about doing that and finding sort of that cadence, if you will?
01:38Junkhead and Junkworld were made by the story from the budget.
01:47In the case of Junkhead, it was the main area of the地下 road.
01:52It used to make a wall and make various scenes.
01:57Junkworld were made by the time, and the sets were made by 4 times.
02:04It was a big difference between the money and the money.
02:07And it made it through the water, and the sets were made from the other置, but the LOT megalts were made by the times another year.
02:20Episode 5, there are heart and heart play.
02:24.
02:26.
02:29.
02:32.
02:34.
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02:36and yet the story of robin obviously a character that was obviously indicated i want to give away
02:43too much in uh junkhead could you talk about evolving the character of robin from these
02:49many different viewpoints uh and how he must see what his responsibility is
02:55or his moral responsibility it's an interesting quandary of existence
02:59that robin as a character has to go through
03:02so it's me it's all
03:06well a
03:07junkheadではのせ世界観を見せるっていう映画だったんですけど
03:12junk world ではきっちりした物語を表現したくて
03:17でその中の軸になるロビンという キャラクターは
03:22まあ ai であるけれども a
03:25まあ自分にとってこう人間 美しい人間とはこうありたいみたいなそういう
03:32人間の表現をしてみたいな
03:35ダンボー
03:38junkhead
03:43junkhead
03:57and also junk world and even more so is the humor sort of the gallows humor
04:02um and how it plays into both uh verbally the dialogue but also in the action
04:09uh you know there's many great moments of just sort of dry humor could you sort of
04:14talk about finding that key didn't so
04:17ですねそれ
04:20まあ日本で育ってその面白さを表現してたんですけど
04:25それが海外でも通じるかはえっと
04:29うん自分にもわからなかった部分ですね
04:32だから今回そういうところがこのトノントの上映でも皆さん笑ってもらえてうん
04:39まあ自分が持ちたものがあってたのかなって再認識した感じ
04:44midnight maddest audiences are always great but it's also a culmination of a lot of work
05:03most people maybe don't understand the level of artistry and time it takes to make what you did
05:09and even more so to get it done um because you sort of talk about the response that you've gotten
05:15going from something like junkhead and then how it you're always planning it as a trilogy
05:21how you basically had to look at it ambitiously because you know you you've upped the ante unbelievably
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