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A master restorer nears retirement at Japan's premier classic car shop, founded by his father during WWII. With a promise to keep Naito Auto alive for generations, can his children maintain the family's legacy?
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00:00:01The smell of salt is not too hot.
00:00:04It is very hot.
00:00:06The smell of salt is also hot.
00:00:08The smell of salt is also hot.
00:00:11I don't know where it is.
00:00:13I don't know where it is.
00:00:18I'm going to drink the salt.
00:00:23I'm going to drink the salt.
00:00:25I'm going to drink it.
00:00:29Let's go.
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00:01:27Hey! Hey!
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00:02:47This is a film about a three-generation business called Naito Auto Engineering,
00:02:52a secret garage hidden in plain sight in the heart of Tokyo.
00:02:58Naito Auto's story starts in pre-World War II Japan,
00:03:02winds through the dark years of the war and then rides up like a roller coaster
00:03:06into the economic boom of the Showa era,
00:03:09then back down to the current day.
00:03:12The business was started by Shinichi Naito, an autodidact.
00:03:16Shinichi was an engineer who first worked with airplanes.
00:03:20After World War II, Shinichi found himself surrounded by automobiles,
00:03:25managing a large service garage.
00:03:28On weekends, Shinichi and his friends would travel to the Yokota Air Base,
00:03:32where American GIs would race and show off their foreign sports cars.
00:03:37Here, Shinichi found his niche.
00:03:40In 1953, Shinichi quit his job and decided to open his own service station,
00:03:45a one-car garage in the heart of Asakusa, a neighborhood of Tokyo.
00:03:50Today, Naito Auto is run by Shinichi's son, Masao Naito, with the help of his two sons.
00:03:57And this is actually a story of Masao, who, in many ways,
00:04:02is the quintessential Japanese baby boomer.
00:04:05From humble beginnings, he rode the opportunity of post-war Japan
00:04:09to make his family business a great success.
00:04:12His children, and even his parents, seem to stand in his shadow.
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00:05:43I don't know.
00:06:12One more time, one more time.
00:06:42Turn the door, turn the door.
00:06:45Now he's at school twice, and continues.
00:06:46I'll n't wait to buy one.
00:06:48Your advice, I'm so full.
00:06:51Whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:06:53I've had fun work, guys.
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00:06:56The room this makes me watch.
00:06:58I can't wait to work right now,
00:07:00but this is my day.
00:07:02My tea is good.
00:07:04That's my tea.
00:07:06You buy something.
00:07:07I don't have a tea in the middle,
00:07:08but she loves like nothing.
00:07:08I'm gonna sit down.
00:07:10There's a tea tree.
00:08:19Some years ago, I was a struggling filmmaker looking for stories and had the chance to be in Tokyo.
00:08:26Spending nights in a $25 hostel, living off food from 7-Eleven and making films on what they call the shoestring budget.
00:08:33I had a list of people I was set to meet in the Tokyo classic car community.
00:08:43Mechanics, owners, journalists, and even an ex-Formula 3 driver.
00:08:47I had the chance to meet the Naito family early in my trip.
00:08:57I arrived at their showroom, and after a quick exchange of some gifts I had brought from America, we headed off to the workshop.
00:09:04Oh, nice.
00:09:06Masao stayed behind.
00:09:08Just his two sons, So and Kay, and myself made the 30-minute journey to the place their family had been working for 50 years.
00:09:15When we arrived at the workshop, unknown to me at the time, I was about to be tested.
00:09:23Sitting there in that dingy old shop were three cars, uncovered, under the lights.
00:09:31So and Kay focused all their attention on two of those cars, a Lotus Elan and a Fiat Abarth.
00:09:37I sat in the cars, started the engines, and walked around them, showing me details and discussing the work they'd done on them.
00:09:47My photos from that night showed just that.
00:09:51But what my photos don't show, or barely show, is a third car, a Ferrari 250 LM.
00:09:59Now, a car guy would know exactly what that was.
