In the pre-internet days, without the distributor, there wasn’t much way to check in on the film’s afterlife, she explained. They begin a relationship and, with some reluctance, she joins his band covering American hits. Although Kuzui wrote the screenplay with her friend Lynn Grossman, “Tokyo Pop” was made with a mostly Japanese crew — unusual at the time for any American director, let alone a woman. “Foreigners in Japan — they were not held to, and they still aren’t held to, exactly the same rules that Japanese people follow,” Kuzui said. If she was going to be successful as a director, she felt, it couldn’t be with that sort of advantage.

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Persons: ”, Kaz Kuzui, Hamilton, Yutaka Tadokoro, Kuzui, Lynn Grossman, “, she’s, Japan —, ” Kuzui Organizations: Blockbuster, Tokyo, Foreigners Locations: Great Neck, N.Y, Japanese, Wendy, New York, Japan