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Naomi Kawase's Olympic film promises to be like nothing you've ever seen before Published 20th July 2021 Naomi Kawase's Olympic film promises to be like nothing you've ever seen before Naomi Kawase is on her phone in the back of a taxi, squeezing in this interview on the way to another shoot. For a director known for her lyrical brand of filmmaking, she talks at a clip; time is pressing, understandable as the days edge closer to the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Japanese auteur, the nation's most famous female director, is deep into the production of her official film of the delaye...

- i - i am one of them. - thank you! - please call or go online right now. if operators are busy, please call again. or go to loveshriners.org right away to give. ♪ >> this is a solvable problem. there are cities that are bigger than any city that we have, like tokyo, where there is no homelessness. we have to start just using much more intelligent strategies, and that's exactly what we are trying to do. >> martha: that was ben carson calling the disaster unfolding in the streets of places like san francisco and l.a. a very solvable issue. but right now, despite the booming economy and they ...

Short range and long range missiles that could easily devastate south korea and japan. we know they've got major stocks of chemical and biological weapons. you remember the assassination of kim jong-un's brother at the airport. they carried out that assassination with vx. they are a chemical and biological weapons known power. they could put nerve agent on to some of the weapons we know for sure they've got. if they were able to successfully hit a city like tokyo, they means they would be hitting a population center of over 30 million people. tokyo's metropolitan area has a population akin to ...

And if there is a nuclear melt down, this will make what is one of the worst natural disasters in the history of man kind making it that much worse as the country now deal was a nuclear problem. >> we've talked about those powerful after shocks as well. you know this isn't over. people are still experiencing after shocks, some very strong, talking about a nuclear melt down like this this, is just the last thing they needed to deal with at this point. people in need of rescue. you know we've talked about with damage and destruction there are people rescuers aren't going to be able to get to. no...

You look at the images here and the ensuing tsunami. the relief effort now and life saving efforts that are going to begin now it is daylight again in japan today. how have the aftershocks from your standpoint been? >> i was up most of the night. it felt like things were just rolling all the time. i think we are fortunate here in tokyo. i talk a walk around the neighborhood early this morning and things seem to be getting back to normal. certainly, northern japan is really unbelievable. >> sean: thank you barbara for being with us. we appreciate it. the american red cross announced today that ...