The Wolverine

00:42:51,570 --> 00:42:54,657 <i>Once again, we're back in Tokyo, shooting in Tokyo here,</i> 729 00:42:54,740 --> 00:42:57,076 <i>once we ran out of the temple and we were on the streets.</i> 730 00:42:57,159 --> 00:43:01,664 <i>And will be for the next several minutes as they're running around on the streets.</i> 731 00:43:02,998 --> 00:43:04,792 <i>It's not easy shooting in Japan.</i> 732 00:43:05,834 --> 00:43:09,880 <i>The people are lovely. The country is lovely. They love cinema.</i> 733 00:43:10,756 --> 00:43:16,262 <i>But it's more a factor that the government...</i> 734 00:43:16,345 --> 00:43:19,348 <i>There is no kind of film commission to make it easier to close streets</i> 735 00:43:19,431 --> 00:43:21,558 <i>or to find places to shoot.</i> 736 00:43:21,642 --> 00:43:24,812 <i>So in many ways when we were shooting in Tokyo,</i> 737 00:43:24,895 --> 00:43:29,483 <i>we, literally, just stole shots and did it, as they say, guerrilla-style,</i> 738 00:43:29,566 --> 00:43:32,444 <i>which is what this sequence is built on.</i> 739 00:43:32,528 --> 00:43:37,616 <i>Many shots you see of Hugh and Tao Okamoto running on the streets,</i> 740 00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:41,412 <i>and others here were actually stolen in Japan.</i> 741 00:43:41,495 --> 00:43:47,126 <i>Shotjust... I would literally have a van with Hugh and Tao inside,</i> 742 00:43:47,209 --> 00:43:50,963 <i>and I'd find a street corner that looked good, and they'd run out,</i> 743 00:43:51,046 --> 00:43:56,010 <i>and run as fast as they could through regular folks on the streets.</i> 744 00:43:56,093 --> 00:43:57,970 <i>And these were our shots.</i> 745 00:43:58,053 --> 00:44:00,180 <i>People would react to someone falling.</i> 746 00:44:00,264 --> 00:44:02,391 <i>This just shot... Jumped out of a van and shot.</i> 747 00:44:02,474 --> 00:44:05,394 <i>Those were all regular folks. This, too, in Japan.</i> 748 00:44:06,729 --> 00:44:08,063 <i>This, too.</i> 749 00:44:09,481 --> 00:44:11,984 <i>These are two stuntmen running down a regular street</i> 750 00:44:12,443 --> 00:44:14,611 <i>and falling on the ground as other people look at them.</i> 751 00:44:14,695 --> 00:44:17,031 <i>Again, not extras, these are just regular folks in Japan.</i> 752 00:44:18,657 --> 00:44:19,658 <i>Stolen footage.</i> 753 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,329 <i>Literally, landing like you would if we had an HD camera</i> 754 00:44:23,662 --> 00:44:26,373 <i>and were shooting it as student filmmakers.</i> 755 00:44:28,417 --> 00:44:29,585 (GROANS) 756 00:44:32,254 --> 00:44:33,297 (YELLING) 757 00:44:33,380 --> 00:44:35,132 MANGOLD: <i>More stuff on the streets.</i> 758 00:44:35,591 --> 00:44:38,302 <i>From the moment they enter the pachinko parlor in a second,</i> 759 00:44:38,761 --> 00:44:42,181 <i>I'm actually shooting this at 2:30 a.m. in the middle of the night,</i> 760 00:44:42,264 --> 00:44:45,059 <i>and we're just blasting light in the windows to make it look...</i> 761 00:44:45,142 --> 00:44:47,102 <i>Not this shot. I did this at dawn.</i> 762 00:44:48,937 --> 00:44:50,147 (GROANS) 763 00:44:53,275 --> 00:44:57,738 <i>But from this point on, it is, night for day.</i> 764 00:44:57,821 --> 00:45:00,741 <i>That is, you cannot close a pachinko parlor.</i> 765 00:45:00,824 --> 00:45:03,494 <i>No pachinko parlor in Tokyo will close itself,</i> 766 00:45:03,577 --> 00:45:05,496 <i>because there's so much money being made.</i> 767 00:45:05,579 --> 00:45:09,583 <i>Every one of those machines is having dollars dropped in it every three seconds.</i> 768 00:45:09,666 --> 00:45:13,879 <i>So it's very hard to find enough cash to buy any pachinko parlor</i> 769 00:45:13,962 --> 00:45:17,466 <i>out of shooting there, unless it's while they're closed in the middle of the night,</i> 770 00:45:17,549 --> 00:45:20,469 <i>which is when we shot there. Even though this is a day scene.</i> 771 00:45:20,928 --> 00:45:23,389 <i>So then this was the last shot I did at dawn,</i> 772 00:45:24,932 --> 00:45:26,412 <i>where they ran out into dawn's light.</i> 773 00:45:27,226 --> 00:45:29,162 <i>It's probably 5:00, 6:00 in the morning at this moment.</i> 774 00:45:29,186 --> 00:45:30,562 <i>We've all been up all night.</i> 775 00:45:30,646 --> 00:45:32,314 You're bleeding. You need help. 776 00:45:32,481 --> 00:45:33,982 Just keep moving. 777 00:45:36,235 --> 00:45:37,569 (PANTING) 778 00:45:37,653 --> 00:45:39,321 (WOMAN CHATTERING ON PA) 779 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,077 Thank you for what you did back there. 780 00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,287 MANGOLD: <i>This sequence is also shot in Japan,</i> 781 00:45:47,371 --> 00:45:51,125 <i>at one of the great train stations in Tokyo.</i> 782 00:45:53,502 --> 00:45:57,297 <i>Much of these sequences are influenced for me,</i> 783 00:45:57,381 --> 00:46:02,...