APRIL 2013

Hello everyone,

Good news the American Parks are back!

Following my participation of Michel Drucker, "Highly Sunday," our recent film about the Parks of the American West has been so successful that Warner Home Video and consequently Amazon, Fnac and our shop had run out of stock ; we have just heard that it's been fixed : if you have been waiting for several weeks for this film forgive us this time. You can now watch DVD or better in Blu-Ray high definition the wonders of Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, California, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado or Montana.

For our part, we are already in the process of busy on the third and last shooting of our film about Japan, a shooting that had been delayed by the events that have devastated part of this extraordinary country: if the Tohoku region suffered from the giant tsunami and the destruction of Fukushima, the rest of the country, immense, has suffered only from the "media tsunami" that followed in the international press, as always giving the impression that the whole country was to avoid, whereas Tokyo, Kyoto, and many spectacular regions are untouched and splendid.

For this trip, we decided to visit the two largest islands in southern Japan, Kyushu and Shikoku; of course, in Nagasaki as we once saw in Hiroshima, still resonates with the memory of the other nuclear scourge, triggered by man this time, which marked the end of the Second World War ; but the lesson that remains a passion for peace ; and the rest of the "prefectures" is as always totally fascinating and incredibly exotic ; the language problem (very few Japanese speak even a single word of English) makes every movement, every meeting a challenge, often as picturesque as the Sofia Coppola film "Lost in Translation", but we love it!

And of course, after autumn, as colorful as in Quebec, it is the season of cherry that we have chosen for this trip: millions of Japanese move to admire the brief period when millions of cherry trees bloom in a symphony of pinks and whites, like an explosion; we picnic under the trees, photography assiduously, you can admire the real snowstorm that falling petals create when the wind begins to take them away

It is from the city of Kagoshima, in southern Kyushu that I send you this letter; just now we are going tovisit an active volcano, tomorrow we will discover geothermal phenomena comparable to New Zealand's or to Yellowstone's, before taking a ferry to Shikoku then the Shinkansen back to Tokyo, and we will return to Paris for a few weeks to edit this film that looks spectacular, and will be published in autumn.

At the end of April, I will return to Banana Split, presently taken car of by my friend Patrice, who has created in Raiatea a pleasant Ice Cream shop on wheels which I recommend to you !