00:10:02A car guy would ignore the Fiat and the Lotus, and walk straight up to the Ferrari.
00:10:09Because while the Fiat and the Lotus are worth about $100,000 apiece, the Ferrari is worth more than $20 million.
00:10:16The Ferrari is in a different class.
00:10:19There were only 32 of these cars ever built, and a couple of them won the 24-hour of Le Mans in 1965.
00:10:27A car guy would know that.
00:10:29But I was not a car guy.
00:10:30At least not when I first met the Naitos.
00:10:33And that's exactly why they wanted to work with me.
00:10:48They wanted to work with a guy that was more interested in their story.
00:10:52Not in their car collection.
00:10:54That first meeting with the Naitos would prove to them, despite never having opened their doors to a filmmaker,
00:11:03that they would agree to allow me to document their work, and their workshop, and their life.
00:11:10And that they would be able to do it.
00:11:40I think it's good to be a bike or a bike.
00:11:46It's different from all the things I've been doing.
00:11:51But I think it's a car.
00:11:55I'm a Knight Auto Engineering.
00:12:01I'm a Knight Auto Engineering.
00:12:10It's a great experience.
00:12:17It's a great experience.
00:12:20It's a great experience.
00:12:25I think that people have a passion for the people who are now in this era.
00:12:32I think that when I was in the car, I had a car that was not a car.
00:12:48I think that when I was in the car, I felt that I was in the car.
00:12:52I'm going to move the car and move the car.
00:12:59I was like, I'm going to move the car.
00:13:02I was like, I can't do that.
00:13:07I can't do that.
00:13:09I can't do that.
00:13:14I can't do that.
00:13:19I was like, I'm going to make a car, and I've seen it all over a few months.
00:13:23I've seen it in a few months, and it's been a year, and a year after I've been in a car.
00:13:29I've seen it all over a year, and I've seen it all over a year, and it's been a part of the car, and we've seen it all over a few months.
00:13:39It's really hard to replace it.
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00:15:42The night shows are very private, and what's unusual is most shops, they advertise all around the world, they're open to the public, they do not do that.
00:15:51They choose the customers, the customers do not choose them, they're not open to the public.
00:15:58It's like hearing about Aladdin's cave and that it really exists.
00:16:07My name is David Gooding, I'm co-founder of Gooding & Company, and I've been in the auction business for probably 30 years, been around the classic car market all my life.
00:16:25You know, one thing that really impressed me about the Naito's is that they are so careful in their approach, and nothing is rushed.
00:16:38And they take on every project with great care.
00:16:44Here's the shop of only five people, and they are working on some of the most coveted and valuable cars in the world.
00:16:55I mean, when we talk about a 250 LM Ferrari, a 911 R, cars that the world's top collections are looking for.
00:17:04And the fact that they have restored them, sourced them, found them, owned them, it's truly remarkable.
00:17:16There are many people within our industry, top-level people, that have never even heard about them, seen the shop, or know anything about the Naito family.
00:17:25It is really unheard of, and for those of us in the business, that's magical.
00:18:25My name is Naito Masao.
00:18:33I was born in 1949.
00:18:39I was a CEO of Naito Auto Engineering,
00:18:45but now I'm retired and retired.
