Neighbourhood - Onehunga (with Hiroshi Nakatsuji)

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2012

I guess it's every person trying to bring their own perspective on different topics, so if we're talking about a short story, but the short story was about something — politics, or the international economy — then that's a trigger for us to start talking about the whole world and how we perceive the world.

– A member of Onehunga's Spanish speakers' book club describes a meeting

I never questioned my cultural identity growing up in Japan — I never had to, because in the 1980s and early 1990s almost 100 percent of people living there were Japanese ... it's only after leaving Japan that I started examining my Japanese identity ... I think it's normal for feelings of connection to intensify when we are far from home.

– Presenter Hiroshi Nakatsuji on growing up in Japan

Now if you go to the Warehouse or something [there's] lots of $3, $5, $10 Chinese beautiful pots there. Many people choose that, not like $20, $30 — that's too expensive. It's really difficult to get a living from pottery income.

– Japanese ceramicist Sanae Shirai on her love of pottery and the economic realities

Onehunga High School was one of the first places that I went by myself, without my parents. It was very friendly, a really great place, I thought at the time. Especially as I didn't know any English so I really needed all the support I could get.

– Russian-born Leila Ataya on her teenage years in Onehunga

What I really like about Onehunga is that you find a big diversity of people, and it's a simple place, it's not 'high fashion'. It's just simple, it's pleasant. You find everything.

– Simona Vanni on what she enjoys about her suburb

Food for the Italian culture is everything, it's what keeps us together. If I'm sick the first thing that my mum would do is feed me, and I do the same ... with everybody that I love, I just cook for them.

– Simona Vanni on the importance of food in her culture