Jonathan Ross spends six episodes tracking down the people who make Japan's pop culture strange and influential, from manga studios to kaiju sets. He sits down with Kazuo Koike, the writer behind Lone Wolf and Cub, and with director Takeshi Miike, and visits the set of the current Ultraman series while it is in production. In one segment, former Godzilla suit actors stomp through miniature buildings again, demonstrating the practical effects that built the franchise. Clips from Ringu, Spirited Away, Audition, and Akira Kurosawa's films fill out a survey of Japanese cinema, and manga artist Junko Mizuno gets her own segment on her distinctive character designs. Ross plays enthusiastic outsider throughout, asking directors and animators to explain choices a foreign audience might miss, rather than treating the material as exotic scenery. The series moves fast between studios, soundstages, and interview rooms, stacking up firsthand testimony from the people actually making anime, tokusatsu, and manga rather than summarizing their work secondhand.