Documentaries about countries by journalist and TV host Vladimir Pozner are intelligent with serious approach of researching where tell history, traditions, culture and take interviews of famous, significant and amazing citizens. I was in addict watching of episode by episode on America, France, Germany, England. I was waiting every part on Israel, Spain on TV. Then author combined in one countries of Scandinavia, which couldn’t tell for necessity. Excitement to filming on Japan was until reading of interviews with author where he was expressing personal prejudices that he didn’t wish to do these series, because doesn’t understand Japan.
In the first of eight episodes I had a supposition, which became a conclusion in that Vladimir Pozner arrived without background knowledge about country as it was in previous films. TV host doesn’t make usual behind look and grabs common topics, which can be matured as in previous documentaries and slightly as it was on sumo in few words of two sportsmen and fact on holding of child in hands. Film willn’t enlighten in story and things as throwing of rice. A spectator without knowledge on samurais willn’t get more on them. Pozner in intro of each episode quotes as he calls “Samurai’s Code of Honor” on which author thinks that modern Japanese people are similar, but he misleads as misinform audience in title. No common guide on becoming of samurai. Multiple books were written, which are different in approach and book’s purpose could be for province. Pozner reveals unprofessionalism by considering himself as samurai by one phrase from one of these books. I know a source and can say that living in luxury Pozner isn’t a samurai. He and accompanying in every documentary Ivan Urgant are two Russian tourists what softly means a disrespect to unknown culture. A Russian snob and patterning Russian savage. Urgant is a dropdown in high culture stage of films in which I want to have editions with all cut scenes with him. It is shame to stay near at him due of his intolerance, a behavior in acceptance in his motherland. I would be depart and lock him in Russia for actions, which he blatantly dares near of Italian princesses. Urgant allowed using of pejorative expression to nations before as once in films on Italy. There can define as rudeness when in Japan he expressed hate in giving an offensive word to Americans, which he said in discussing with Pozner about bombing Japan. I suppose Urgant heard about Pearl Harbor, but he doesn’t want to mention it. Perhaps, he didn’t and don’t want to know about imperialistic ambitions by conquering Korea and invasion in China with details of inhuman acts as in Nanjing. I would be remove a scene, but the author joined to degradation of personality in this documentary as will a useful conversation about his sex life. I expressed “Gaijin” on Urgant in his dinner with Japanese family, which was in a house of the third man in adventure who is a guide Satoshi Yoshida. His presence was a pleasure to hear in excellent Russian curious and splendid things about Japan. Satoshi was interesting as a personality. Every documentary had multiple people in interview, which limited in The Other Side of Kimono and it corroborates weakness of researching.
There were things of top intelligence level. Objective reasoning on nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which view I support at all. It was interesting to learn about Japanese education with which journalist compared the Soviet and I share that’s view too. Look in centuries on Japanese houses, who were ninjas, a little bit of tea ceremony and not much, but not bad on kabuki theatre. Beautiful of film in great of spoiled.
Pozner and Urgant
are two Russian tourists as I aforementioned. The last person usually appears in
documentaries for few episodes in beginning and then he absents, because TV job,
but he is in big time in Japanese adventure. Two hosts in conversations, which
don’t relate to Japan or it’s idle chattering. Vladimir Pozner was exposing Russian
snob before as it was, for example, in one read his view about film, which I
don’t recall a title where he calls it a great and everybody who disagree with
it is primitive or something equal to it. He asks Satoshi about manga reading.
Japanese says that he and his son are liking to use it. Backstage commentary of
the author that he would resume that these people with limited interests if it
was an individual case on loving of manga, but he doesn’t reason it, because
manga popular in Japan. I can agree that reading of these comics can be noxious
for people. They willn’t wish to read text books, but Vladimir Pozner’s view on
manga is strict non-acceptance without learning of it. His questions more attack
of people liking it for goal of negative verdict. Journalist criticizes kabuki
theatre, because he can’t understand it. I don’t like to define characteristics
in nations, but that man considers himself as Frenchman and evades that he is a
Russian despite Pozner denies existence of freedom and “absolute happiness”,
which are definitions for that you are talking with Russian as it is Vladimir Pozner in full.
In person, I don’t share concern of the author on reducing of population of the island country, which is overpopulated.
Sponsors were in previous documentaries, but in moment and maybe in two documentary series while
three episodes of The Other Side of Kimono have large parts of recommendations
on Lexus and several minutes of privileges of using of AEROFLOT (No thanks! I
prefer something of capitalistic.), which in scene of conversation between
Pozner and airport receptionist where journalist offers a standard Russian
awkwardness by fly in Japan with him where obviously he isn’t serious and it makes
uncomfortable for sitting woman in this idle talk.
Almost every Pozner’s documentary is a colossal revealing about narrating country. I knew limited on Japan. I got more information as a great time with series of journey documentaries with personally pleasant hosts Joanna Lumley and Guy Martin.
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