There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaAmericans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaPlaying Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaHalf my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa