Arnaud the writer/director of the film spent his life between France, USA and Japan and wanted to do a movie regrouping this.
He was fortunate klaus s odyssey took him there.
As neither ARNAUD or KLAUS PIERRE knew about China, they stopped filming for a few months until KP get acquainted with the Chinese culture and learned the language.
Klaus Pierre do speak some Japanese in the film thanks to the nanny he had as a child.
Mixing reality and comedy was natural when ARNAUD found KLAUS PIERRE.
KP is the person within us that wants to be free of social boundaries, wants to express himself whenever he wants and acts upon his desire. His desire are never mean or self destructive. We can see his life as sometimes sad but his goal is the experience he is having in the moment in the now, sometimes he ll reach his goal, sometimes not but whatever happens his life will be fascinating.
He did learn cat walk from the best in the fashion business, skiing from Xavier Bertoni, winner of Xgames, kung fu or wu shu from Shaolin in China and got to be on Japanese and Chinese TV. He appeared during the making of this movie on CCTV on the show "us" the biggest TV show in CHina. 500 millions people watched Klaus Pierre that day when he spoke about his vision of CHina in the future.