1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:16,864 --> 00:00:18,864 (pants) 4 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:40,810 - It's so common trick, 5 00:00:40,810 --> 00:00:43,060 after five, where's the script? 6 00:00:43,060 --> 00:00:44,150 After five years. 7 00:00:44,150 --> 00:00:46,540 Five years is like five years. 8 00:00:46,540 --> 00:00:49,890 It's only two of those that you plan, 9 00:00:51,527 --> 00:00:54,840 still, the door inside Japan, getting inside Japan, 10 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,283 the sliding doors of Japan remain firmly closed. 11 00:01:00,690 --> 00:01:05,690 This track, jog and think of lines of commentary, 12 00:01:06,420 --> 00:01:08,050 think of ways to film 13 00:01:08,050 --> 00:01:09,963 the film that wasn't happening. 14 00:01:11,405 --> 00:01:15,770 To get out of my hotel room, to stop getting depressed, 15 00:01:15,770 --> 00:01:19,480 to stop drinking, to stop taking sleeping pills. 16 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,330 Most days, I seem to be getting nowhere, 17 00:01:22,330 --> 00:01:25,113 and most nights I just wanted to fly home. 18 00:01:26,580 --> 00:01:30,427 Now, Grace pushed me away, taken Ted (mumbles). 19 00:01:31,870 --> 00:01:34,093 'Cause I filmed them in the hot tub. 20 00:01:35,210 --> 00:01:37,160 Which seemed completely innocent to me. 21 00:01:38,570 --> 00:01:40,000 And now I've got Naoki. 22 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,070 So, I've started to film Naoki again. 23 00:01:42,070 --> 00:01:43,460 And I love Naoki. 24 00:01:43,460 --> 00:01:44,901 I'm so happy. 25 00:01:44,901 --> 00:01:47,350 I feel great, left me here, 26 00:01:47,350 --> 00:01:49,100 'cause now I'm filming Naoki again. 27 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:54,350 He seemed to be the only person I was filming 28 00:01:54,350 --> 00:01:58,290 who didn't judge me, who didn't expect me to be Japanese. 29 00:01:58,290 --> 00:02:03,290 And who didn't mind me making my stupid British mistakes. 30 00:02:05,067 --> 00:02:08,370 (mumbles) he tell me privately last night, 31 00:02:08,370 --> 00:02:11,347 he doesn't like British people, but he likes me, ha! 32 00:02:12,450 --> 00:02:14,190 I'd come to Japan to make a film 33 00:02:14,190 --> 00:02:16,880 about what makes this crazy place tick, 34 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,353 but two years on, I'm more confused than ever. 35 00:02:22,451 --> 00:02:26,118 (sings in foreign language) 36 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,690 My mission was to make a film about Tokyo 37 00:02:37,690 --> 00:02:40,110 for BBC and then HKTV, 38 00:02:40,110 --> 00:02:42,950 but having failed, I'd come 300 miles north 39 00:02:42,950 --> 00:02:45,023 to a rural town called Yamagata. 40 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:47,290 Wow, this is tiny street. 41 00:02:48,130 --> 00:02:50,793 This was my last attempt at getting inside Japan. 42 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:55,930 I've been told about Naoki, 43 00:02:55,930 --> 00:02:58,390 a person who'd broken all the rules, 44 00:02:58,390 --> 00:03:00,400 a radical Communist regime 45 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,970 who'd gone on to be a successful entrepreneur, 46 00:03:02,970 --> 00:03:04,090 but when I met him, 47 00:03:04,090 --> 00:03:06,493 he was working part time at the post office. 48 00:03:08,938 --> 00:03:11,250 Are you collecting insurance money? 49 00:03:11,250 --> 00:03:13,913 - Not insurance, fee over there. 50 00:03:17,010 --> 00:03:19,010 Yeah, yeah, insurance money. 51 00:03:19,010 --> 00:03:20,700 I have no insurance (chuckles). 52 00:03:22,390 --> 00:03:25,223 (scooter rumbles) 53 00:03:26,661 --> 00:03:28,661 - [Sean] Hey, slow down! 54 00:03:29,684 --> 00:03:30,517 Slow down! 55 00:03:32,723 --> 00:03:35,091 (sings in foreign language) 56 00:03:35,091 --> 00:03:36,620 Is it okay to take a break? 57 00:03:36,620 --> 00:03:37,453 - It's okay. 58 00:03:37,453 --> 00:03:38,795 - [Sean] Legal? 59 00:03:38,795 --> 00:03:40,343 - I don't know about legal. 60 00:03:40,343 --> 00:03:41,630 But it's natural. 61 00:03:41,630 --> 00:03:42,463 - [Sean] Right. 62 00:03:44,460 --> 00:03:47,570 In a time when it was totally unacceptable to divorce, 63 00:03:47,570 --> 00:03:49,480 he'd been married three times 64 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,210 and was now struggling in a relationship 65 00:03:51,210 --> 00:03:53,353 with a girl half his age. 66 00:03:55,183 --> 00:03:58,183 (soft upbeat music) 67 00:03:59,570 --> 00:04:01,795 She wants you to get a second job, yeah? 68 00:04:01,795 --> 00:04:02,628 - Huh? 69 00:04:02,628 --> 00:04:03,461 - [Sean] Your girlfriend. 70 00:04:03,461 --> 00:04:04,378 - Ah, yeah. 71 00:04:05,294 --> 00:04:08,187 - [Sean] Wants you to get job number two. 72 00:04:09,850 --> 00:04:11,090 - Yes, she wants. 73 00:04:13,515 --> 00:04:16,887 I'm troublesome for her. 74 00:04:19,590 --> 00:04:20,883 She hates me. 75 00:04:21,797 --> 00:04:23,595 (Sean chuckles) 76 00:04:23,595 --> 00:04:25,170 - [Sean] Do you hate her? 77 00:04:25,170 --> 00:04:26,659 - No, I need her. 78 00:04:26,659 --> 00:04:27,492 - [Sean] Why? 79 00:04:27,492 --> 00:04:30,670 - To survive the fucking this country. 80 00:04:32,490 --> 00:04:34,400 - [Sean] Now, he was a breath of fresh air, 81 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,820 a rebel was a rare thing here. 82 00:04:36,820 --> 00:04:37,943 - He was a Maoist. 83 00:04:39,816 --> 00:04:40,750 (laughs) 84 00:04:40,750 --> 00:04:43,490 It's very the extreme people. 85 00:04:43,490 --> 00:04:45,410 You were making bombing. 86 00:04:45,410 --> 00:04:48,593 Put fire, and threw that overhead. 87 00:04:50,107 --> 00:04:51,500 Because we love baseball, 88 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:54,651 the underthrow is not so good. 89 00:04:54,651 --> 00:04:57,070 (laughs) 90 00:04:57,070 --> 00:04:58,200 - [Sean] Who were you bombing? 91 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,890 The police? 92 00:04:59,890 --> 00:05:01,470 - No, big company. 93 00:05:01,470 --> 00:05:02,710 - [Sean] Really? 94 00:05:02,710 --> 00:05:03,543 - [Naoki] Yes. 95 00:05:06,890 --> 00:05:09,630 - [Sean] It was rare to be invited to a Japanese home, 96 00:05:09,630 --> 00:05:12,290 but Naoki wanted to show me his. 97 00:05:12,290 --> 00:05:15,023 He told me to treat carefully, things were sensitive. 98 00:05:17,380 --> 00:05:18,417 She's asleep. 