How Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the oldKazuyoshi Otsuka didn’t talk to his neighbours much. They knew he worked for the Shochiku movie studio, where the directors Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu achieved global renown. They knew he was a costumer, because he used to complain to them about having to argue with famous Japanese actresses over whether their outfits clashed. They also knew he moved into the Atago apartment blocks, a huge ho
