Adam Garrett went into the credit crisis an equity quant trader for Lehman Brothers Holdings in Tokyo. He came out Guy Orlebar, director, film financier and producer of "Future Fighters," a sci-fi action movie starring "Kill Bill's" Gordon Liu.
As banks and insurance companies wrote down $1.8 trillion after the September 2008 collapse of Lehman, a few of the 346,000 workers they fired invested their severance pay in pursuing dreams. Others left voluntarily for work outside finance — from protecting tigers to making skis.
Lehman's Tokyo office produced two filmmakers. One was the Oxford-educated Garrett, who uses his two middle names for film-related work; the other was Eric Nyari, whose first movie, "Wakiyaku Monogatari," opens in Tokyo next month.