99 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,330 I was shocked by the tiny room with no windows 100 00:05:29,330 --> 00:05:31,570 where he'd been living with his girlfriend Yoshie 101 00:05:31,570 --> 00:05:33,173 for the last five years. 102 00:05:38,690 --> 00:05:40,520 When his last business went under, 103 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,543 she'd saved him from being homeless. 104 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,140 But now she'd had to take a second job to support him. 105 00:05:47,020 --> 00:05:48,530 Their situation was the last thing 106 00:05:48,530 --> 00:05:51,000 I expected to find in Japan, 107 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,003 the second richest nation on earth. 108 00:06:01,564 --> 00:06:04,570 (people speak in foreign language) 109 00:06:04,570 --> 00:06:07,310 Now he was forced to take the only job he could find, 110 00:06:07,310 --> 00:06:10,443 part time at the Central Yamagata post office. 111 00:06:12,470 --> 00:06:15,790 Part time here means working seven hours a day 112 00:06:15,790 --> 00:06:17,900 for just 3.50 pounds an hour. 113 00:06:23,002 --> 00:06:25,419 (bell rings) 114 00:06:28,990 --> 00:06:32,600 Until now, I felt locked out of Japan, 115 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,672 but naoki was keen to get me inside. 116 00:06:35,672 --> 00:06:40,672 (light upbeat music) (speaks in foreign language) 117 00:06:59,150 --> 00:07:02,863 Each day starts at 8:00 a.m. with early morning exercises. 118 00:07:03,870 --> 00:07:05,950 It was like landing on the moon: 119 00:07:05,950 --> 00:07:08,490 Grown men dancing in suits. 120 00:07:08,490 --> 00:07:11,258 Was this modern high tech Japan? 121 00:07:11,258 --> 00:07:15,008 (speaks in foreign language) 122 00:07:16,330 --> 00:07:20,150 The Japanese view the workplace as one happy family. 123 00:07:20,150 --> 00:07:21,550 But as a foreigner here, 124 00:07:21,550 --> 00:07:23,645 it didn't feel like home to me. 125 00:07:23,645 --> 00:07:27,750 (light upbeat music) (speaks in foreign language) 126 00:07:27,750 --> 00:07:30,660 I wondered how Naoki, a life-long outsider, 127 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:31,970 would cope with the pressure 128 00:07:31,970 --> 00:07:34,793 of being a part of this Japanese family. 129 00:09:19,820 --> 00:09:21,580 - It's kind of role playing, 130 00:09:21,580 --> 00:09:23,203 same thing every day. 131 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,615 Some people crazy, go to hospital. 132 00:09:27,615 --> 00:09:28,448 - [Sean] Really? 133 00:09:28,448 --> 00:09:29,281 - Yeah. 134 00:09:29,281 --> 00:09:30,114 Depress. 135 00:09:30,114 --> 00:09:30,947 - [Sean] Really? 136 00:09:30,947 --> 00:09:33,600 - Yeah, because every day check from the boss, 137 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,283 Why did you get every day zero? 138 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,590 Every day zero, fuck you! 139 00:09:39,590 --> 00:09:41,240 You are not human! 140 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,310 You are under the animal. 141 00:09:43,310 --> 00:09:44,143 Why? 142 00:09:44,143 --> 00:09:48,453 You are stealing your salary, every day steal, stolen. 143 00:09:50,780 --> 00:09:52,680 Yeah, depressed, depressed, depressed. 144 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:54,640 - [Sean] So they go to mental hospital? 145 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:55,473 - Yes. 146 00:09:57,272 --> 00:10:00,491 30,000 people kill themself. 147 00:10:00,491 --> 00:10:01,329 - [Sean] 30,000? 148 00:10:01,329 --> 00:10:02,579 - Yeah, 30,000. 149 00:10:06,833 --> 00:10:07,666 A big shame. 150 00:10:09,370 --> 00:10:14,180 But you gave me this fucking capitalist system 151 00:10:14,180 --> 00:10:16,007 one hundred years ago (chuckles). 152 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:20,480 First the East India company, 153 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,103 and after China, after Japan. 154 00:10:24,180 --> 00:10:25,380 Open the country. 155 00:10:25,380 --> 00:10:26,590 - [Sean] Yeah. 156 00:10:26,590 --> 00:10:27,781 (Naoki chuckles) 157 00:10:27,781 --> 00:10:29,610 And now you're rich. 158 00:10:29,610 --> 00:10:30,913 - Is this rich? 159 00:10:32,780 --> 00:10:33,723 Is military rich? 160 00:10:35,609 --> 00:10:36,859 Is good system? 161 00:10:38,290 --> 00:10:39,860 You gave me. 162 00:10:39,860 --> 00:10:40,771 - [Sean] Sorry. 163 00:10:40,771 --> 00:10:42,392 (Naoki chuckles) 164 00:10:42,392 --> 00:10:45,809 (upbeat, dramatic music) 165 00:10:51,850 --> 00:10:55,430 Just over one hundred years ago, Japan was a closed country, 166 00:10:55,430 --> 00:10:57,750 until the West forced it to open its doors 167 00:10:57,750 --> 00:10:59,600 and trade with the rest of the world. 168 00:11:01,967 --> 00:11:04,660 It was then it adopted our capitalist system, 169 00:11:04,660 --> 00:11:07,283 that has made it the second richest nation on earth. 170 00:11:08,447 --> 00:11:12,114 (sings in foreign language) 171 00:11:15,970 --> 00:11:18,830 Naoki ran a number of successful businesses. 172 00:11:18,830 --> 00:11:21,630 But the economy collapsed in 1992. 173 00:11:21,630 --> 00:11:24,080 And like thousands of others, he lost everything. 174 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,483 Now, there's more pressure on everyone to work harder. 175 00:11:30,420 --> 00:11:32,830 As jobs for life are no more in Japan, 176 00:11:32,830 --> 00:11:35,020 Naoki took the only work he could find, 177 00:11:35,020 --> 00:11:37,730 part time collecting life insurance premiums 178 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:38,893 for the post office. 179 00:11:40,620 --> 00:11:43,373 He gets paid six times less than the full timers. 180 00:11:44,340 --> 00:11:45,290 But at least he is free 181 00:11:45,290 --> 00:11:49,083 from having to meet their daily sales targets. 182 00:11:52,250 --> 00:11:54,343 - I realise it one moment, 183 00:11:55,188 --> 00:11:58,186 they have no good results. 184 00:11:58,186 --> 00:11:59,853 They walk like this. 185 00:12:01,219 --> 00:12:03,323 - [Sean] Do you think they are successful today? 186 00:12:03,323 --> 00:12:04,156 - They? 187 00:12:04,156 --> 00:12:04,989 No (chuckles). 188 00:12:04,989 --> 00:12:05,822 - [Sean] Why? 189 00:12:05,822 --> 00:12:06,655 - Too early. 190 00:12:07,721 --> 00:12:11,471 (speaks in foreign language) 191 00:12:14,936 --> 00:12:17,769 (scooter rumbles) 192 00:12:24,703 --> 00:12:25,536 I'm free! 193 00:12:26,578 --> 00:12:29,411 (scooter rumbles) 194 00:12:34,882 --> 00:12:36,715 This is Yamagata city. 195 00:12:38,613 --> 00:12:41,527 You can see the big one building. 