Hey, who is "An Insider's View?" Author: honcho13-503-865907 from United States 2 June 2014
Contact me - Mark Hobart. Maybe we know each other. I was stationed at Atsugi 1974-79.
Likewise, I played an extra in this movie in 1978. We filmed in Tokyo at a Shrine and at a sound stage in Tokyo. There was a replica of a ship. Richard Boone (Commodore Perry) was a total grouch and very dictatorial towards the director. I recall on the sound stage, he kept messing his lines up and then suddenly started YELLING that he wanted everybody out except those in the scene and the director. I mean, he lost it. By this time, the guy was pretty old and looked even worse. Anyhow, we were there 4 days if I recall. And like the other reviewer wrote, we got about %40 a day and stayed at the Sanno Hotel which at that time was located in Akasaka. Now the Sanno is in Hiroo. The scenes in Japan were in 78, but the movie had a release delay. It was a terrible movie. The production company was "Rankin Bass" and they went bankrupt a few years later. Ironically, I am now living in Japan and do quite a bot of work in TC commercials and other media. I recently starred as Sir Thomas Lipton for Lipton Tea Japan. Two weeks shooting in Darjeeling, India. Here is the link to the varied versions. The 15 and 30 seconds versions were for TV the longer two for various promotions and tea fairs around Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMWrmay_UOwvNZGp59TbQiw?gl=US
https://www.sirthomaslipton.jp
Contact me - Mark Hobart. Maybe we know each other. I was stationed at Atsugi 1974-79.
Likewise, I played an extra in this movie in 1978. We filmed in Tokyo at a Shrine and at a sound stage in Tokyo. There was a replica of a ship. Richard Boone (Commodore Perry) was a total grouch and very dictatorial towards the director. I recall on the sound stage, he kept messing his lines up and then suddenly started YELLING that he wanted everybody out except those in the scene and the director. I mean, he lost it. By this time, the guy was pretty old and looked even worse. Anyhow, we were there 4 days if I recall. And like the other reviewer wrote, we got about %40 a day and stayed at the Sanno Hotel which at that time was located in Akasaka. Now the Sanno is in Hiroo. The scenes in Japan were in 78, but the movie had a release delay. It was a terrible movie. The production company was "Rankin Bass" and they went bankrupt a few years later. Ironically, I am now living in Japan and do quite a bot of work in TC commercials and other media. I recently starred as Sir Thomas Lipton for Lipton Tea Japan. Two weeks shooting in Darjeeling, India. Here is the link to the varied versions. The 15 and 30 seconds versions were for TV the longer two for various promotions and tea fairs around Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMWrmay_UOwvNZGp59TbQiw?gl=US
https://www.sirthomaslipton.jp