Hunting Tigers (1988)

October 1987 American filmmaker Steven Okazaki is making a documentary about laureated japanese author Kenzaburo Oe but all goes wrong when he finds out that due to mistranslated facts the subject of his film has only one day to spare before leaving the country During their brief interview Mr Kenzaburo affirms that the new generation of japanese artists are spoiled unoriginal and too influenced by Western culture so having a japanese film crew rented for four more days Steven decides to roam the streets of Tokyo filming the lives of the japanese emergent underdog artists trying to make some sense of Mr Oes statement