00:18:49The
00:19:02私が子供の頃はまだうちの父が内藤
00:19:11自動車整備工場というのを東京都台東区浅草というところで
00:19:170.2階に住んでた時に感じたのはともっかく自動車やって大変だなと。
00:19:36Shinichi Naito was a man from a japan that no longer exists
00:20:00before world war ii japanese school children were taught with military-like discipline
00:20:09sometimes with military supervision
00:20:11born in 1919 and raised during a depression shinichi's family struggled to feed their seven
00:20:19children so shinichi stopped going to school and worked odd jobs to help the family early on he
00:20:28fell in love with motorcycles bought books on how to fix them and studied avidly in his free time
00:20:33and somehow he was able to turn this knowledge into a highly skilled profession
00:20:51the details of his first job as an engineer are murky
00:20:55but before and during world war ii he worked at nakajima aircraft company
00:21:00building and maintaining fighter planes for the japanese military
00:21:04私の父以外は全員工学歴だったそうです
00:21:15私の父だけが要するに学校出てない人だったそうです
00:21:23it's hard to visualize how different shinichi was children that dropped out of school in japan
00:21:29would eventually find themselves in low-wage manual labor jobs
00:21:35rarely with any large responsibility
00:21:37but shinichi was working alongside highly skilled employees who were working alongside
00:21:40highly skilled engineers on the most sophisticated combustion engines of the day
00:21:45on the most sophisticated combustion engines of the day
00:21:47it's hard to visualize how different shinichi was
00:21:49it's hard to visualize how different shinichi was
00:21:51children that dropped out of school in japan would eventually find themselves in low-wage manual labor jobs
00:21:57rarely with any large responsibility
00:22:02but shinichi was working alongside highly skilled engineers
00:22:06on the most sophisticated combustion engines of the day
00:22:10rare doesn't describe it it was unheard of
00:22:14but the real genius was what shinichi decided to do after the war ended
00:22:33it was basically out of 3 years
00:22:36who can call it
00:22:38cabinet groups
00:22:39my случае
00:22:40έρals
00:22:41méand
00:22:42tap
00:22:42ミロ
00:22:44簽
00:22:46そういうあの
00:22:48車がどうしたも車の修理がしたいとか治したいとか détしたいとか いうんじゃなくて
00:22:50飛行機のエンジニアリーが 解体されて utilisr
00:22:51職を失ったから
00:22:53という事です
00:22:55ちょうどその頃、米軍が非常に好景気でで東武戦争があって
00:23:16米軍が日本にいっぱい切ったんですね
00:23:20私は、当時の商工さんたちがすごい車をお持ちになってきてたんです。ただ、日本でそれを直せる人がいなかったもんで、うちの父が非常に便利に使われて、毎週毎週横田ベースで修理をしに行ってました。
00:23:50Aston Martin's DB3, Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing, and there were some super cars that were gathered.
00:24:07Aston Martin's DB3, Mercedes-Benz 300 Gullwing, and I started working on the first time.
00:24:28And a few years later, a day or two, and a half of the day, it was almost the same.
00:24:38Aston Martin's DB3, Mercedes-Benz 300,000 Stupul.
00:24:44By the way, the DB3, Mercedes-Benz 500,000 Stupul, with the name of the DB3, Mercedes-Benz 300 Gullwing, and it was a very significant amount of time.
00:24:53I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit, but I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit.
00:25:23I'll see you next time.
00:25:53It's 4mm.
00:25:55It's big.
00:25:57The hole was already closed.
00:25:59Yes, it was closed.
00:26:23With Shinichi's skills as a mechanic, Naito Auto was off and running.
00:26:29At his last job, Shinichi had built a client base that followed him when he opened his own shop.
00:26:35His one-car service station was working exclusively on foreign cars, an anomaly in 50s and 60s Japan.
00:26:53It was only a customer.
00:26:59I had to do it.
00:27:05It was so busy.
00:27:08My husband and his wife were doing the job.
00:27:13I was looking for a car to play.
00:27:19It used to be that in family businesses, a son would have to learn to earn his keep, outside of the family, before becoming an employee of his father's.
00:27:32So Masao, straight out of school at the age of 22, began working at Kinetsu Motors, an authorized Ford dealer, on his father's recommendation.
00:27:43What Masao did learn from his father, he learned by watching.
00:27:46And when he began his career as a mechanic, Masao realized he had a massive leg up on his peers, and excelled.
00:27:54So having a father that's a technical genius can help you become a good mechanic.
00:28:01But what it doesn't do is make you a good businessman.
00:28:03So how did Masao turn his father's small service station into a world-class business?
00:28:07With the world's most valuable cars?
