Glamoroso!
(11) The High Society Of Tokyo
Joichi Ito comes from aristocratic stock. He grew up in L.A., his godfather was the late, great LSD-evangelist Timothy Leary, and he made his name as a tech wizard running a search engine company. Yet he simply had to relocate from L.A. to Tokyo: “I couldn’t bear being away from Japanese food any longer.”
In Tokyo, the desires of luxury take on a different shape. Every scrap of private space is hard-won. The film features billionaire Akira Mori, a swordsman in his spare time and owner of a sumo academy; software billionaire Masayoshi Son, a Korean immigrant who became Japan’s richest man; fashion queen Hanae Mori, who invites us for a Japanese dinner at her home; and Norio Ohga, head of Sony, conducting the Sony corporate symphony orchestra. We go grocery shopping with the prime minister’s daughter, Makiko Tanaka, and celebrate the wedding of Tokyo’s fish-market king, Takeshi Kobayashi, and his new bride. A film about Yen and Zen, Sumo and Style — and the biggest fish market in the world
* Original German title: Mondän!
In Tokyo, the desires of luxury take on a different shape. Every scrap of private space is hard-won. The film features billionaire Akira Mori, a swordsman in his spare time and owner of a sumo academy; software billionaire Masayoshi Son, a Korean immigrant who became Japan’s richest man; fashion queen Hanae Mori, who invites us for a Japanese dinner at her home; and Norio Ohga, head of Sony, conducting the Sony corporate symphony orchestra. We go grocery shopping with the prime minister’s daughter, Makiko Tanaka, and celebrate the wedding of Tokyo’s fish-market king, Takeshi Kobayashi, and his new bride. A film about Yen and Zen, Sumo and Style — and the biggest fish market in the world
* Original German title: Mondän!
Facts
The Mondän! (Glamoroso!) series was nominated for the national Adolf-Grimme-Prize in 2000
First aired 21st November1999, 22.30 pm on ZDF
1,67 million viewers, 8,8 % market share
The Mondän! series had unbelievable 67 reruns between 1998 and 2011.
Credits
Written and directed by
Petra Höfer
Freddie Röckenhaus
Francesca D‘Amicis
Produced by:
Petra Höfer
Freddie Röckenhaus
Producers:
Roland Hagenberg
Karl Neubert
Ralf Hoppe
DOP:
Barnie Beckschulte
Editing:
Jörg Wegner
Editor at ZDF:
Peter Arens
A colourFIELD production, commissioned by ZDF
