Last Night’s TV – Japan: A Story of Love and Hate
Japan: A Story Of Love And Hate created an intimate portrayal of Japanese life from within, and what it showed wasn’t the Japan I had a mental image of certainly.
Acclaimed documentary maker Sean McCallister followed Naoki – a formerly successful, thrice married and divorced entrepreneur who lost everything in the economic crash of the early 90s – and his much younger girlfriend Yoshei. He now works for a pittance in the Post Office in Yamagata while Yoshei works as a hostess in a bar among other things… Read more & comment »
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