Here are some question/answers from the interview with the director
(which was in the Movie pamphlet) regarding what he had in mind  
when he made KOR THE MOVIE.


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Q: Interviewer
A: Mochizuki Tomomichi

Q: Unlike in TV and manga, it seems that you put more emphasis on
   Hikaru than on Madoka. Did you make any changes to characters 
   compared to manga and TV because it's a theatrical release?

A: I used characters just as in manga and I didn't make any changes.
   Only difference is that I put more emphasis on Hikaru when 
   compared to manga and TV since she's the one who's being totally
   rejected. I considered what will happen at this kind of stage. I
   believe even they have to be SERIOUS in this situation. In manga,
   it ends with Hikaru slapping Kyosuke just once but I tried to
   make that more realistic in this movie.


Q: I believe you had lots of request from manga fans to continue
   the triangle.

A: Well, I guess the movie might be too cruel to manga fans. But at
   same time, the longer the relationship continues, the more Hikaru
   will get hurt in the end. I didn't mean to be cruel to Hikaru. In
   manga, that kind of half-way relationship continued for 4 years
   but although this is a manga, I don't think they can't stay that
   way forever. The movie started from the idea "What will happen if
   they put an END to the triangle" and it turned out to be a story
   that's very likely to happen in real world.


Q: Was there something that you had in mind when you made this
   movie?

A: Since this is a triangle, I think that all three of them should
   hurt. I tried to make the story that makes sense from the
   realistic point of view.


Q: What are your "ideals" and how did they effect the movie?

A: I discarded ideal elements. I paid attention to make the movie more
   realistic.




                        Tonghyun "Vajra" Kim
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