junco watanabe created these special books.'s been making them for 35 years as a way to give disabled children opportunities to learn. watanabe uses felt, kimono material and other fabrics. details include embroidery, buttons and string. children can practice tieing and untieing, buttoning and unbuttoning while touching the books. these exercises can foster independence. >> translator: sometimes a mother calls me to let me know a cloth book inspired her child's first words. that makes me so happy, it brings tears to my eyes. >> reporter: watanabe has assembled a group of volunteers that help make the books and donate them to libraries around japan. so far, the group has given more thonn 25,000 books to more than 500 libraries. this library in a tokyo suburb has more than 500 of them. ako and daisuke live nearby. he was diagnosed with downs syndrome at birth. when he was a year and a half old, he began coming to the library with his mother to borrow cloth books. a book introducing musical notes really caught his eye. >> translat

there's a deep pain and -- and i think, in fact this real man, watanabe, he was sick.omething of wrong with him to behave that way. >> how does one give direction to an actor to be that ugly? that reprehensible on camera? >> what's beautiful, we talked about the film and what the messages of the film were. he understood that his part was to not represent japan because that character doesn't represent japan. but to represent the opposition and the aggression and the anger and violence that louis would then rise up against. he knew that the harder he threw down against him, the more it would matter for louis. he met louis and cared about him and spent time with him. so i think he knew -- he took seriously as a professional this is his job. his job was to go to the ugliest, darkest place he could find within himself. he told me -- you can't tell an actor where they find that. you tell them what they have to accomplish. he told me he thought about if someone tried to kill his family. and it's why he was -- he had -- i think it was so painful for him to play this. he would