fury. dang. >> usha vance. >> zapeta-calil chop. bye bye. americana i'm out of town. >> ken howery. oh! oh oh. marc stewart. oh, my

oh! mount tambora i pity the salaryman. >> tokyo's willing cog in an enormous machine requiring long hours, low pay, total dedication. and sometimes what's called karoshi death by overwork. here, in a society of tight spaces and many expectations, the pressure's on to keep up appearances, to do what's expected, to not let the interior life become exterior. but at night things are different.

and i took a walk through this beautiful world. >> felt the cool rain on my shoulder. >> found something good in this. beautiful world. i felt the rain getting colder. jun xiang. la la la la. sha la la la la la sha la la la la. sha la la la la la la.

>> what do you need to know about tokyo? deep, deep waters. the first time i came here, it was like it was a transformative experience. it was powerful and violent experience. it was as if it was just like taking acid for the first time. meaning? what do i do now? i see the whole world in a different way. um, i often compare the experience of going to japan for the first time and coming to tokyo for the first time to what? what eric clapton and pete townshend must have gone through. uh, the reigning guitar gods of of of england. what they must have gone

through the week that jimi hendrix came to town. you hear about it, you go see it. a whole a window opens up and a whole new thing. and you think, what does this mean? what do i have left to say? what do i do now? that welcome to tokyo. you are not invited. this is the other tokyo. 12 hour flight and i'm baked. no sleep. might as well must go out.

the kabukicho district near my hotel has the advantage of being where the subterranean life, the repressed ids of the japanese male and some females too, comes out to play. joining me is japanese film producer and production manager masa kokubo. always a good sign when protective chains separate entertainers from the soon to be entertained, right? prepare yourself for the greatest show in the history of entertainment. >> long time ago. in a bid to race in the priesthood in the old forms on the planet far away. qizan al-najjar.

>> what does it all mean?

for? the. >> no, no, it can't be over. not yet. no, but yet. yet it is with a series of chaste high fives, with the hard working performers. okay, i got to tell you, i've seen jimi hendrix now have you? i've seen janis joplin. i've seen david bowie, diamond dogs, i've seen colleen dewhurst and jason robards in moon for the misbegotten, directed by jose quintero on broadway. considered one of the greatest

productions ever in history, this was the greatest show i've ever seen in my life. it had it all. it was the greatest show in the history of entertainment. i don't understand it. i'm completely confused. there's like 100 people working on that show. millions of dollars worth of, like, robots and technology. how do they make money? >> well, one thing for sure about this area is that quite a lot of businesses, are unspoken, but governed by the yakuza. >> the yakuza, that's the fraternal organization prominent in the entertainment and financial services sector, as they say, who are said to, um, supervise things here in shinjuku, principally your arcades, your gambling, pachinko, adult entertainments, your porn shops and sex clubs, along with other ancillary services. >> but how much actual boning is going on in the sex district? generally speaking, it's more a field of dreams

than the actual act of sex. hostess cafes, for instance, where a lonely, overworked salaryman can find the attention of cute, seemingly adoring girls who find their every utterance fascinating. houthis to jane akre japan. so now hostess bar is i just want somebody to tell me i'm fantastic. oh, you're so interesting. your job is interesting. you are a very sexy man. i don't care what your wife says. i think you're really interesting. yeah. penetration. maybe by a q-tip in the ear, followed by a personal love spell. in this case, to make your tea taste better. beqaasem frederik pleitgen. okay. what is this place? what's happening here? >> oh, this is the. >> are these boys young boy? >> host clubs for. not for men, but for middle aged ladies who

are bored with the regular housewives life. >> oh, wait a minute. you got like, a million guys wandering around here looking to get. and they got a whole bunch of bored middle aged housewives coming in here, spending, spending quite a lot of money. why don't they go to the same club and somebody will actually have sex? >> uh, people don't like getting rejected, so they sort of, like, pay for their pleasure, and then they make you feel welcome. and maybe you can feel like, hmm, i'm not that bad. after talking to those girls or boys. >> that's the saddest thing i've ever heard. well, no. that's heartbreaking. dude, is the business of shinjuku dreams. >> it is more for the dream of doing so. which is never going to happen. >> really. >> all of this, i mean, it is a very enticing situation. i mean, look at this. wait a minute. she looks like she really likes me. look, she's got her tongue tucked up in the corner of her mouth. >> hey. which one? oh, no, that's a boy, though. oh, well. whatever.