196 00:12:41,527 --> 00:12:44,370 - [Sean] Naoki wanted to show me his hometown 197 00:12:44,370 --> 00:12:47,370 and pointed out the six-bedroom house where he used to live. 198 00:12:48,370 --> 00:12:50,520 After the family business went bust, 199 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,230 he fell out with his brother. 200 00:12:52,230 --> 00:12:53,953 He hasn't spoken to him since. 201 00:12:56,820 --> 00:12:59,030 Today, he has no one left in the city, 202 00:12:59,030 --> 00:13:00,480 except his girlfriend Yoshie. 203 00:13:03,239 --> 00:13:08,072 - Our family, my brother, me had three houses in the city. 204 00:13:09,620 --> 00:13:11,720 And two company, on, two, thee, 205 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,123 two company, one bar. 206 00:13:14,410 --> 00:13:16,063 And I had a BMW. 207 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:22,500 I bought the BMW new with cash, 70 million yen. 208 00:13:24,950 --> 00:13:27,380 - [Sean] Do you remember Naoki's bar? 209 00:13:27,380 --> 00:13:30,320 Is that where you met Naoki for the first time? 210 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,404 Is that where you met, in your bar? 211 00:13:32,404 --> 00:13:33,767 (phone ringtone) - So, so. 212 00:13:33,767 --> 00:13:34,650 Customer. 213 00:13:34,650 --> 00:13:36,150 - [Sean] Customer? 214 00:13:37,740 --> 00:13:39,110 - [Sean] I was told not to make a sound 215 00:13:39,110 --> 00:13:41,240 when Yoshie's clients called up. 216 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:42,940 To them she was single. 217 00:13:42,940 --> 00:13:44,690 Since Naoki had moved in, 218 00:13:44,690 --> 00:13:47,923 she had to supplement his income by taking extra jobs. 219 00:13:50,430 --> 00:13:53,140 - Customer believes she is single. 220 00:13:53,140 --> 00:13:55,840 So every night, every day they invite 221 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,800 and propose to get to date. 222 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,010 - [Sean] But they just want to talk 223 00:14:03,010 --> 00:14:04,150 and they just want to eat, 224 00:14:04,150 --> 00:14:06,260 they don't want anything else, or do they want to-- 225 00:14:06,260 --> 00:14:10,250 - Yeah, just to talk and to eat and sing a song together. 226 00:14:10,250 --> 00:14:11,466 - [Sean] Nothing else? 227 00:14:11,466 --> 00:14:12,299 - Nothing else. 228 00:14:12,299 --> 00:14:13,132 - [Sean] No kissing? 229 00:14:13,132 --> 00:14:14,280 - No kissing. 230 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,423 Sometimes they touch. 231 00:14:17,012 --> 00:14:18,173 Do they have a kiss? 232 00:14:19,810 --> 00:14:24,190 Her boss suggest her, like here. 233 00:14:24,190 --> 00:14:25,250 - [Sean] Keep her legs together. 234 00:14:25,250 --> 00:14:26,743 - Yeah. 235 00:14:26,743 --> 00:14:28,800 This is so polite. 236 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:29,731 - [Sean] Right. 237 00:14:29,731 --> 00:14:32,160 (speaks in foreign language) 238 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:37,160 - Everything, you have to compliment for their customer. 239 00:14:37,313 --> 00:14:39,563 (chuckles) 240 00:14:41,710 --> 00:14:42,817 - Eye shadow (chuckles). 241 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,110 - [Sean] Are you happy? 242 00:14:56,970 --> 00:14:59,040 - [Naoki] I'm busy, I have no time 243 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,970 to think about the fucking way. 244 00:15:01,970 --> 00:15:05,570 - [Sean] Are you happy in your first job more 245 00:15:05,570 --> 00:15:06,923 or your second job more? 246 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:11,393 - [Naoki] Enjoy. 247 00:15:15,924 --> 00:15:18,424 I can be female in night time. 248 00:15:22,730 --> 00:15:24,800 Every nights, every day, work, work, work 249 00:15:25,738 --> 00:15:27,000 to get money. 250 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,763 It's poverty, our level. 251 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,200 - [Sean] How many hours working together all, 252 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,140 day job and night job together? 253 00:15:35,140 --> 00:15:36,504 - 15. 254 00:15:36,504 --> 00:15:37,730 - [Sean] Hours? 255 00:15:37,730 --> 00:15:39,880 - Hours a day. 256 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:40,980 - [Sean] It's tough! 257 00:15:40,980 --> 00:15:45,563 - Yeah, it's capitalism now. 258 00:15:48,210 --> 00:15:49,293 She wants to sleep. 259 00:15:51,206 --> 00:15:52,456 But have to go. 260 00:16:04,087 --> 00:16:05,500 - [Sean] Yoshie was always nervous 261 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:07,140 when she was out with Naoki, 262 00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:09,973 in case she was seen with him by her regular customers. 263 00:16:13,050 --> 00:16:13,900 Where's she going? 264 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:16,003 - Yeah, you can take a film, 265 00:16:17,270 --> 00:16:19,060 they will meet soon. 266 00:16:22,770 --> 00:16:23,640 - [Sean] So, they're a long way, 267 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,490 they're a long way away, don't worry. 268 00:16:27,430 --> 00:16:30,160 She'd known this customer as long as Naoki. 269 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,430 He'd take her for expensive sushi meals, 270 00:16:32,430 --> 00:16:33,720 and then on to her club, 271 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,670 where she'd be bought drinks all night. 272 00:16:36,542 --> 00:16:38,959 (soft music) 273 00:16:49,189 --> 00:16:51,910 (sings in foreign language) 274 00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:54,970 In a society where people find it hard to talk, 275 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:56,930 I found it strange to be in a bar, 276 00:16:56,930 --> 00:16:58,900 where Yoshie's job was to talk, 277 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:00,313 mainly to married men. 278 00:17:01,510 --> 00:17:04,260 The bar, another room with no windows 279 00:17:04,260 --> 00:17:07,483 felt like a release from a highly competitive world outside, 280 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,670 where it is totally acceptable to be drunk 281 00:17:10,670 --> 00:17:12,304 in order to unwind. 