00:28:09Like going to Los Angeles, that's how.
00:28:13Like going to Los Angeles.
00:28:14That's how.
00:28:15Like going to Los Angeles.
00:28:16That's how.
00:28:17Like going to Los Angeles.
00:28:18That's how.
00:28:19Because he lives man it's his eep and all the price.
00:28:20So he's just like a great deal, but it isn't a good mechanic.
00:28:22He's just like a good mechanic, but what he doesn't do is make you a good business man.
00:28:25So how did Masao turn his father's small service station into a world-class business with the world's
00:28:30most valuable cars?
00:28:33Like going to Los Angeles.
00:28:35how
00:28:50arriving in la with no money he first found work as a gardener
00:28:54alongside men from okinawa he met at a boarding house but soon instinct kicked
00:29:01in and he was back working with cars first at a radiator shop off the 405 freeway
00:29:08and then something a little different
00:29:13alabaito de dorobo no ano kumao moa pain to net
00:29:19shite alabaito shite mashan
00:29:22some don't know what that's got to do to take a
00:29:25uh no missing the sun that could not be you mochira you are nice you
00:29:29uh no mo ga shite mashta kudo having saved a bit of money what he did next
00:29:35proved faithful and was probably the moment he went from employee
00:29:41to boss
00:29:55uh
00:29:59some barracuda or cuttari you are
00:30:02日本で
00:30:03乗ったらかっこいいだと
00:30:06その車4000ドルで買った車が
00:30:10それを僕がエバってみんなに見せに行ったら打ってくれって言われて
00:30:17もう帰って1週間で売れたわけですよ
00:30:22全ての経費を入れて
00:30:25倍で売れたんです
00:30:29これもしかすと
00:30:32ビジネスとしては
00:30:34ちょっとないなぁと
00:30:37その売れた
00:30:393日後ぐらいだったと思いますけど記憶で
00:30:43またロサンゼルス戻ったんですね
00:30:46車を今度は買いに
00:31:13本日は
00:31:41I was sitting at the door when I was in the front of the door.
00:31:57I thought I was like,
00:32:00I thought I was like,
00:32:02I thought I was like,
00:32:03I thought I was going to introduce myself.
00:32:08So I told him, he said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said. She said, she said. She said, she said, she said I can drink, so it was starting.
00:32:33I'm Naito Asami.
00:32:40My name is Naito Asami.
00:32:44My job is Naito and Okaami.
00:32:49My name is Naito Asami.
00:32:54I've been in the first place to meet my friends.
00:33:01I've been in the first place to meet my friends.
00:33:06I've been in the first place to meet my friends.
00:33:11It's a great car.
00:33:16My family is so low and I'm sleeping.
00:33:21It's a big one.
00:33:24It's a big one.
00:33:26It's big one.
00:33:28It's a big one.
00:33:35It's a big one.
00:33:38I'm in the first place to meet my friends.
00:33:45I'm in the first place to meet my friends.
00:33:48I can't see my friends.
00:33:53I can't see my friends.
00:33:56I can't see my friends.
00:34:02I can't see my friends.
00:34:36自動車屋さんなんだろうなって勝手に思って実際行ったら全然そんなことなくってえって思うくらいで。
00:35:06お客さんが似てるのがあったら似てるのが。
00:35:26何?
00:35:28That's not what I made.
00:35:30No.
00:35:36Buying and selling cars became Masao's primary focus.
00:35:40And quickly, Naito Aro transformed from a small service station to an international business,
00:35:46importing and selling cars from around the world.
00:35:58I bought it for 4 trucks, but I bought it for 2 trucks.
00:36:12I bought it for 2 trucks.
00:36:15I bought it for 2 trucks.
00:36:17It's a car that doesn't have a car.
00:36:21It's cheap.
00:36:23So I bought it for 2 trucks.
00:36:26That's why I realized that the car's base is now.
00:36:32Built on his father's foundation, Masao had found his niche.
