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@wacom35 жыл бұрын
The interviewer seems like he cannot get past the fact that Ishiguro, a Japanese by birth, is actually a great writer of the English language.
@arindamkalita24303 жыл бұрын
Yeah. That's my thought too. He really seems off. U know, like a jealous kind of off...
@painterbythesea3 жыл бұрын
I don't think so.
@ajs41 Жыл бұрын
He comes across as a bit of an arsehole.
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
Not so much, they know each other.
@charleskristiansson12962 жыл бұрын
A beautiful response to such a staccato and rebarbative interview. Kazou is a very humble and patient interviewee. I'll leave it at that...
@bilaywant84592 жыл бұрын
Ishiguro is bewitching in every aspect .. eloquently avoiding the trap the interviewer keeps setting for him. I have just discovered Ishiguro and have fallen for his writing and particularly the scholar I am getting acquainted with .. wow I want to meet him
@mattk029813 жыл бұрын
this interviewer is definitely just an embodiment of the society that surrounded him at this time. Ishiguro is English but always will be treated as 'the other'
@arindamkalita24303 жыл бұрын
Yes
@lampad4549 Жыл бұрын
Jesus projecting much he just wanted to know about his life.
@amanalone34733 жыл бұрын
Jesus this was hard to watch. I am not a huge fan of Kazuo’s work, but I feel seriously bad for him here. Good on him for being the better man.
@오늘도유튜브와10 ай бұрын
The interviewer probably had no idea that he would win the Nobel Prize. Lesson to all of us is to not judge others and always show humility.
@stephencarroll2303 жыл бұрын
Ishiguro is one of the greatest living authors!
@katieodonnellyoutube3 жыл бұрын
Why does the description say “discusses the difficulty of... growing up in the shadow of the atomic bomb”. Within the first few minutes Kazuo literally says that Japan had recovered rapidly before he was even born.
@emilyhancock34566 жыл бұрын
Poor Ishiguro, so classy despite the interviewer's obvious racism
@busnfatnuts29883 жыл бұрын
What?
@arindamkalita24303 жыл бұрын
I agree
@andyc64393 жыл бұрын
Racism? You're having a laugh. I agree, the interviewer is a bit heavy handed with the Japan-related questions, but Ishiguro's first two books were about Japan in one way or another. It was obviously a topic worth exploring, at least to some degree...
@painterbythesea3 жыл бұрын
@@andyc6439 Absolutely no racism whatsoever in any questions posed.
@painterbythesea3 жыл бұрын
People nowadays notice racism everywhere - even white rice is not spared.
@lawnmower41915 жыл бұрын
The interviewer is terrible. Did not even practice saying his name correctly. He just cannot accept Kazuo Ishiguro as British. May be after the Nobel prize?
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
Fascinating content, thank you. I do not know either writer’s work, but their minds are pleasant. It gives me nostalgia for writers in a seminar. The clarity of thoughts emerging from Kazuo Ishiguro-the spontaneous words feel like written statements preserved in cotton, clean and succinct. Corrective and gentle and assured. This conversation & ambiance makes me think of Bohm’s dialogues with J Krishnamurti, or the latter’s one-off with Chögyam Trungpa. Room of two people talking and only ideas are there, not persons.
@peterpaluska7745 Жыл бұрын
Kazuo is so quietly brilliant it is devastating.
@HomeAtLast5019 ай бұрын
Why do so many people spew such pseudo-intellectual BS when it comes to novelists? Yet they don't do this with other storytellers, such as filmmakers. In what way did this devastate you?
@peterpaluska77459 ай бұрын
@@HomeAtLast501 Maybe try rereading my sentence a few times?
@HomeAtLast5019 ай бұрын
Okay, I reread the comment that uses stilted language. I pose the appropriate question again: In what way did the his brilliance devastate you?@@peterpaluska7745
@HomeAtLast5019 ай бұрын
Perhaps a better question would be what did he say that you thought was "quietly brilliant"? Why don't we start there?@@peterpaluska7745
@HomeAtLast5019 ай бұрын
I'm really hoping I'll hear back from you --- I'm dying to learn from you!@@peterpaluska7745
@tosaohhama7 жыл бұрын
Congratulation for Nobel Literature Prize !!! Omedetou !!! From Japan
@lawnmower41915 жыл бұрын
I bet the Remains of the Day set this interviewer wrong about pigeonholing Ishiguro as a Japanese writer.