282 00:17:12,304 --> 00:17:15,971 (sings in foreign language) 283 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,473 But that must make you feel terrible. 284 00:18:08,719 --> 00:18:10,969 But how do you keep the strength to carry on? 285 00:18:18,323 --> 00:18:20,707 - [Interpreter] Because it's a job. 286 00:18:20,707 --> 00:18:23,790 (hairdryer swooshes) 287 00:18:34,690 --> 00:18:37,200 - [Sean] It seems like a relentless schedule of work. 288 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,040 After five hours of sleep they were up again 289 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,010 and off like clockwork. 290 00:18:41,010 --> 00:18:44,560 Naoki makes up for his small income by being househusband, 291 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:48,163 a difficult role for a 56-year-old Japanese man to accept. 292 00:18:53,540 --> 00:18:56,220 Each morning he must make Yoshie's breakfast 293 00:18:56,220 --> 00:18:58,603 and lunch box before doing the laundry. 294 00:18:59,620 --> 00:19:01,560 He told me she'd sometimes tease him 295 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,863 about his poorly paid job at the post office. 296 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,420 But he had nowhere else to go, 297 00:19:06,420 --> 00:19:07,920 almost totally reliant on her. 298 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,290 I can't help but noticing 299 00:19:49,290 --> 00:19:51,650 there was not physical contact between them. 300 00:19:53,980 --> 00:19:54,853 Kiss him goodbye. 301 00:19:56,611 --> 00:19:57,444 Kiss. 302 00:19:58,487 --> 00:20:00,737 (chuckles) 303 00:20:03,970 --> 00:20:05,173 Bye-bye. - Bye-bye. 304 00:20:06,380 --> 00:20:09,970 - [Sean] Today Yoshie works 15 hours in three jobs, 305 00:20:09,970 --> 00:20:12,320 Naoki just seven hours at the post office, 306 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,223 then back home to do the house work and get the dinner on. 307 00:20:23,612 --> 00:20:25,430 Do you enjoy being with her? 308 00:20:25,430 --> 00:20:27,470 - I don't want to be homeless 309 00:20:27,470 --> 00:20:31,883 and I need a partner. 310 00:20:32,940 --> 00:20:34,670 - [Sean] She's stranded you in a way. 311 00:20:34,670 --> 00:20:39,670 - Yeah, she gave me job (chuckles) to survive. 312 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,230 - [Sean] Do you think she needs you? 313 00:20:44,230 --> 00:20:46,000 Do you keep her strength? 314 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,870 - Me, maybe I am not confident. 315 00:20:49,870 --> 00:20:54,870 I have not confident to give her this kind of strength. 316 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,690 - [Sean] Naoki said they'd get an hour together between jobs 317 00:21:00,690 --> 00:21:03,160 which they'd usually spend sleeping. 318 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,090 Since starting at the post office, 319 00:21:05,090 --> 00:21:08,863 he said they'd lost an important part of their relationship. 320 00:21:10,930 --> 00:21:12,830 - These days I have no sex (chuckles). 321 00:21:17,510 --> 00:21:18,710 Doesn't work (chuckles). 322 00:21:19,830 --> 00:21:20,663 Broken. 323 00:21:21,980 --> 00:21:22,813 - [Sean] Oh dear me. 324 00:21:22,813 --> 00:21:27,300 - Depressing the mental disease, like this. 325 00:21:27,300 --> 00:21:29,267 Doesn't work, my baby (chuckles). 326 00:21:30,690 --> 00:21:33,890 - [Sean] Must be difficult for you if you're so young, 327 00:21:33,890 --> 00:21:36,737 when he was your age, he was very active. 328 00:21:43,550 --> 00:21:48,416 - If I have more kind of stable life, 329 00:21:48,416 --> 00:21:51,823 I can do the sex, having sex, maybe. 330 00:21:53,910 --> 00:21:56,170 - [Sean] She said she doesn't need sex. 331 00:21:56,170 --> 00:22:00,063 - She has to say in front of your camera. 332 00:22:02,630 --> 00:22:03,463 She's young. 333 00:22:04,650 --> 00:22:05,793 But I'm afraid. 334 00:22:07,430 --> 00:22:09,920 Yes, she loves me, but she needs, 335 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,870 sometimes she needed a friend of the sex. 336 00:22:13,870 --> 00:22:16,330 I'm afraid, I worry about 337 00:22:16,330 --> 00:22:18,033 having a new boyfriend. 338 00:22:20,190 --> 00:22:21,809 - [Sean] Tried Viagra? 339 00:22:21,809 --> 00:22:22,642 - [Naoki] Yoshie? 340 00:22:22,642 --> 00:22:24,783 No. 341 00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:50,230 - [Sean] So, you're ready for work? 342 00:22:50,230 --> 00:22:52,533 - I have to go sushi shop. 343 00:22:53,450 --> 00:22:54,283 - [Sean] Soon? 344 00:22:54,283 --> 00:22:55,250 - Soon. 345 00:22:55,250 --> 00:22:56,640 - [Sean] To meet the customer? 346 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:57,473 - Yes. 347 00:22:59,110 --> 00:23:01,883 He said I envy you. 348 00:23:06,210 --> 00:23:07,510 - [Sean] I don't think so. 349 00:23:14,170 --> 00:23:15,953 Tonight's a busy night? 350 00:23:15,953 --> 00:23:16,786 - No. 351 00:23:16,786 --> 00:23:17,619 - [Sean] Quiet? 352 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,389 - Yes. 353 00:23:21,389 --> 00:23:23,280 - [Sean] What time are you finishing? 354 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,113 - Twelve. 355 00:23:27,050 --> 00:23:28,803 - [Sean] Okay, see you later. 356 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,470 Have a nice night. 357 00:23:31,470 --> 00:23:32,529 - See you later. 358 00:23:32,529 --> 00:23:34,446 - [Sean] See you later. 359 00:23:35,450 --> 00:23:38,573 Naoki said he'd never talk so openly with Yoshie. 360 00:23:38,573 --> 00:23:40,603 Normally she doesn't like to talk. 361 00:23:41,770 --> 00:23:43,390 He said he could never be sure 362 00:23:43,390 --> 00:23:45,247 what she was thinking. 363 00:23:45,247 --> 00:23:47,747 (cars rumble) 364 00:23:53,260 --> 00:23:58,260 - My life, when I have a wife, I talk, talk, talk. 365 00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,513 - [Sean] Really? 366 00:23:59,513 --> 00:24:00,346 - Yeah. 367 00:24:00,346 --> 00:24:01,477 - [Sean] And this life no talk? 368 00:24:02,410 --> 00:24:05,913 - Yoshie dislike the talking. 369 00:24:07,650 --> 00:24:11,980 She told me, Noisy, shut up, like this. 370 00:24:11,980 --> 00:24:13,043 I love talking. 371 00:24:18,710 --> 00:24:20,810 - [Sean] Why is she with you do you think? 372 00:24:22,094 --> 00:24:25,408 - I don't know. 373 00:24:25,408 --> 00:24:30,408 I am able to say, it not my speaking. 374 00:24:33,110 --> 00:24:34,843 Maybe I'm useful. 