00:36:35An untapped market in Japan that proved to be much more lucrative for the company than service and restoration.
00:36:42And quickly, the business and his father shifted their focus.
00:36:56To get a small business, look at the list of cars.
00:36:57There's a few things to do.
00:37:01That's what I bought here for 10 trucks.
00:37:03I bought a lot of everything and everything took me to reach that point.
00:37:06I bought a lot of everything.
00:37:08I bought some stuff and everything.
00:37:10I bought some stuff and everything I bought.
00:37:12I bought some stuff with some stuff.
00:37:13I bought some stuff from the store.
00:37:15And it's just a couple of things to do.
00:37:17I bought a lot of things to get living with me.
00:38:19The family business was growing, and soon Masao set his sights on the UK.
00:38:50He focused on British cars first, the Lotus Elan and Elite, or the Mini Cooper S, Mark 1 and 2, popular models that would sell easily in Japan.
00:39:01Learning English on the fly, the world was wide open.
00:39:19I don't know anything, but at the beginning, it was an intercontinental hotel in London.
00:39:32This is where Masao excelled.
00:39:37This is where Masao excelled.
00:39:51So while he was importing those Lotus and Mini models, he was also thinking ahead.
00:39:57Knowing that his father was always in the workshop, Masao would buy cars that most would overlook.
00:40:02Cars used in races, discarded as junk, waiting for the right moment.
00:40:07A Ferrari 250 SWB is worth $10 million today.
00:40:36But when Masao saw them sitting in disrepair in the back corner of a garage outside of London, he could buy them for around $6,000.
00:40:44But the trust worked both ways.
00:40:49Masao knew his father was ready to handle this new venture.
00:40:53But Shinichi as well had to trust his son, and was prepared to sacrifice all that they had worked for to support Masao's dream.
00:41:01As a result, my father said,
00:41:06My father said this is me, my father would buy it but my house is not bought but bought it.
00:41:12So he said that I would buy it.
00:41:15He said that my husband would buy it.
00:41:17He said that my house would buy it.
00:41:20My father would buy it because it was a living without a house.
00:41:23I was worried about my house.
00:41:26Then my father would buy it.
00:41:28私がやりたいことは絶対に反対しないんです。お前の好きな車を買いなさい。
00:41:58this building is more than just a workshop.
00:42:06For many years, it was also a home.
00:42:09Here, Masao started his family.
00:42:12Three children he raised under this roof, alongside the grandparents, and Masao's younger brother.
00:42:20Downstairs the men worked on cars, while upstairs the women prepared meals, tended
00:42:25to the children and manage the finances.
00:42:30Above the workshop in this tiny three-room apartment, the Naito family lived together,
00:42:35ate together, and built a business together.
00:42:57I was born in the house, because I was in the house.
00:43:05I had the engine on the engine and the gasoline smell, and it was a lot of gas.
00:43:11It's so high that I could have.
00:43:14I've been in the house, and I've been in the house.
00:43:19I've been in the house, and I've been in the house.
00:43:22I've been in the house.
00:43:26As I said, it's very difficult to get married.
00:43:34It's because it's starting to get married and it's difficult to get married.
00:43:45It's because I'm scared.
00:43:49So she was scared because she was scared.
00:43:54I think it's a small house.
00:44:09僕たち5人家族は六畳一間に本当にこうやって寄り添うように寝ててでリビングそのみんなでご飯を食べるところを迎え挟んでうちのおじいちゃんとばあちゃんが六畳かな六畳のところに住んでました
00:44:34本当に狭いでもそれでもすごい楽しかったですね当時は
00:45:04もうなかったなかった
00:45:10もうなかったなかった
00:45:16うん
00:45:18もうなかったなかった
00:45:22うん
00:45:24みぼん
00:45:26うん
00:45:28みぼん
00:45:30みぼん
00:45:32みぅ
00:45:45みぅ
00:45:46みぅ
00:45:48At first glance, the family seems to work together in perfect harmony.