@Nicky.Slunsky4 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ, that's gotta be the worst interviewer ever.
@太陽明るい-v7v7 жыл бұрын
aww this interview is before remains of the day ahhh
@patricklim50426 жыл бұрын
wow... this is a terrible interview. I watched the whole thing waiting for the interviewer to get past his obsession with Ishiguro being Japanese. Thankfully, Ishiguro's eloquence more than makes up for it.
@daminisingh57486 жыл бұрын
Patrick Lim OMG I felt the same... some bits were rude too where he's asking if he struggled to learn English
@patsong6 жыл бұрын
Rude and petty interviewer
@evajd69716 жыл бұрын
Yeah i noticed the same thing. It is irritating. I guess those were the days when ignorance wasnt so veiled in academic circles. I must say Ishiguro was very patient with him.
@inkkvibe5 жыл бұрын
@@daminisingh5748 I was going to say the same, dumbest question ever, though in US I've been struck with this question many times, and English is one of my first languages though I'm from former USSR ( cause I went to school with an advanced English program). I hate it how English speakers somehow assume that everyone else is a savage who speaks no English and uneducated.
@ajs41 Жыл бұрын
@@inkkvibe Russians probably think the same.
@MegaKahili5 жыл бұрын
Wow, that interviewer did a really terrible job.
@michellemartinradio6 жыл бұрын
What an awful, lazy start to the interview.
@petestevens3970 Жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@graceepge25214 жыл бұрын
He is sooo cute
@lawnmower41917 жыл бұрын
I believe this guy. I mean Ishiguro.
@walkingwith_dinosaurs2 ай бұрын
Ох какой он тут красивый! И внешне и по поведению в этой ситуации. И как же приятно и немного неожиданно слышать что больше всех он выделяет в том числе И Толстого и Достоевского...
@ruzzelladrian9077 жыл бұрын
He's cute 😍
@inkkvibe6 жыл бұрын
ruzzell907 yeah, he's adorbs and love his books as well. His wife's a lucky gal.
@twinflame94973 жыл бұрын
What a fine guy!
@Le_Samourai Жыл бұрын
12:50 this answer really hit home after reading Remains of the Day (which was published afterward in 1989)
@videotravelalex5 ай бұрын
Oh but Mr. Ishiguro, YOU ARE A Rockstar!
@ruzzelladrian9077 жыл бұрын
Never Let Me Go ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@gillianlaker10333 жыл бұрын
This is a very awkward interview but I'm not sure you can accuse the interviewer of racism. He is not interviewing the author of The Remains of the Day. At this point Kazuo Ishiguro had only published two novels, both of which are set partially or wholly in Japan. The first is primarily about the psychological impact that emigrating from Japan to England has on a child growing up estranged from her culture. It would be odd to avoid Japan as a subject and to not investigate whether the author shared any of his character's estrangement. The questions could have been asked with considerably more tact, but I'm glad they were asked as the answers are fascinating.
@v.l.82733 жыл бұрын
Yes, this is the right perspective.
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
Yes. Plus they know each other. These are two colleagues talking, as an MFA seminar pair would. One is tasked with interviewing the other, a Japanese-raised English author whose first two novels related to that aspect of his identity, and people are flabbergasted he asks about Japan. Could be better put, doesn’t feel incredibly daunting, especially when taping for an audience of what was
@adamcarroll19755 жыл бұрын
“Obviously you were born in Japan.” Huh? Why is that “obvious?”
@maxmeier5323 жыл бұрын
If tell the Queen of England, that she was obviously born in England, would you consider that racist? The interviewer, who ever it is, obviously knows Ishiguro's biography, knows not only of his work but has read it. This is not a random dude telling a random guy unbeknownst to him that he is obviously japanese. So relax and try using your brain before your rac-o-meter turns on. It's too late to cancel the interviewer anyway and you wont find any old tweets of his.
