My Kind of Man
So here I am back in my Tokyo hotel now fully commissioned for a feature length documentary co production between BBC2 and NHK. It is a great opportunity to make a film of my choice with no brief.
But Japan presents my biggest challenge so far in making a film that gets under the skin of what is going on. This closed society is hard to crack, on my last trip 8 months ago I left never wanting to come back. But since then I have recharged my batteries and have been introduced to a character called Naoki who lives in Yamagata about 3 hours out of Tokyo.
Married 3 times, divorced 3 times he ran a bar called Night Dew named after a famous shampoo brand here but after getting into a fight the former communist found himself in hospital for 3 months. His bar closed and now he rides a Honda 90cc everyday for the post office dreaming of re-opening his Night Dew bar. He lives with a woman half his age that used to drink at the bar. He sounds like my kind of man.
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