Lost in Translation

[Kyo28]

Originally Posted by Suntory_Times

These are all things friends of mine who have traveled to Japan have experienced and told me about. I myself have never been to Japan, but considering Bill's height, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the norm for him.

Your friend had a prostitute in his room?

Anyway, I've lived in Japan for some time but was never confronted to such issues, especially in the hotels I've stayed at in the bigger cities, including Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Sapporo and even the smallest city in Japan: Takamatsu. Such hotels are equipped to receive foreign guests and as such, it would strike me as odd that everything was too small. Unless of course your friend is tall even for western standards. I'm pretty average at 177cm.

But then again, Coppola purposely casted an actor like Bill for the part due to his height. It helped her a great deal to bring those cliches to the front. Had she put for example Tom Cruise in that elevator, he wouldn't have stood out at all.