Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

If you're famous, you're not free.

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.