| Island shots | Music | 00:00 |
| | MCLEOD: Of the more than three thousand islands that make up Japan, Naoshima is a little different. | 00:11 |
| Modern art shots on beach | Music | 00:17 |
| | MCLEOD: This is an island where creativity reigns supreme. | 00:23 |
| Crazy houses | Music | 00:29 |
| | MCLEOD: From crazy houses, with kitsch credibility, | 00:32 |
| Art museum | to modern museums, with million dollar Monets. | 00:35 |
| Modern art | Music | 00:39 |
| | MCLEOD: Naoshima is Japan's Island of Art. | 00:46 |
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| McLeod and Fukutake walking through museum | MCLEOD: The man behind it all is Soichiro Fukutake. | 00:56 |
| | FUKUTAKE: This is the combination of art and nature. It’s really never been done before. | 01:00 |
| Art pieces | It's the first experiment of its kind in the world, and it's been a success. | 01:08 |
| Inside museum. McLeod and Fukutake | Music | 01:16 |
| At neon installation | MCLEOD: This heir to a publishing and education conglomerate has made Naoshima – and art – his passion. | 01:21 |
| Installations | He's set up museums and art installations to show off the multi-million dollar collection he's amassed. | 01:31 |
| Sequence with quick cuts - McLeod and Fukutake on big rocks | Music | 01:36 |
| More art | MCLEOD: Part of Mr. Fukutake's philosophy is to create something quite different. | 01:44 |
| | Music | 01:48 |
| Outdoor installations | MCLEOD: An island where the maelstrom of modern Japan can be left behind. And where Art and Nature combine. | 01:51 |
| McLeod and Fukutake at pumpkin sculpture | Music | 01:58 |
| | FUKUTAKE” Modern societies destroy their culture, just to re-create it. | 02:04 |
| Fukutake | In my view, I treasure the idea of making the best use of the culture we have to create something that we didn’t have before. | 02:10 |
| Ferries | MCLEOD: Like many small islands in Japan's inland sea, Naoshima has an industrial past. | 02:20 |
| Factory | This metals recycling factory has been the largest traditional employer. | 02:28 |
| Ferry Arrives past red pumpkin | But now there's a different way of looking at Naoshima. | 02:37 |
| Passengers off ferry | And the visitors are coming in droves. | 02:43 |
| Takahashi guides group | It's meant something of a change for the island's three thousand residents. | 02:51 |
| | Akinori Takahashi is part of an army of Naoshimans who've taken on new roles as art experts. | 02:56 |
| | TAKAHASHI: Everyone is surprised that us elderly people | 03:05 |
| Takahashi | are being the tour guides. | 03:13 |
| Art houses | Music | 03:17 |
| | MCLEOD: The former homes of fishermen and factory workers are becoming art sites of their own. But some locals admit they can't work out what it's all about. | 03:26 |
| Grandmas on Street | GRANDMA: I think it's nice. I saw the Monet ‘Water Lilies’ at the Chichu Museum -- but if I say it in Naoshima dialect, it's like "How much does it cost". I asked how much and they said hundreds of millions. Even if I owned it, I wouldn't have a house to put it in! | 03:41 |
| Grandmas laugh | Music | 04:04 |
| Sakaitani walks into garden with McLeod and through door | MCLEOD: Others have embraced the artistic trend. Akiko Sakaitani has opened up her house as a gallery of local history. | 04:08 |
| Sakaitani shows artefacts | SAKAITANI: I wanted to be helpful in revitalising Naoshima town. And at the same time, it's delightful to be able to talk about the path my ancestors followed. | 04:20 |
| Sakaitani | It gives me joy to see happy faces when I explain about these artefacts. | 04:35 |
| Sculptures by sea | MCLEOD: Not everyone may understand, but linking art and the community has been part of the goal. | 04:46 |
| Street shots | FUKUTAKE Japan will become a significantly aged society, and I think I've found a formula to revitalise ageing and depopulated areas. | 04:58 |
| Fukutake | Using this formula I want to make these depopulated areas with lots of elderly people, into affluent areas that have the most smiling faces in the country. | 05:12 |
| Ferries pass | Music | 05:30 |
| | MCLEOD: In other parts of Japan populations are shrinking, as small towns lose residents and turn grey. | 05:39 |
| Sculptures | But Naoshima has a chance to buck that trend. | 05:51 |
| Credits: | Reporter: Shane McLeod Camera: Jun Matsuzono Editor: Simon Brynjolffssen | 06:01 |
