The first episode covering Japan was on last night, very light as I had expected but also annoying, virtually every film covered has been available in the UK for several years, the interviews again were too light and totally uninformative.

I realise the show hasn't been produced for people like us but I don't know if it will attract anyone to watching Asian cinema who isn't already interested.

Nice to see Miyazaki and Oshii though.

The docs accompanying the series have fared better and been enlightening and entertaining, one covered the length of Japan using various trains from the ultra fast bullet to the pondorous old steam trains. Time was also spent at various stopping points giving a varied look at Japanese life.

Have you caught any of the programmes John?

Cheers Trev.