375 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,433 Maybe she loves me. 376 00:24:39,980 --> 00:24:44,980 But she cannot allow me my income. 377 00:24:48,630 --> 00:24:52,930 Everyday we have kind of the stress and struggle, and-- 378 00:24:52,930 --> 00:24:54,730 - [Sean] Does she blame you? 379 00:24:54,730 --> 00:24:57,232 - Yes, too much drink every day. 380 00:24:57,232 --> 00:25:01,210 She was tired, she is tired. 381 00:25:01,210 --> 00:25:04,070 Maybe tonight, after drinking, 382 00:25:04,070 --> 00:25:09,070 she became very strong to express her true mind this time. 383 00:25:12,860 --> 00:25:15,360 (Sean laughs) 384 00:26:26,981 --> 00:26:28,231 - [Yoshie] You. 385 00:29:16,250 --> 00:29:19,836 - Maybe I love her? 386 00:29:19,836 --> 00:29:22,169 - [Sean] Maybe you love her? 387 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:35,433 - [Naoki] Sleep. 388 00:29:50,105 --> 00:29:52,434 (coins clink) 389 00:29:52,434 --> 00:29:56,184 (speaks in foreign language) 390 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,203 - [Robotic Voice] Compliance. 391 00:30:27,490 --> 00:30:28,694 - [Sean] What's your favourite word? 392 00:30:28,694 --> 00:30:31,556 - [Robotic Voice] Compliance. 393 00:30:31,556 --> 00:30:32,750 Compliance. 394 00:30:32,750 --> 00:30:34,050 - [Sean] Compliance to when he touches you 395 00:30:34,050 --> 00:30:35,260 and says, Did you shave today? 396 00:30:35,260 --> 00:30:36,550 - Yes, yes, before, 397 00:30:37,530 --> 00:30:38,993 out of the compliance. 398 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,740 - [Sean] You've got to be well shaved every day. 399 00:30:41,740 --> 00:30:42,820 - Yes. 400 00:30:42,820 --> 00:30:44,486 I touch here. 401 00:30:44,486 --> 00:30:45,319 Who? 402 00:30:46,940 --> 00:30:47,940 Hi, Mister Sato-san, 403 00:30:50,056 --> 00:30:51,283 you have to shave. 404 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,470 Fuck you, I wanted say, Fuck you, it's my business. 405 00:30:56,470 --> 00:30:58,076 But I couldn't say. 406 00:30:58,076 --> 00:30:58,909 - [Sean] What did you then say? 407 00:30:58,909 --> 00:31:00,758 - I'm afraid of fire. 408 00:31:00,758 --> 00:31:01,780 - [Sean] What did you say? 409 00:31:01,780 --> 00:31:02,630 - Yes (chuckles). 410 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,690 Yes, man, I will. 411 00:31:08,530 --> 00:31:09,700 - [Sean] Oh dear. 412 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:11,383 - Yeah, it's miserable. 413 00:31:14,020 --> 00:31:14,853 I'll show you. 414 00:31:16,427 --> 00:31:17,260 (speaks in foreign language) 415 00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:18,740 Broken. 416 00:31:18,740 --> 00:31:19,573 - [Sean] By her. 417 00:31:21,290 --> 00:31:25,510 - You can take this one and this one and you can repair 418 00:31:25,510 --> 00:31:29,343 and after like this, different colour. 419 00:31:31,180 --> 00:31:33,170 - [Sean] I was thinking, No, no! 420 00:31:33,170 --> 00:31:35,040 The glasses are expensive, expensive, 421 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:36,194 and over 50 (mumbles), like-- 422 00:31:36,194 --> 00:31:38,277 (laughs) 423 00:31:48,047 --> 00:31:49,130 - She laughs! 424 00:31:50,014 --> 00:31:50,931 Your fault! 425 00:31:52,367 --> 00:31:54,647 Your fault, you know? 426 00:31:54,647 --> 00:31:57,400 - [Sean] Oh, could you give me one of those once? 427 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:01,350 - [Naoki] This one, no, this one. 428 00:32:01,350 --> 00:32:04,210 - [Sean] Each evening Yoshie takes her calm down pill, 429 00:32:04,210 --> 00:32:07,732 an antidepressant that guarantees a good six-hour sleep. 430 00:32:07,732 --> 00:32:10,120 (Yoshie speaks in foreign language) 431 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,643 How long does it take to work? 432 00:32:13,250 --> 00:32:14,830 She said she wasn't alone. 433 00:32:14,830 --> 00:32:17,543 Many of her friends and work colleagues do the same. 434 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,873 Within minutes Yoshie went into a mad eating frenzy. 435 00:32:32,420 --> 00:32:33,770 Naoki seemed to used to it. 436 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,573 He said the pill also causes memory loss. 437 00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:42,383 She doesn't remember anything in the morning. 438 00:33:06,650 --> 00:33:09,259 It's a funny situation in here. 439 00:33:09,259 --> 00:33:10,092 - Yeah. 440 00:33:12,620 --> 00:33:16,593 We cannot get the special treat from government, cannot get. 441 00:33:18,610 --> 00:33:23,180 If we are European, the nation give me 442 00:33:24,599 --> 00:33:27,333 a kind of a welfare, kind of a mental. 443 00:33:28,570 --> 00:33:31,080 - [Sean] Psychologists, psychiatrists support. 444 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,740 - So many supports. 445 00:33:32,740 --> 00:33:34,440 - They don't really exist here, right? 446 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,333 - Yeah, yeah. 447 00:33:36,970 --> 00:33:39,913 So, firstly, I have to protect her. 448 00:33:41,290 --> 00:33:44,853 But I'm afraid she has a kind of disease, 449 00:33:45,730 --> 00:33:50,333 so I can't to separate, I can't leave her. 450 00:33:51,230 --> 00:33:56,230 Who does look after her? 451 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,090 I'm happy you interview me. 452 00:34:09,090 --> 00:34:13,520 So if possible, you report all over the world. 453 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:14,563 This is Japan. 454 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:18,453 It's a part of Japan. 455 00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:20,553 It's true. 456 00:34:21,754 --> 00:34:23,353 - [Sean] Especially, poor. 457 00:34:23,353 --> 00:34:24,819 - [Naoki] Not special poor. 458 00:34:24,819 --> 00:34:28,307 This is usual poor in Japan (chuckles). 459 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,420 - [Sean] Japan prided itself 460 00:34:48,420 --> 00:34:51,703 on being the most egalitarian society in the world. 461 00:34:51,703 --> 00:34:53,940 But the gap between rich and poor 462 00:34:53,940 --> 00:34:55,603 has never been wider than today. 463 00:35:01,190 --> 00:35:03,680 What happens now? 464 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,897 - The machine takes out the husk. 465 00:35:18,740 --> 00:35:21,400 - [Sean] Naoki's generation was part of an economic army 466 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,553 to rebuild this place after the war, making it rich. 467 00:35:25,910 --> 00:35:28,770 But after the economy crashed in the early 1990s, 468 00:35:28,770 --> 00:35:30,200 there was no safety net 469 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,173 for the thousands who became homeless. 