00:45:52Upstairs, three generations lived in a cramped apartment,
00:45:56slept cheek to jowl while downstairs some of the world's greatest cars
00:45:59were serviced with artistry and precision.
00:46:03Knowledge passed down day by day over a lifetime, from father to son.
00:46:10Masao is the brains of the operation, overseeing the smallest details.
00:46:15His word is law.
00:46:16He rules with a quiet force.
00:46:20Orders come in short bursts,
00:46:22followed by one of his children rushing off to complete a task.
00:46:30Tensions arise, but never for the camera,
00:46:34and never outside of the home.
00:46:39And despite this, the Naito stick together,
00:46:42as a family and as a business.
00:46:45Decisions are made in Masao's dining room.
00:46:48At this table, he makes his wishes known.
00:46:51Who they can sell cars to,
00:46:53who they can buy cars from,
00:46:55and who they must avoid.
00:46:59Maybe it's like this for good reason.
00:47:01Or maybe he won't let go.
00:47:02A family, like a business, must have its leader.
00:47:08And Masao was born to rule.
00:47:10To be in control.
00:47:12And this control he hasn't shared with anyone.
00:47:15Not his father,
00:47:17not his brother,
00:47:18and not his sons.
00:47:19As 콜� fooled.
00:47:24Bye.
00:47:29Bye.
00:47:29Bye.
00:47:35Bye.
00:47:38Bye.
00:47:40Bye.
00:47:45Bye.
00:47:46Bye.
00:47:46Bye.
00:47:47Bye.
00:47:47Bye.
00:52:48Their philosophy has always been simple, restoration as close to the original as possible.
00:52:55The work is silently watched over by Masao's patriarchal eye.
00:52:59His two sons in their 40s work alongside their father day in and day out, listening, watching,
00:53:07and being shown how it's done.
00:53:08Their employees are also part of the family.
00:53:12One is Masao's younger brother, who, having never worked anywhere else in his life, must be content to never rise in the ranks, as it was first his father, and today his brother, who will always be his boss.
00:53:27He'll be right back.
00:53:28He'll be right back.
00:53:34He'll be right back.
00:53:35He'll be right back.
00:53:41He'll be right back.
00:53:42He'll be right back.
00:53:43He'll be right back.
00:53:44He'll be right back.
00:53:45He'll be right back.
00:54:15He'll be right back.
00:54:16He'll be right back.
00:54:17He'll be right back.
00:54:18He'll be right back.
00:54:19He'll be right back.
00:54:20I should be right back.
00:54:21He'll be right back.
00:54:22He'll be right back.
00:54:23I have learned how to play national race.
00:54:25He'll be right back.
00:54:26He'll get to it.
00:54:27Hey, I can't think tonight.
00:54:28I do not know.
00:54:29I'm a member of the company, and I'm a member of the company, and I'm a member of the company.
00:54:59I was a kid from my father, but I was a kid when I was a kid.
00:55:09I was a kid at that time.
00:55:15I had to say that I was a kid.
00:55:24Well, I thought I'd be able to overcome it, that's what I thought.
00:55:31I'm supposed to do this to be able to do it, but...
00:55:54Okay.
00:56:24The fifth and most valued employee of Naito Auto is the shop foreman, a distant cousin
00:56:49of the Naito's bi-marriage, of all the men under this roof, he most embodies the spirit
00:56:54of the shokunin, a true craftsman.
00:56:58His life is dedicated to these cars, in the same shop, for over 50 years.
00:57:04Originally hired by Shinichi when he was just 23 years old, he's been working at Naito Auto
00:57:09longer than Masao.
00:57:17His skills speak volumes within the company, and he is tasked with holding the most knowledge
00:57:23of how these cars must be maintained.
00:57:27Today, the most stressful part of his job is ensuring that this knowledge is passed down
00:57:33before it's his time to retire.
00:57:37Naito Auto's工場長, Nakagawa.
