Takashi Miike made a teaser trailer for Shohei Imamura's final film, WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE. To make it stand out, Miike declined using clips from the film and instead had famous friends of his sing the title.
Imamura's reaction was "I don't get it. Can we release this?"
Have been informed that "making no-budget art with my friends just because we want to" is exploitation so I'm logging off for a while to reflect on my crimes.
If making movies for no money is ‘exploitation’, then i have exploited my own self far worse than i have ever exploited others—and by such a wide margin that their exploitation means literally nothing by comparison