The last of four films
Written and narrated by Harriet Crawley
Seiji and Chako Hatakeyama 'Don't start collecting. Once you acquire the good things, the more you want. It's like opium.'
Seiji Hatakeyama did not listen to the advice of his father, and he and his wife have spent a lifetime buying fine Oriental art. Seiji, descended from a noble Samurai family, is the wealthy president of an industrial corporation. Yet, unlike a Western collector, he devotes himself to learning the ancient skills of the artists whose work he has collected. Film cameraman STUART WYLD Film editor ANDREW JOHNSTON Producer KEITH SHEATHER BBC Bristol