Fresh out of a Parisian film school, NICHOLAS BORNOFF worked in Indonesia, sparking his lasting fascination with the Far East. Later he moved to Japan for a job in a Tokyo advertising agency, and then was a film critic for The Japan Times. Now in London with his Japanese wife and young son, Bornoff writes articles appearing in The Guardian and many other publications in Europe and the United Kingdom. Bornoff is the author of two books.