Attacks at sea by Greenpeace and other groups on Japanese whaling ships have played into the hands of Tokyo's whaling negotiators, who have portrayed the made-for-TV brawls as eco-terrorism.
The Auteurs is Cakarel's brainchild: an ambitious former Goldman Sachs banker with a head for technology, he came up with the idea back in 2007 in Tokyo when, with some spare time on his hands, he tried to watch Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" on the Internet.