Yoshiki Hayashi hardly sleeps. The drummer, pianist, songwriter and leader of rock band X Japan has been in and out of the country constantly these past few months, promoting his band¡¯s new documentary film, ¡°We Are X.¡± At the same time he has been performing solo concerts, recording and squeezing in all the things the rest of us simply recognize as everyday life.
In one scene of ¡°We Are X,¡± he speaks of his sleeping patterns: not much on a daily basis, but he takes a day every two weeks in which he sleeps for about 10 hours straight. Aside from that, he is working.
After a slew of appearances and screenings at film festivals around the world, including South By Southwest and Sundance, the documentary, directed by American Stephen Kijak (¡°Stones In Exile¡°), finally hit Japanese theaters on March 3.
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