470 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:39,150 Naoki says he would be with them 471 00:35:39,150 --> 00:35:40,350 if it wasn't for Yoshie. 472 00:35:56,967 --> 00:36:00,531 - [Naoki] This is student, 10,000 people. 473 00:36:00,531 --> 00:36:01,864 - [Sean] 10,000? 474 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,220 Occasionally Naoki would look at a political films, 475 00:36:06,220 --> 00:36:08,223 he'd helped make in the 1960s. 476 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,793 I was surprised by the scale of protest here. 477 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,570 A riot police. 478 00:36:14,570 --> 00:36:16,370 - [Naoki] Yeah, this is very strong. 479 00:36:17,887 --> 00:36:20,360 - [Sean] Did the police come and remove you? 480 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:21,830 - [Naoki] Yeah, yeah, yeah. 481 00:36:21,830 --> 00:36:22,890 - [Sean] Violently? 482 00:36:22,890 --> 00:36:23,873 - Yeah, usually. 483 00:36:24,903 --> 00:36:26,410 - [Sean] Did you hit them? 484 00:36:26,410 --> 00:36:28,637 - Yeah, they hit me. 485 00:36:28,637 --> 00:36:29,510 - [Sean] Did you hit them back? 486 00:36:29,510 --> 00:36:31,060 - So, I'm crazy now (chuckles). 487 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,837 Every night, we had demonstration with city (mumbles). 488 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,670 - [Sean] But the point of the demonstration 489 00:36:41,670 --> 00:36:44,010 was to ask the Americans to go home. 490 00:36:44,010 --> 00:36:45,179 - Yes. 491 00:36:45,179 --> 00:36:49,200 To stop the repair for Vietnam tank. 492 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:50,450 - [Sean] Oh, for Vietnam! 493 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,890 This was a stark contrast to Japan today, 494 00:36:57,890 --> 00:37:00,323 where everyone seems so scared and obedient. 495 00:37:03,530 --> 00:37:05,740 Allowing me to film his situation, 496 00:37:05,740 --> 00:37:09,755 seemed to be the only political act Naoki had left. 497 00:37:09,755 --> 00:37:11,588 - We're terrible poor. 498 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,223 New class, working poor. 499 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,440 - [Sean] I realise, Naoki and Yoshie 500 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,240 were part of the hidden underclass, called the new poor. 501 00:37:29,530 --> 00:37:33,120 Yoshie's three jobs net her 11,000 pounds a year. 502 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,963 Naoki get's less than half of that. 503 00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:40,000 When it was about survival, they clearly worked as a team. 504 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,720 But each month Yoshie would escape to her hometown, 505 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:45,530 causing tension between them. 506 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,850 - Next Sunday is memorial day 507 00:37:54,460 --> 00:37:55,973 in her hometown. 508 00:37:57,540 --> 00:37:58,610 - [Sean] Oh, next Sunday. 509 00:37:58,610 --> 00:37:59,710 - Next Sunday. 510 00:37:59,710 --> 00:38:00,810 - [Sean] Is she going home? 511 00:38:00,810 --> 00:38:01,870 - Yes. 512 00:38:01,870 --> 00:38:03,330 - [Sean] Should we go? 513 00:38:03,330 --> 00:38:05,880 - No, the family deny me. 514 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,170 - [Sean] Wow. 515 00:38:07,170 --> 00:38:08,330 So we can't go? 516 00:38:08,330 --> 00:38:09,460 - Yeah. 517 00:38:09,460 --> 00:38:11,430 - [Sean] Why the family deny him? 518 00:38:11,430 --> 00:38:12,869 - I don't know. 519 00:38:12,869 --> 00:38:14,250 (chuckles) 520 00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:16,523 They hate my experiences. 521 00:38:17,528 --> 00:38:18,380 - [Sean] What experiences? 522 00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:20,820 Oh, the divorce? - So many divorces. 523 00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:22,926 - [Sean] So, you're a black sheep. 524 00:38:22,926 --> 00:38:23,759 You're like a black sheep. 525 00:38:23,759 --> 00:38:25,342 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 526 00:38:41,845 --> 00:38:45,095 (bright, upbeat music) 527 00:38:48,939 --> 00:38:52,606 (sings in foreign language) 528 00:39:07,259 --> 00:39:10,510 - [Sean] Yoshie told me why Naoki feared meeting her father. 529 00:39:10,510 --> 00:39:12,800 Not only was he a true blue Conservative, 530 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,283 but they were the same age. 531 00:39:17,380 --> 00:39:19,455 She said her parents knew of their relationship 532 00:39:19,455 --> 00:39:21,823 but preferred not to mention his name. 533 00:39:32,726 --> 00:39:34,001 - Natto. 534 00:39:34,001 --> 00:39:34,918 - I'll try. 535 00:39:37,315 --> 00:39:41,065 (speaks in foreign language) 536 00:39:49,450 --> 00:39:51,720 Look, he's moved away, it's dangerous. 537 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:52,553 - [Sean Voiceover] The Japanese love 538 00:39:52,553 --> 00:39:54,340 to give foreigners nattos. 539 00:39:54,340 --> 00:39:57,610 It's a traditional dish made from rotting soya beans. 540 00:39:57,610 --> 00:39:59,510 It was like eating a big ball of snot. 541 00:40:00,667 --> 00:40:02,162 - Beautiful. 542 00:40:02,162 --> 00:40:02,995 Beautiful. 543 00:40:04,829 --> 00:40:06,197 Beautiful. 544 00:40:06,197 --> 00:40:09,200 (people chuckle) 545 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,920 It felt like I was sitting in Naoki's place. 546 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,460 It was bizarre they could happily welcome me, the foreigner, 547 00:40:14,460 --> 00:40:15,383 but not Naoki. 548 00:41:19,338 --> 00:41:21,500 Yoshie was frustrated with Naoki. 549 00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:23,770 She said his fears of meeting her family 550 00:41:23,770 --> 00:41:26,423 meant their relationship would always be on the rocks. 551 00:41:26,423 --> 00:41:28,756 (dog barks) 552 00:41:32,860 --> 00:41:36,090 Yoshie's father didn't speak to me for most of my visit, 553 00:41:36,090 --> 00:41:37,900 but as I put my camera down, 554 00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:40,050 he asked me a very strange question. 