"Come on, gather around." "This project is by Matthew Barney the artist who is working in New York..." "He is making a film and sculpture for a new project that will open as a one-person show next year at the 21st Century Museum in Kanazawa" "We are asking for your help." "Here is Matthew Barney." "I am an employee of the company." "I am a site foreman." "We've never had an experience like this, so honestly we're having a hard time doing it." "This is the 15th departure of the Whaling Research team..." "We are aiming to catch 440 whales." "Without your effort, we could never be successful with our research on whales." "Every year the ship departs from Shimonoseki for researching and hunting whales." "Each voyage lasts six months." "We take a break for one to two months, then we go on our next trip." "I am nervous." "I feel like I'm on a cooking show." "¶ Crazy dancers, crazy audience ¶" "¶ If are all crazy, we should just dance. ¶" "He brings the tea ceremony idea to his project and connects it to his own ideas." "I sympathized with this idea, and that's why I decided to collaborate with him." "Honestly, I didn't understand what the content of the film was." "I was honestly surprised our culture could be portrayed in this way." "Maybe that's shrimp?" "I wonder what the white thing is?" "Wax?" "When you look closely it looks gross." "He has put Japanese culture into himself and then represented it through his own viewpoint." "Plus, he is adding his own imagination to it." "Usually, when an American artist uses Japanese culture in their work, it makes Japanese people cringe." "But his project doesn't give us any of those feelings." "When you see the cutting up of a whale, it seems like a dark thing, but in this case," "I was amazed at how beautiful it was."