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...careers. "I made the first movie as an obscure TV director," says Katsuyuki Motohiro. "Next thing I knew, I was one of the hottest movie directors in the country." Motohiro is back behind the camera for the sequel, as are all of the original film's screenwriters and producers. Also present for encores is the cast, including actor and singer Yuji Oda in the starring role as Aoshima, the boyishly handsome detective. With a bigger budget, a handful of new faces (including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's son Kotaro playing a police-department surveillance expert) and the most extensive domestic...
...retired from the role. For the new production, General Manager Rudolf Bing suggested several European designers, including Cecil Beaton, but Patron Starr would have none of them, personally went to Japan and brought back two experts: Yoshio Aoyama of Tokyo's Kabukiza Theater as director and Stage Designer Motohiro Nagasaka for sets and costumes. Between them, they stripped Butterfly of all its sukiyaki-styled stage business, painted it in subdued colors ("to express inner harmonies and conflicts"), dressed the actors in gorgeously detailed costumes hand-sewn in Japan. They also added authentic dramatic touches...
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