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GS: How long were you in New York?
Nijo: I stayed a couple of months.
GS: You had an apartment?
Nijo: My friend had a condominium in Manhattan. He lives in Japan. He's a photographer, older. I know him a long time. He permit me to live in his condominium, just a couple of months. Then I came to LA for just a week. Then I went back to New York, then back to Japan.
| "Then I started working in a Japanese restaurant in Beverly Hills, a famous one, as a hostess and maitre'd. That was very cheap money. I couldn't get enough money to live." |
GS: Why did you go back to Japan.
Nijo: It was just holiday, vacation to [get to] know [whether I can] live in LA or New York.
GS: What was your impression when you first saw New York?
Nijo: New York is beautiful! I love New York! But if I live there, [it would be] too hard. The weather, jobŠ
GS: What was your impression of LA?
Nijo: When I first came, I hated it.
GS: Why did you hate it?
Nijo: People have a big wall in front of them, I can't get in. But New York people are different, very kind. LA people, they're nice the first time, but it's just fake. If something happens to you, they never take care of you.
GS: How long did you go back to Japan for?
Nijo: Two or three months. Then I came back to LA.
GS: Why?
Nijo: Because movie-making [is] in L.A.
GS: So you came back in January?
Nijo: Yes, of 92.
GS: What did you do here?
Nijo: I had made some money in Japan. I didn't do anything for a couple months. I was just living. I didn't know how I'm going to work here, anything. I didn't know how to join inside.
GS: You found an apartment by yourself?
Nijo: My friend Taka Ichise is a big movie producer in Japan and he made a movie company here. That company was [based out of] a house. He was looking for a person to take care of the house and I started living in the house.
GS: Where was the house?
Nijo: It was in the Hollywood Hills, later it became Bel Air. Then he hired one guy who was living with me in the house. I treated him like just a roommate but he was changing [his] mind. So I was very uncomfortable and I [got] out of the house.
GS: How long after you moved there did you get out of the house?
Nijo: Six months.
GS: In July of 92?
Nijo: Yeah. I hadn't a job, I hadn't money, I hadn't a house, I hadn't even a car. I didn't know many people here. Where to get a job? I tried one girl. She [had been] very good to me before. She said, 'You can live with me.' After I got out of the house, she left me in the Burger King in Hollywood and she went somewhere and didn't come back. And she took my things.
GS: You mean like clothes?
Nijo: Yeah. After that I figured out she is doing [the same thing] to everybody.
GS: You had moved in with her for a while?
Nijo: No, not at all. She left me at Burger King in Hollywood and she
[was] gone.
GS: After you left the house you met her at Burger King?
Nijo: She took me to Burger King.
GS: And you had your suitcases?
Nijo: And I had a cat. And [the woman] was gone and she didn't come back and I was panicked. I called a lot of people, but everybody was home. I couldn't reach anybody. I reached one American woman. She was a very kind person. PAGE 4
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