(11) The High Society Of Tokyo
Ioichi Ito is a son of aristocratic decend, he grew up and lived in L.A., his godfather is the late great LSD-proclaimer Timothy Leary, he is a tech wizzard and boss of a search engine company. Yet he simply needed to re-locate from L.A. to Tokyo: „I just couldn‘t stand it any longer to be far away from Japanese food.“
Desires of luxury is different in the metropolis of Tokyo. Every little peace of private and space is hard to get. The film is featuring billionaire Akira Mori, a sword fighter in his pastime, and owner of a sumo academy, software billionaire Masayoshi Son, a korean immigrant who made itto be Japan‘s richest man, fashion queen Hanae Mori is inviting for Japanese dinner to her home, and Norito Ohga, boss of Sony, is conducting the Sony corporate symhony orchestra, and we go shopping at the supermarket with the prime minister‘s daughter Makiko Tanaka, and we‘re celebrating the wedding ceremony of Tokyo‘s fishmarket-king Takeshi Kobayashi and his newely wed wife. A film about Yen and Zen, Sumo and Style, and the biggest fishmarket in the world.
* Original German title: Mondän!
Desires of luxury is different in the metropolis of Tokyo. Every little peace of private and space is hard to get. The film is featuring billionaire Akira Mori, a sword fighter in his pastime, and owner of a sumo academy, software billionaire Masayoshi Son, a korean immigrant who made itto be Japan‘s richest man, fashion queen Hanae Mori is inviting for Japanese dinner to her home, and Norito Ohga, boss of Sony, is conducting the Sony corporate symhony orchestra, and we go shopping at the supermarket with the prime minister‘s daughter Makiko Tanaka, and we‘re celebrating the wedding ceremony of Tokyo‘s fishmarket-king Takeshi Kobayashi and his newely wed wife. A film about Yen and Zen, Sumo and Style, and the biggest fishmarket in the world.
* Original German title: Mondän!
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.
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