Tatsuya Ishii cuts a trim figure in his mid-30s. To look at him now, it is hard to believe that in his mid-teens he had a complex because of his weight. It was back then that he first heard of the Sex Pistols, after his classmate Soma played him the Sid Vicious version of "My Way."
Tatsuya was blown away. A year on a paper run eventually lifted 10 kilos off his frame and liberated him from his dowdy wardrobe. Suddenly he was able to dress like his hero -- Sid.
"Whoever heard of a fat punk?" Ishii posits in his gentle speaking voice. His calm, composed manner also makes it hard to imagine him as a hardcore punk. But he was -- complete with spiky hair and a padlock on a chain around his neck.