Director Yutaka Matsushige "On the red carpet 'Eating Show' Performance, for the fun of the audience" ('Solitary Gourmet The Movie')

Oct 03, 2024

 Director Yutaka Matsushige 'On the red carpet 'Eating Show' Performance, for the fun of the audience' ('Solitary Gourmet The Movie')
Director Yutaka Matsushige. Photograph = Reporter Ahn So-yun



'Solitary Gourmet The Movie' Director Yutaka Matsushige explained why he performed an eating show at the 29th Busan International Film Festival.

Director Yutaka Matsushige said at the 29th Busan International Film Festival Open Cinema World Premiere Screening Film 'Lonely Gourmet the Movie' held at the Film Industry Center in Haeundae-gu, Busan on the morning of the 3rd, `It is an honor to be on the red carpet at the Busan International Film Festival, which was visited again in a year.'

Director Yutaka Matsushige's feature-length debut, 'Lonely Gourmet The Movie', is a theater version of the popular late-night Japanese drama 'Lonely Gourmet', which has continued the series until season 10 since its first broadcast in January 2012. In particular, the theater version drew attention in that actor Yutaka Matsushige directed and directed it himself.



'The Lonely Gourmet The Movie' will meet with domestic audiences at this year's Busan International Film Festival ahead of its Japanese release in January next year. Director Yutaka Matsushige "I came to Busan a year ago to film a movie, but I didn't have a direct flight from Japan to Busan at the time, so I came through Seoul and thought "It's a troublesome film festival."After that, it is an honor to visit Busan again for the first time in a year and step on the red carpet at the Busan International Film Festival."

In particular, director Yutaka Matsushige drew attention by presenting 'Snack Mukbang' on the red carpet at the opening ceremony of the 29th Busan International Film Festival on the 2nd. And he said, "(The red carpet performance) I missed the in-flight meal in the work, so I had to eat a gun natto. I thought it would be fun for those who saw this scene through the open cinema to know later that what I ate on the red carpet was a gun natto.", he explained.



Meanwhile, 'Lonely Gourmet The Movie' is scheduled to be released in Korea in March next year.





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