555 00:41:40,050 --> 00:41:41,983 The price of Viagra in London. 556 00:41:44,350 --> 00:41:46,470 Maybe he and Naoki have more in common, 557 00:41:46,470 --> 00:41:48,950 than just being the same age. 558 00:41:48,950 --> 00:41:51,071 Thank you very much for having us, see you next time, yeah? 559 00:41:51,071 --> 00:41:54,821 (speaks in foreign language) 560 00:41:59,354 --> 00:42:01,437 (laughs) 561 00:42:37,711 --> 00:42:39,510 Why did you get jealous. 562 00:42:39,510 --> 00:42:40,793 - Because I need her. 563 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,950 Because here, it's not history, 564 00:42:46,950 --> 00:42:48,663 it's not alive, it's not, 565 00:42:49,630 --> 00:42:52,223 she is my life. 566 00:42:53,670 --> 00:42:58,670 Because maybe, you know, getting old. 567 00:43:00,857 --> 00:43:05,857 I have no plan to visit her hometown. 568 00:43:06,390 --> 00:43:07,223 - [Sean] Why? 569 00:43:08,250 --> 00:43:09,480 - I don't know. 570 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,350 It's kind of a decision. 571 00:43:11,350 --> 00:43:12,480 - [Sean] Why? 572 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,150 'Cause I think her father would accept you. 573 00:43:14,150 --> 00:43:15,950 He's very easy going. 574 00:43:15,950 --> 00:43:16,783 - No. 575 00:43:16,783 --> 00:43:20,603 Your opinion easy, not easy. 576 00:43:22,070 --> 00:43:24,163 Not easy, same age! 577 00:43:25,110 --> 00:43:27,540 - [Sean] It's difficult for you, but if you want to do it, 578 00:43:27,540 --> 00:43:30,233 you got to do it, otherwise don't do it. 579 00:43:33,940 --> 00:43:35,163 - No, I cannot. 580 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:47,940 If I had a daughter, 581 00:43:47,940 --> 00:43:52,047 I would say, Stop, that's fucking guy (chuckles). 582 00:43:54,110 --> 00:43:54,943 Rubbish. 583 00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,153 I knew. 584 00:44:03,795 --> 00:44:08,795 Who can recommend the Naoki? 585 00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:12,713 Nobody can. 586 00:44:13,950 --> 00:44:18,950 Nobody can recommend, get along together good with Naoki. 587 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:21,593 Nobody. 588 00:44:21,593 --> 00:44:22,426 - [Sean] Why? 589 00:44:22,426 --> 00:44:23,259 - I don't know. 590 00:44:25,529 --> 00:44:26,362 - [Sean] I do. 591 00:44:26,362 --> 00:44:29,007 - You do, just only you, you crazy (chuckles). 592 00:44:33,256 --> 00:44:38,256 People hates normally, people hate anarchism. 593 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:39,710 People hate the terrorists. 594 00:44:40,770 --> 00:44:42,953 Like that, it's common sense. 595 00:44:42,953 --> 00:44:44,620 - [Sean] You're not a terrorist. 596 00:44:44,620 --> 00:44:45,453 - No (chuckles). 597 00:44:47,983 --> 00:44:50,166 - [Sean] You're not an anarchist anymore. 598 00:44:50,166 --> 00:44:51,150 - Not anarchist. 599 00:44:51,150 --> 00:44:52,707 - [Sean] You're a postman. 600 00:44:52,707 --> 00:44:56,874 - Yeah (chuckles), yeah, postman. 601 00:45:02,809 --> 00:45:03,642 Part time. 602 00:45:11,893 --> 00:45:14,393 (clock rings) 603 00:46:06,860 --> 00:46:08,100 - [Sean] This was so far removed 604 00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:10,520 from the workplace I knew in Britain. 605 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,020 It was like Communism pretending to be Capitalism. 606 00:46:36,971 --> 00:46:38,500 (speaks in foreign language) 607 00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:41,060 I felt underneath the surface the fragility 608 00:46:41,060 --> 00:46:42,903 that no one wanted to acknowledge. 609 00:46:51,530 --> 00:46:53,677 - Someone, he (mumbles), 610 00:46:55,600 --> 00:47:00,413 sweater, he has disease, disease guy. 611 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:03,600 - [Sean] Very depressed. 612 00:47:04,532 --> 00:47:05,365 - Depressed. 613 00:47:05,365 --> 00:47:06,470 - [Sean] Is he recovered? 614 00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:10,523 - Maybe now, at the hospital. 615 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:13,980 He went to hospital, very big. 616 00:47:13,980 --> 00:47:15,650 - [Sean] So he was off work for a few months. 617 00:47:15,650 --> 00:47:17,993 - Yeah, something with the medicine. 618 00:47:18,943 --> 00:47:23,943 He gets, sometimes he doesn't wake up in the morning. 619 00:47:24,546 --> 00:47:25,591 - [Sean] So he never comes in. 620 00:47:25,591 --> 00:47:26,424 - Yeah. 621 00:47:26,424 --> 00:47:27,591 - [Sean] Shit. 622 00:47:29,557 --> 00:47:33,307 (speaks in foreign language) 623 00:48:03,352 --> 00:48:06,435 (soft pensive music) 624 00:48:12,230 --> 00:48:14,723 Naoki told me he'd been bullied at work too. 625 00:48:15,890 --> 00:48:18,420 He tried talking to Yoshie about it, 626 00:48:18,420 --> 00:48:21,153 but she was too tired listening to everyone else. 627 00:48:22,269 --> 00:48:25,352 (soft pensive music) 628 00:48:35,070 --> 00:48:38,780 He introduced me to a workmate who'd got ill with stress 629 00:48:38,780 --> 00:48:41,053 and would spend his breaks sleeping. 630 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,900 This man would spend weekends in the mountains 631 00:48:47,900 --> 00:48:50,460 picking bags of sticky mushrooms 632 00:48:50,460 --> 00:48:52,123 and insist on giving them to us. 633 00:48:53,044 --> 00:48:56,127 (soft pensive music) 634 00:48:59,194 --> 00:49:03,260 As a Japanese saying goes, the nail that stands out 635 00:49:03,260 --> 00:49:04,740 must be hammered down. 636 00:49:06,468 --> 00:49:09,551 (soft pensive music) 637 00:49:19,066 --> 00:49:21,066 (sighs) 638 00:49:26,162 --> 00:49:29,383 - Tonight we will go to mushroom man. 639 00:49:31,100 --> 00:49:32,055 Promise. 640 00:49:32,055 --> 00:49:34,180 - [Sean] Oh my God. 641 00:49:34,180 --> 00:49:36,837 - I promised to meet the mushroom man. 642 00:49:37,986 --> 00:49:42,986 - [Sean] Okay. 643 00:49:58,789 --> 00:50:00,706 Oh, no, more mushrooms! 644 00:50:02,932 --> 00:50:04,177 Does he know it's there? 645 00:50:04,177 --> 00:50:05,010 - Nameko. 646 00:50:05,010 --> 00:50:07,439 - Tell him we started to call him mushroom man. 647 00:50:07,439 --> 00:50:09,689 (chuckles) 648 00:50:12,513 --> 00:50:14,596 (laughs) 649 00:50:20,510 --> 00:50:22,740 - [Sean] Oh, it's beautiful! 650 00:50:22,740 --> 00:50:23,983 Did you get it in the mountain? 651 00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,083 Wow, you picked it. 652 00:50:28,732 --> 00:50:29,815 Oh, wow, wow. 653 00:50:39,505 --> 00:50:43,255 (speaks in foreign language) 654 00:52:19,092 --> 00:52:20,842 - [Naoki] Burned out. 655 00:53:41,060 --> 00:53:43,020 - [Sean] I was worried about Naoki. 