@zeehas60053 жыл бұрын
because he has read up on him, he meant its obvious to himself
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
Because he wrote two books about it that were moderately successful. It would be like saying “Victor Wembanyama-well, you are from France obviously…”
@carolyn9773 жыл бұрын
Young Kazuo's so hot!
@christopherdfrias3 жыл бұрын
The interviewer is downright nasty and rude.
@explorerelka Жыл бұрын
The Interviewer is intoxicated or what? Is this Education Television that was part of programming till 90's....
@SethMoodyinersphobia6 жыл бұрын
What is that guy looking at in his lap?
@ajs41 Жыл бұрын
Just a tic.
@arturobandini40788 күн бұрын
He had a massive boner tent-poling in his trousers.
@justinsmith7003 ай бұрын
And I thought Christopher Rose was a bad interviewer…
@maxmeier5323 жыл бұрын
Ok, this comment section needs some cleaning up. The "Interviewer", as stated in the beginning of this clip, is Clive Sinclair, who according to Wikipedia was born into a jewish family with the name Smolensky. Not your middle of the road racist brit is it? He died in 2018 so give him some slack. He also wasnt a random journalist, he was a writer himself. By the time of this interview he was already a fellow of the Royal society of Literature, as Ishiguro himself became just 3 years after this interview. Sinclair was also a lecturer at the school Ishiguro had studied creative writing. He apparently wasnt focussing on becoming the next Pierce Morgan, so he doesnt care about the antics in front of the camera, or perhaps even is a bit shy. Sinclair was most likely neither a racist nor some "terrible" interviever. He asked open questions, gave Ishiguro plenty of time to go on long tangents only somewhat addressing the topic of the question. There were no provocative questions, in contrast, Sinclair gave Ishiguro the opportunity to clarify whatever he disagreed with. He mispronounced Ishiguro's name for a second, which you can not really blame him. Frankly, I doubt anyone of you guys actually pronounce any japanese name the correct way and your neighbour Ahmed probably knows you dont pronounce his name correctly. Sinclar referred to Ishiguro as "obviously from Japan", not because he looked "japanese", but obviously for the fact that he knew Ishiguro's biography very well, has read his work, and had met him before as mentioned in the interview! So, all the white knights, all the cancel culture boomers and millenials, appreciate this interview for the content and get your heads out of your bums.
@ytsm2 жыл бұрын
Hallelujah!
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
Concur.
@walkingwith_dinosaurs2 ай бұрын
I don't care who the interviewer is or his family history or his prizes. Because that doesn't mean anything. He IS a very insensitive, uncultured, weird guy, who can't even care to pronounce Ishiguro's name correctly. Thankfully Kazuo's shining talent is obvious even when he's just talking, so the interviewer didn't ruin the interview.
@rohitranjan785 жыл бұрын
'Rock muscians get more women than writers ' pretty straightforward statement by the interviewer :)
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
🤘🏼 (Can confirm as a writer 😅).
@cloudyyy_0.02 жыл бұрын
He is so pretty :(
@ajs41 Жыл бұрын
And that's just the interviewer.
@inkkvibe6 жыл бұрын
Ancient interview, the year before I was born.
@ajs416 жыл бұрын
1986 isn't ancient. I can remember 1986 very well, I was 7 years old.
@inkkvibe5 жыл бұрын
@@ajs41 yeah, but I wasn't even born back then.
@videotravelalex5 ай бұрын
I wonder if Mr. Ishiguro writes in Japanese.
@ajs416 жыл бұрын
Who's the interviewer?
@HomeAtLast5019 ай бұрын
Jesus, just ask about the book.
@HomeAtLast5019 ай бұрын
A half-decent interviewer/host provides the audience with the basic biographical information regarding the guest, and then asks deeper questions. It's bush league to COMMAND the guest to state their biography.
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
These are two colleagues performing to tape for a tiny TV audience, you’re overreacting.
@HomeAtLast5015 ай бұрын
@@winonafrog No, you just have low standards, or, low comprehension of the principles of interviewing. I do a podcast for a small audience, and I always honor the guest by walking through their biography.
