I arrived in Tokyo last week but due to the sensory overload this city imposes on the brain, particularly on a geek’s brain, I needed some time to contemplate (read: process) my impressions before writing anything about it.
Let me start by saying that I feel utterly stupid, by now, for not having visited Japan earlier. My aunt is Japanese; through her I got to watch “Nauscaä of the Valley of the Wind” (in Japanese, w/o subtitles), when I was 11 years old, in 1985, the year after the movie came out. The images never left my head and I believe they were part of the reason I ended up pursuing a career in film.