Audiences watching Busan’s opening night film “The Horse Thieves” will get to see a universal and somewhat linear tale of greed, cruelty and man’s uneasy place in nature.
Behind the scenes, however, it was a learning and co-operative experience between film makers from different cultures.A rare Kazakhstan-Japan co-production, “Horse Thieves” was co-directed by Yerlan Nurmukhambetov and Japan’s Lisa Takeba.
It stars Samal Yeslyamova, Cannes prize winner for her performance in “Ayka,” opposite Japanese heart throb Moriyama Morai, known for his roles in “Rage” and 2004 smash hit “Crying out Love in the Center of the World.”Having agreed to cooperate, the two directors held multiple, prolonged Internet phone calls in order to shape the story and the script.
They examine the consequences that flow from the slaying of a horse farmer who had taken his flock to market.“Our initial plan on the set was for a division of labor,
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