CANNES, France -- Following the official screening of "Kaibutsu" ("Monster") at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, the film's director, Hirokazu Koreeda, said he enjoyed collaborating with screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto.
"As a screenwriter, he carefully constructs stories I could never write, and creates characters I could never imagine," Koreeda, 60, said at a press conference on Thursday in praise of Sakamoto. "It was such a fun collaboration."
The film was screened Wednesday evening in Cannes as one of the feature films in competition at the festival.