656 00:53:43,020 --> 00:53:44,950 He seemed isolated. 657 00:53:44,950 --> 00:53:47,593 I felt he and Yoshie were drifting further apart. 658 00:53:54,882 --> 00:53:56,083 - I will stop to argue. 659 00:53:56,978 --> 00:53:59,787 Because I'm afraid she retaliates. 660 00:53:59,787 --> 00:54:03,573 She has a place to run away. 661 00:54:05,255 --> 00:54:07,700 Her home, hometown. 662 00:54:07,700 --> 00:54:09,793 I have no, just here. 663 00:54:11,548 --> 00:54:15,760 Or she decide to fuck me away. 664 00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:16,593 I have to go. 665 00:54:18,820 --> 00:54:20,323 - [Sean] Where? 666 00:54:20,323 --> 00:54:21,373 - On the road, maybe. 667 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,283 I couldn't borrow. 668 00:54:26,020 --> 00:54:29,363 No bank, no friend, no home. 669 00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:35,610 So this is a way to go to homeless. 670 00:54:35,610 --> 00:54:37,070 - [Sean] One step to homeless. 671 00:54:37,070 --> 00:54:41,703 - Yeah, it's very near, my position is very, very close. 672 00:54:58,911 --> 00:55:02,110 - [Sean Voiceover] Naoki was desperate to talk. 673 00:55:02,110 --> 00:55:04,323 Yoshie was pretending nothing was wrong. 674 00:55:10,690 --> 00:55:13,623 I knew they'd hardly spoken a word for two weeks. 675 00:59:05,460 --> 00:59:06,710 It was stalemate at home. 676 00:59:08,010 --> 00:59:11,005 Naoki knew what he had to do 677 00:59:11,005 --> 00:59:13,588 (upbeat music) 678 00:59:18,035 --> 00:59:21,702 (sings in foreign language) 679 00:59:57,540 --> 00:59:59,890 Meeting the father is a big deal in Japan, 680 00:59:59,890 --> 01:00:01,740 especially when you are the same age. 681 01:00:03,230 --> 01:00:06,060 I'd heard about a Japanese custom called omiyage, 682 01:00:06,060 --> 01:00:09,250 the giving of a small gift when you visit someone's house. 683 01:00:09,250 --> 01:00:12,318 I'd brought something with me to help break the ice. 684 01:00:12,318 --> 01:00:17,318 (upbeat music) (sings in foreign language) 685 01:00:56,140 --> 01:00:58,130 I've chosen my omiyage carefully, 686 01:00:58,130 --> 01:00:59,923 something that both appreciate. 687 01:01:01,430 --> 01:01:04,713 - I was thinking of present to come and to bring you, 688 01:01:04,713 --> 01:01:06,735 can you translate? 689 01:01:06,735 --> 01:01:07,980 (speaks in foreign language) 690 01:01:07,980 --> 01:01:10,330 Chocolates were not appropriate. 691 01:01:10,330 --> 01:01:12,000 After the conversation we had last time, 692 01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:13,875 I found a really good gift for you. 693 01:01:13,875 --> 01:01:18,387 (speaks in foreign language) 694 01:01:18,387 --> 01:01:19,961 Special present. 695 01:01:19,961 --> 01:01:23,711 (speaks in foreign language) 696 01:01:27,307 --> 01:01:28,140 - Oh! 697 01:01:30,142 --> 01:01:31,481 - [Sean] He knows already! 698 01:01:31,481 --> 01:01:33,150 (chuckles) 699 01:01:33,150 --> 01:01:34,380 - Thank you, thank you! 700 01:01:36,290 --> 01:01:38,360 - [Sean] The Viagra had gotten Naoki and Yoshie's dad 701 01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:39,780 talking straight away. 702 01:01:47,528 --> 01:01:50,445 - His, he doesn't work, like Naoki. 703 01:01:51,460 --> 01:01:52,593 - [Sean] Oh, right, right. 704 01:02:15,361 --> 01:02:18,000 - [Interpreter] This neighbourhood (murmurs) around here, 705 01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:19,677 his family is very strange. 706 01:02:19,677 --> 01:02:21,760 (laughs) 707 01:02:23,405 --> 01:02:24,488 - [Sean] Why? 708 01:02:32,547 --> 01:02:33,597 - [Interpreter] He thinks it's important 709 01:02:33,597 --> 01:02:37,156 to make this with the family, openly talking about-- 710 01:02:37,156 --> 01:02:40,003 - Open, open, open. 711 01:02:57,250 --> 01:02:58,120 - [Sean] Family photo, ready? 712 01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:00,070 Now squeeze together! 713 01:03:00,070 --> 01:03:01,953 (speaks in foreign language) 714 01:03:01,953 --> 01:03:03,263 Squeeze together! 715 01:03:04,202 --> 01:03:07,210 (speaks in foreign language) 716 01:03:07,210 --> 01:03:08,310 Say cheese. 717 01:03:08,310 --> 01:03:09,143 - [All] Cheese! 718 01:03:10,683 --> 01:03:11,850 - [Sean] Okay. 719 01:03:17,449 --> 01:03:18,501 - Slippers! 720 01:03:18,501 --> 01:03:20,001 - [Sean] Slippers. 721 01:04:18,894 --> 01:04:22,144 (light cheerful music) 722 01:04:25,999 --> 01:04:29,666 (sings in foreign language) 723 01:04:37,330 --> 01:04:38,900 - [Sean] I was touched that Yoshie's father 724 01:04:38,900 --> 01:04:40,073 was so accepting. 725 01:04:40,910 --> 01:04:43,083 He even offered to be my Japanese dad. 726 01:04:44,740 --> 01:04:48,343 In the end, both Naomi and I had found a family in Japan. 727 01:04:49,717 --> 01:04:53,384 (sings in foreign language) 728 01:04:58,158 --> 01:05:03,158 (cheerful music) (sings in foreign language) 729 01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:20,070 - [Naoki] This is love. 730 01:05:22,990 --> 01:05:23,823 - [Sean] Is this love? 731 01:05:23,823 --> 01:05:24,656 This must be love. 732 01:05:24,656 --> 01:05:26,010 - Must be love, yeah. 733 01:05:26,010 --> 01:05:27,913 - [Sean] If you're doing all of this, yeah. 734 01:05:29,392 --> 01:05:31,278 - Love is war. 735 01:05:31,278 --> 01:05:32,238 Love is war. 736 01:05:32,238 --> 01:05:33,071 - [Sean] Yeah. 737 01:05:33,071 --> 01:05:33,904 - [Naoki] Not peace. 738 01:05:33,904 --> 01:05:34,737 - [Sean] Yeah. 739 01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:37,890 - Killing each other. 740 01:05:39,910 --> 01:05:42,053 So I don't like that this way. 741 01:05:43,675 --> 01:05:45,953 I love peace. 742 01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:52,163 So if possible, I hide continually. 743 01:05:54,231 --> 01:05:56,270 I'm like shadow. 744 01:05:56,270 --> 01:05:57,570 - [Sean] Stay in the shadow. 745 01:05:57,570 --> 01:05:58,720 - Yeah. 746 01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:03,720 But you, you like it, 747 01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:07,960 broken my shadow (chuckles). 748 01:06:12,860 --> 01:06:13,693 - [Sean] Sorry. 749 01:06:17,470 --> 01:06:18,770 I think it's good, though. 750 01:06:20,060 --> 01:06:20,893 Good. 751 01:06:23,441 --> 01:06:26,191 (cheerful music) 752 01:06:30,697 --> 01:06:34,447 (sings in foreign language)