Word: mori
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...highest level scrambled to calm the passions?but with little effect. All week long the phone lines between Tokyo and Washington buzzed with American apologies?from President George W. Bush and a host of senior officials. But the man at the other end of the line, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, himself is lacking credibility. "He is beyond contempt," says Yoshifumi Oshita, 26, a graduate of the Uwajima Fisheries High School. "I want the Japanese government to make a proper complaint to America but I don't think Mori...
...Mori?bumbling, indecisive and remote?has seen his approval rate drop below 16%, and that was before the notoriety he gained from his refusal to cut short a golf round to come back to Tokyo to deal with the Ehime Maru accident. Calls for his resignation are ricocheting around the Diet office buildings in Tokyo. Mori is scheduled to journey to the U.S. to meet President Bush in early March, a visit that has been hastily moved ahead because of the submarine accident. But, says Midori Matsushima, a Diet member from the Mori faction of the Liberal Democratic Party...
Beat goes through his paces with the photographer, phlegmatically following his directions. "Oh, and he doesn't write screenplays either," stage-whispers Mori. It turns out Beat scribbles madly in journals over the course of a year, charting out in hieroglyphic scrawls the structure of his films. Then, in a series of meetings, he reviews the journals and explains what he wants to his staff. They chart out a script. He shoots his films sequentially, and usually takes just one shot per scene. "The movie changes as we go along," says Mori. In the film Sonatine, the actor Ren Osugi...
...people who collaborate with Beat ever really know what he thinks of their work. He edits his own films, and rather than re-shoot a scene he doesn't like, he'll cut it out entirely. "It can be scary," says Mori. After the photo shoot, Beat hangs around for a few minutes to chat. He starts to talk about his next project, which will be a love story, something romantic that will give more prominent screen time to women, who typically have only cameo roles in his films. Despite being married for 23 years and having two kids, Beat...
...going to get irritable," one of them predicts. Beat shows up right on time. He quickly changes into a sweater, introduces himself to the photographer and carefully looks over the cameras and the light meters and the flashes. Even here, he is in charge. "You know," says Masayuki Mori, the producer of his films, who is watching the shoot, "he doesn't really write his own books." Beat's impatience is legendary; he can't slow down long enough to put pen to paper. Mori describes his writing process as something akin to dictation...