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(More customer reviews)After attempting a few times, I found it difficult to write a review without sounding like a word for word repeat of Hazel Motes's excellent review above. It really is spot on.
I'd just like to add that director Peter I. Chang deserves a nod for interweaving interviews, stock footage, photos, and musical performances in a manner that really pulls you into Shinagawa's world. Even though the scope of the subject's journey is rather large - spanning Tokyo to Los Angeles, folk to reggae, MTV fame to poverty - the film is rather intimate, more like a conversation with Shinagawa. It is at times funny, sad, over the top, introspective, but always a real treat. I definitely recommend checking it out.

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I want to Destroy America is a documentary about the street musician Hisao Shinagawa a Japanese singer/songwriter who has refused to give up on his elusive dream of success and stardom regardless of personal cost and the solitary reality of his life. For 42 years he has cast himself as the Japanese Bob Dylan. Moving from Tokyo to America in 1974 following in the footsteps of his hero Woody Guthrie he befriended Johnny Cash and Townes Van Zandt after hitchhiking to Nashville. Now at 60 he plays his music on the streets of Los Angeles while living in near poverty still hoping to find an audience in a manner that is admirable bittersweet and ultimately heartbreaking. The Atomic Music of Shinagawa!DVD Special Features:Chapter Selections, Trailer, Still Gallery, Biographies, Soundtracks, Outtakes.

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