00:57:43Naito Auto's工場長, Nakagawa.
00:57:50Naito Auto's工場長, Nakagawa.
00:57:57Naito Auto's工場長, Nakagawa.
00:58:07Naito Auto's工場長, Nakagawa.
00:58:15Just wait.
00:58:19Well, it's necessary to sell things.
00:58:23The basic thing is cleaning.
00:58:32It's not that kind of thing.
00:58:45.
00:58:50.
00:58:55.
00:59:00.
00:59:03.
00:59:05.
00:59:09How can I do it?
00:59:21Sookun and Kei-chan can all be able to do it.
00:59:30That's the best thing.
00:59:32I want to do it.
00:59:39I want to do it.
00:59:47I want to do it.
00:59:53I want to do it.
01:00:03I want to do it.
01:00:13I want to do it.
01:00:23I want to do it.
01:00:33I want to do it.
01:00:38I want to do it.
01:00:45I want to do it.
01:01:01I want to do it.
01:01:06I want to do it.
01:01:21I want to do it.
01:01:27I want to do it.
01:01:37I want to do it.
01:01:42I want to do it.
01:01:48I want to do it.
01:02:01I want to do it.
01:02:03I want to do it.
01:02:05I want to do it.
01:02:09I want to do it.
01:02:11I want to do it.
01:02:25I want to do it.
01:02:29I want to do it...
01:02:33It's the twilight for Masao's generation.
01:02:47The baby boomers who watched their parents come through the war
01:02:50and decided they were going to do things their way.
01:02:54Opportunities were everywhere.
01:02:56Optimism reigned.
01:02:57His father stepped aside and trusted Masao's vision and grit.
01:03:01But by the time his children came of age,
01:03:05Japan's prosperity was on the decline.
01:03:08It seems that Masao has airs of blood,
01:03:11but none of vision or opportunity.
01:03:16And yet, he's often inscrutable.
01:03:19At times, contradicts himself.
01:03:22He claims to be retired, but here he is, every day,
01:03:26running even the smallest details of the operation.
01:03:31Near the end of my time with the family,
01:03:35I saw this clearer than ever before.
01:03:39Recently, he's fired his younger brother, Shigeru,
01:03:42after the two had an argument.
01:03:45And, as mysteriously as he allowed filming to begin,
01:03:49he's decided it's come to an end.
01:03:51And today, I'm not welcome in the showroom or the workshop.
01:03:54But I'd like to believe that Masao's decision
01:04:02was rooted in empathy, not anger,
01:04:04as he knew that in order to tell the story honestly,
01:04:08I needed space away from the family.
01:04:10I needed perspective.
01:04:12And this was how he helped me.
01:04:14A question remains.
01:04:21What will happen when Masao's shadow fades?
01:04:24Eventually, So and Kei will have to stand in the light,
01:04:27on their own.
01:04:29But today, their father remains perched high above them.
01:04:34It's possible he's waiting for his sons
01:04:36to have the will to push him aside.
01:04:38Or maybe, he plans to remain in the workshop,
01:04:41as Shinichi did, till his dying days.
01:04:50Masao and Nakagawa are nearing 80 years old.
01:04:54With deep reverence for the ways of the past,
01:04:56they preserve hope for the younger generation.
01:05:00But these men represent a dying breed,
01:05:04their lives dedicated to a craft.
01:05:07You have to wonder if the knowledge of their work
01:05:10will be lost.
01:12:03When I got to the showroom the next morning, there was Masao, and then I know seven, waiting
01:12:08for me.
01:12:13Masao looked at me with a big smile and said, take two.
01:12:17That morning, so, so, and so, and I took the car out to a street, and I was just a big day,
01:12:18and I was just a big day, and I was just a big day that took the car out of the street.
01:12:24And I took the car out to the street Masao had suggested, he stayed behind.
01:12:27For Masao and the men of his generation, the story is coming to an end.
01:12:47But for Naito Otto, the story is still being written.
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