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
@@HomeAtLast501 This is exactly my point: this is a novelist talking offhand to another writer, that is not a professional interviewer. Best of luck.
@HomeAtLast5015 ай бұрын
@@winonafrog Where did you get the impression that I was a professional interviewer? I'm not. I do a podcast for a small audience, I am not paid by anyone to do this, and it is not my profession. Who is the interviewer?
@cloudyyy_0.02 жыл бұрын
My mans a noble Laurette
@jebidiahkorn4 жыл бұрын
Respectively, I equate Ishiguro and Murakami to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. I'll spare you the explication.
@kylelarson31264 жыл бұрын
Except that they don't hate each other, but yes I would have to say two of the most prolific writers out of Japan.
@malvinderkaur541 Жыл бұрын
International armed forces have a so called laid down strict regulations that none of them are supposed to attack civilian establishments areas and concentrate in wars only on armed bases yet like so called all laws regulations flouted by certain layers of societies formed where none of civil society norms exist for them... nuclear bomb in all its cruelty was dropped on Japan's helpless public.
@ke10354 жыл бұрын
That was a terrible racism of the interviewer, but that used to be a common attitude of British people to us, Japanese, perhaps it is even now.
I think, perhaps, when people sense racism in the interviewer question is a relevant question,and it is quite easy to labelled as that in retrospective. However, this interview set before Ishiguro's The Remain of the Day is published, thus his prior works, which supposed based in Japan stands out. We also have a hindsight bias, because by then, in 1986 Japanese culture is not widespread as of now, and I sense curiosity in interviewer's questions rather than ignorant rascism.
@walkingwith_dinosaurs2 ай бұрын
Does it matter if The remains of the Day is not yet written and published? Just first 30 seconds of the interview show how "good" of an interviewer that dude is🤦🏿♀️
@chipichipichapachapa7334 жыл бұрын
LOL the interviewer looks like he's falling asleep at 07:25
@LONDONFIELDS20015 ай бұрын
Vaguely racist interview tbh. Why is he reducing almost every question to ethnicity?
I don't agree with the negative remarks here about the interviewer. He is trying to explore Kazuo's background at the beginning, but moves on to his interest in writing and first novels within a few minutes. He is facing a challenging interview.
@eyerebel7633 жыл бұрын
And then went right back into asking questions about Japan lmao. Either you share the same bias as the interviewer or you skipped through sections of the entire interview lol. What makes this interview more challenging than other interviews?
@maxmeier5323 жыл бұрын
@@eyerebel763 The fact that Ishiguro goes on long tangents barely even trying to answer the mostly straight forward questions. Which is fair but dont pretend like this was a simple task.
@eyerebel7633 жыл бұрын
I'm not much of a pretender. Quite the opposite, actually.
@eyerebel7633 жыл бұрын
In which portion of the interview are you referencing in terms of you claiming that he is not even answering the most straight forward questions? When I watch the interview, I see him in an uncomfortable situation, trying his best to answer the questions--and steer the conversation in another direction. I think he did an admirable and articulate job at it and I'm not even a Kazuo fan.
@eyerebel7633 жыл бұрын
Like I said. It seems like you share the same bias as the interviewer. It appears almost hard or impossible for you to understand Ishiguro's POV, because you are empathizing with the interviewer so hard--whom you probably share the same bias's with and are completely blinding yourself to details in the interview that stick out like like a sore thumb.
@clarehsueh76832 жыл бұрын
Why did the interviewer look so uneasy, as if he had done something bad.
@ytsm2 жыл бұрын
Well if you believe the comment section, the interviewer is the most racist person to ever Grace our screens. I know "snowflake" is a tired trope, but the delicate flowers accusing the interviewer of unrelenting bigotry, really need to get a grip.
@walkingwith_dinosaurs2 ай бұрын
@@ytsmyou probably are just like him that's why the comment section triggers you. I'm glad the society evolved for these 40 years
@clausesanta50424 жыл бұрын
So this was 3 years before he wrote "Remains of the Day"?
@winonafrog5 ай бұрын
Your comment was three years ago-is your novel ready?