>> golden gong gong. my favorite place to drink in tokyo. hundreds of micro sized bars, each different from the other, with their own micro crowd. i love it here. oh actually, i've never been here before. maybe i have, i don't know, this place is one of masa's favorites. bar albatros, a few seats, strong drinks. the definition of a hole in the wall. now, do people come from. come here. right from work. drink all night and then go back to work. >> what larry madowo.

oh, salaryman. salaryman. >> would a salaryman bring his wife here? >> oh, sorry. what? >> so look, in america, uh, the bartender is like a priest. >> so you come and talk to them. >> i can tell him all of my problems, and i could behave very badly. and he will never talk. ever. oh, this is the contract. >> okay? >> absolute confidentiality. do i have that kind of arrangement here? now? >> it doesn't. >> so so i have this implied guarantee of total security. >> yep. so if i came here with some dinosaur riding hoe in a bikini wasn't. >> it would be. >> i'm. ma. >> no, no, you don't have to ask. it's

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determined to track him down and see what the hell he was doing. these days, this great man is running a 14 seat sushi bar in the minato district of tokyo. his wife, naomi, is his only helper. >> i welcome the new place. >> thank you for coming. >> why did you do such a hard thing? >> this city, tokyo. this is the kind of the, uh, the mecca of the sushi. so i just want to be the sushi chef in tokyo. >> yasuda is a friend and my master in the sense that he's taught me pretty much everything i know about sushi over the years. he's a very, very interesting and complex man who constantly surprises. tony. >> this wasabi is one of the most expensive wasabi, so

i wait, wait, wait. finally, the this one goes to the discount box. then i bought this. >> it's very french of you. so many things separate yasuda san from other japanese sushi masters. the most noticeable is his hands. they're huge. look at the knuckles. enormous from years of pounding cement walls during repeated daily practice in kyokushin karate. he first trained and competed in tokyo. and when he came to new york, he continued to practice, often in underground bare knuckle matches where you fight until someone gets beaten to the ground. this style yasuda practiced, was about beating your opponent as quickly and as aggressively as possible. speed. every second is important. rice is getting cold, seaweed is

getting soggy. fish less than perfect temperature. look at his posture. a fighter's stance, distance. knowing the perfect spot to be moving in and out as needed. never out of position. timing. reacting to his customers pace of eating, their ever changing desires. always ready for the next move. most people who don't understand sushi will go to a sushi bar and say, oh, i had the best sushi last night. the fish was so fresh it was right out of the ocean. >> the freshest fish. there's no taste, just chewing, just heart. and people think, oh, freshness should be good. but it wasn't yasuda's menu changes constantly with what he finds in the market, and like thousands of other sushi chefs, he heads every day to tsukiji, tokyo's central fish market, for nearly 3000 tons of the

world's best seafood arrives every day. >> but unlike most others at his level, who arrive at 4 a.m. to cream off what they perceive as the best and freshest, yasuda san arrives later. he does not buy the ridiculously expensive otoro, the fatty belly meat of the bluefin tuna that people have been known to pay hundreds of dollars a pound for. instead, he buys tuna from the heads, using his knife skills to go for qualities that most others miss, removing every bit of sinew from what would otherwise be a difficult piece of meat until it's, well, perfect. and he cures the results, actually cures it. breaking down its molecular structure in a desirable way by freezing it quickly in a medical grade blast freezer, where it will stay for a week or longer at -82°c. he pioneered this technique years ago in new york, where, if you bothered to ask, he would have proudly told you that the

absolutely, unbelievably sublime piece of perfect sushi you were eating was frozen delicious. >> thank you very much. >> which is more important? the rice of the fish? or what percentage? rice? more important? uh, about 90%. >> wow. that's fish is the second ingredient. the main ingredient is rice. so my sushi is rice. >> yasuda. he's still trained, though his fighting days are over. he says he was tired of hurting people. he brings me to kamio dojo in asakusa to try and show me how his sushi technique and kyokushin karate are one in the same.

