The neck is kind of what`s sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.
Since we didn`t use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There`s really not a lot of violence. It`s more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.