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Japan – January 2007
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06-01-2007 Saturday: It’s a very, very long way from London to Tokyo, and even worse, it’s flying east which means the worst kind of jet lag. As I’m writing this I haven’t slept for 32 hours, but it feels like the middle of the day to me now. Tomorrow morning, however, will feel like the middle of the night, just as I have to start seeing potential locations for our Tokyo film. |
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The angle of the film was meant to be the ‘otherworldliness’ of Tokyo, but from what I’ve seen so far, it isn’t really that otherworldly. For a start almost every important sign is backed up in English and secondly, the girls are all wearing skinny jeans and trainers. Hardly the radical departure from the norm that I’d been expecting. Mind you my hotel room toilet comes with a heated seat and four different types of vertical sprinkler. That’s fairly unusual. The Park Hyatt is located in the top fourteen floors of a 50 storey skyscraper, my room on the 46th floor has amazing views over the city and is easily the highest room I’ve ever stayed in. The hotel was the location for the feature film, Lost In Translation. There's something bizarre about watching a DVD of the film in the same hotel room where most of the film seems to be set. |
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| Unusually the office has sent a researcher
out on this trip, Deborah McCarthy has already earned the nickname of
‘Moneypenny’ due to her unfailing ability to get her wallet out.
Something I’m not very good at. It makes a massive difference knowing
there is someone else there to sort out any little tantrums that may
happen along the way… …mostly mine.
Even though we only arrived this evening, and even though we're jet lagged, the recce schedule began immediately with a trip on the Jicoo floating bar. Probably the most bizarre boat I've ever seen in my life. And things got even more surreal when the entertainment started...
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