>> fish khuza'a. nobuyuki kamio, the master. >> nice. many other people ask me, what's the point between the karate and the sushi? but this movement is so much good for the. when i'm making a sushi because of the stance and the other different type of karate, the stance is a little bit more upper. so this karate is a stance is a little bit more deep. this so standing in front of the cutting board, a little bit of the deep stance and movement, deep stance and the body move this and watch the to the vision from the left to the

right right. focus move this move this. watch this and watch this. this is one of the key. so this karate is my sushi roots sir. fish. >> now in an official tournament, two minute round, two minute round. >> and the result you're looking for is points. >> points or a knockdown. right. but. to me, this fight. one minute fight, that's the most hardest. >> it's underground. you could just work on their legs for five, seven minutes to slow them down. then you go in.

>> yes and no compromise. just do it. whatever happen, no excuses. see? see the results? good or not, if it's bad, try again. don't give up. >> right. >> this is my sushi. perfect hey, hey. >> what's up? >> i want to be the greatest player that i could possibly become. hurry up. >> hurry! today, my friend. you did it. >> you did it! >> pursue a better you with centrum. it's a small win toward taking charge of your

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>> thank you fetish or compulsion. >> it's an ol and shockingly omnipresent feature of japanese popular fantasy cultures movies even comic books. >> the intricate restraint of a willing victim is, well, it's there, not far from the surface. of. what percentage of japanese men are interested in either tying up women or subjugating women. >> so you. cebotari. all of them. all of

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sex in japan, increasing numbers of people. don't they continue to live a life inside four walls inside their mind. the life we call of the computer geek, the nerd as avatars. there's a name for it, a whole subculture of what's called otaku. once a derisive term, now a proud identifier of the geek, one who has turned his back on the real world and finds satisfaction elsewhere. manga or comic books hold a different place in the cultural landscape here and address different needs. there's yaoi, for example, otherwise known as boys love manga, extremely popular with teenage girls. stories change, but the core themes are sexually ambiguous boys getting very friendly with each other. what legions of young girls and soccer moms find compelling in the thousands of these titles is something of a mystery to outsiders looking in, but there

they are, whole sections of manga bookshops dedicated to basically one direction type boy band figures having sex with each other. yaoi isn't generally explicit, though it can be some of the most popular manga are, however lurid. over the top illustrated stories of incredible violence, rape, murder, and sexual fetishism. toshio maeda is a manga creator. like few others, the father of what can only be described as tentacle porn. his 1986 manga urotsukidoji was about half human, half bestial space invaders in search of an evil supreme being. it contained. unbelievably graphic, lurid, violent, and, one would argue, offensive images of sex acts involving not sexual organs but other protuberances. it became

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penetrating each other in japan. >> right? it was a big no no at that time. so i invented tentacles to be evasive about the law. >> also demons. demons. demons? yes. it's fantastic. whether you meant to. at the time, you absolutely changed the world of manga. you created an entire spectrum of pornography that didn't exist before. i mean, if you go. if you go to youtube now, there's a tentacle manga. there and a tentacle and demon manga. there is tentacle and demon anime. a lot that looks good for dinner. this katsuo no tataki fresh bonito seared quickly over flame, arranged in bite size pieces, garnished with daikon, fresh greens, sprouts and ponzu. toshio comes here often for the tomato nabe, commonly a

favorite of sumo wrestlers. as part of a weight gain diet. basically, it's a hot pot of meat and vegetables chicken, pork, beef, fish balls keep getting fed into the pot, usually alongside much beer and rice, adding that much needed bulk up factor so important to sumo wrestlers and cable tv hosts so appealing to the hidden desires of a manga buying audience. men want filthier dirtier, more violent. >> in japan, you can't be rude in public, right? but you need to just, you know, i can say that letting off steam. so probably the manga is the one way to do that. >> what do women want? generally speaking, what do women want in manga? yaoi? >> yeah, yeah, boys love, you know, because probably don't have enough experience to do that with real men, but

