{"id":2351,"date":"2025-02-02T00:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T08:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/?page_id=2351"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:32:28","slug":"showdown-at-shinagawa-tales-of-filming-from-bombay-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/showdown-at-shinagawa-tales-of-filming-from-bombay-to-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Showdown At Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By BILL ZARCHY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Bill Zarchy\u2019s new book tells true stories from his long career as a director of photography, working on film and digital cinema shoots across the U.S. and all around the world\u2014Japan, India, China, Uganda, the Philippines, New Zealand, France, Singapore, England, Taiwan, Mexico, and Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showdown <\/em>features 18 tales in all, the rich experiences of a cinematographer whose assignments have taken him to 30 countries and 40 states.  Zarchy brings us along for the ride on a darkly funny bus trip down India\u2019s deadly Bombay-Pune Road in \u201cWrecks and Pissers,\u201d drags us through the disorienting milieu of one of Singapore\u2019s high-tech cleanrooms in \u201cNo Worry, Chicken Curry,\u201d faces a surreal Japanese bowling-for-budget match in the title story \u201cShowdown at Shinagawa,\u201d and shares the challenge of filming former President Clinton while dealing with family tragedy in \u201cDog Years.\u201d And so on, across six continents, over three decades of his work as a director of photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showdown At Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By BILL ZARCHY Bill Zarchy\u2019s new book tells true stories from his long career as a director of photography, working on film and digital cinema shoots across the U.S. and all around the world\u2014Japan, India, China, Uganda, the Philippines, New Zealand, France, Singapore, England, Taiwan, Mexico, and Brazil. Showdown features 18 tales in all, the rich […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1324g-BV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}