Japanese Wife Documentary

Go behind the scenes with talented visual artists, architects and musicians from Yayoi Kusama to Hayao Miyazaki. Art has long been held as sacred in Japan, from elegant silk-screen painting to intricate traditional woodblock prints. The visionaries in these documentaries all helped transform their chosen fields, leaving legacies that intrigue, delight and inspire. These films go beyond the work itself, giving you a fascinating look into the mind of each artist. Best of all, these documentaries are available to stream online.

Nobody knew Konishi was a travel agent, or what she was doing in Detroit Lakes, only that she was young, pretty, and far from home. The morning after she arrived in Bismarck, a man had seen her wandering around a landfill and offered help. Fargo: A city nearly miles east of Bismarck on the border of North Dakota and Minnesota, best known for a Coen brothers movie in which a car salesman hires two men to kidnap his own wife for ransom. Things go wrong things always go wrong in Coen brothers films and one of the men ends up killing the other with an ax after an argument about a Cutlass Ciera, but not before the ax victim buries the ransom in a briefcase in the snow. A story about Konishi emerged: Here was a woman who had traveled a very long way under the great misunderstanding that the movie Fargo was real. They labored over a pocket translator, but that only made things worse.

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And people will say the No. This may seem surprising in Japan, a country where the economy is currently humming along, and the unemployment rate is below 3 percent. But the shrinking economic opportunities stem from a larger trend that is global in nature: the rise of unsteady employment.