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Werner Herzog on fact and fiction in Japan’s rent-a-family business
It’s the fifth day of lockdown and Werner Herzog is on loudspeaker. His voice, a thick Bavarian drawl, comes and goes between crackles of white noise. The cult director, 77, has a famed distrust of the modern world, and prides himself on using his mobile …