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skin, but these clothes. yeah. so how big an audience in japan for a thrash metal, death metal, hardcore? >> we had, uh, ozzy osbourne's ozzfest this year as the first time in japan. and i feel like people are dreading the heavy metal scene as a new movement. >> and the audience, good audiences here they are kind of polite. >> they're polite, really? >> yeah. really quiet. and just watching us. and when we finished playing, they suddenly clap really i forget to get on

season. >> why i can't stop loving you. >> you know what i look at? popular music. the stuff that's selling millions of records in america. it makes me angry. actually. >> do you mean that you sometimes get angry with some people? >> like some like that? what's so funny? that's true. like. i mean, who do you hate? what band do you hate? what a band that i would know. >> yeah. >> who's the worst band in the world? the worst popular band in the world. >> i know who. >> my chemical romance, oh, my chemical romance. >> yes. i hate the. >> that's a good one. i controller through. >> approximate world them away. i feel forget to to on a season. why? i. can't stop loving you. you

seem so. >> can you make a living? >> no, no, not at all, not at all. we all have part time jobs. you all have jobs. >> what do your families think when they see you doing this kind of music? >> we are at 22 to 25 years old, so it's the hunting job season in our lives. so? >> so there's pressure. >> yeah. on you. >> and we all went to university and a lot of money. >> the expectation, the pressure is okay, get a real job. >> yeah. >> put aside this rock n roll and get a real job. in a perfect world, would you like to play rock n roll every night? would you like to play metal every night? >> yeah. >> i could be a cleaner in a toilet. if i can keep doing this. >> and you? yeah. these guys look like lifers.

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it's use friday plans.com. once again it's use friday plans.com. >> i'm rahel solomon in new york and this is cnn. >> tokyo may well be the most amazing food city in the world with a nearly unimaginable variety of places stacked one on top of the other, tucked

away on every level of densely packed city streets. at lawson's, you can dig into their unnaturally fluffy, insanely delicious, incongruously addictive egg salad sandwiches. i love them. oh yeah, layer after layer after layer of awesome crowded eateries serving. who knows what, but it all smells delicious and looks enticing in the tiny, almost micro neighborhood of nakameguro, tokyo. all is quiet and amazingly, for right here in the middle of this i goggling pinball machine of a city green. yasuda lives near here and he loves this place. a low key joint to enjoy family meals and meet friends and so much. >> i appreciate and i see you and all of the people from the u.s.. >> we miss you. >> you know i miss new york city. >> i'll tell you something really terrible. every relationship i've ever had

with a woman at some point very early on, i bring them to yasuda in new york, and i would watch how they eat. if they talk too much, if they didn't understand how to eat sushi, if they did not eat the uni, we will never have a relationship. we will. that's it. >> it's the end. >> they don't serve high end sushi here or elaborate kaiseki inspired fare. it's almost like hipster tempura. this style of food is known as kushiage skewers of delicious things dipped in batter and fried perfectly. yesudasan orders up shrimp and basil, lotus root, octopus and pickled quail eggs. we also have to have their take on okonomiyaki, a type of egg batter pancake that can be filled with many things. for us, it's squid and

brushed with worcestershire sauce. wow! that's awesome! >> i've been coming here for many times, but this is the first time to eat okonomiyaki. yeah, yeah. love this dish. >> you lived in new york, what, 14 years? 18 years? >> 27 years. so since 1984 to 2011, 27 years in new york. >> that changes a person. >> yes. very much. >> you're in new yorker now? yes. what was the hardest thing to get used to when you first came here? >> uh, culture. the culture, yes. culture is so much different between the u.s. and here. and manhattan is so interesting always. i never, ever get bored in that city. >> i never get bored. and i always learn new things in manhattan. but there's 15, 20 different manhattans in tokyo to me. i mean, if you shinjuku, shibuya, roppongi, from my perspective, these are completely different

cities, even building to building. pachinko down here, nightclub for men, nightclub for girls, nightclub for rock n rollers, a hair salon. but all up 50 different businesses in one building. yes, one building. i can spend the next five years just doing shows on this one building. what is weird? what is strange? what do those things even mean anyway? sure, a lot of what you've seen looks different from maybe the mainstream. it's certainly different from the way we like to portray ourselves, see ourselves at least our daytime selves. but roughly 50% of all movies

rented in american hotel rooms are adult films. the american porn industry catering to exactly the kinds of dark urges we've been talking about. but even nastier is a $12 billion a year industry that dwarfs the hollywood product. our own obsessions, arguably, are at least as crazy, violent and lurid as japan's, and we tend to actually carry out our violent fantasies more frequently, maybe with that fetishism, that attention to detail comes some kind of excellence in other fields. maybe there's a line from there to here. so who's crazy now?