Many thanks to CanIndia for tweetiing their link!
Posts are starting to appear in India media in prepartaion for the release of 47 Ronin there on January 3, 2014. In an interview Keanu Reeves said the following:
“Even though everyone was really nice to me and we got along great and it developed great, I still couldn’t hang out and speak Japanese, so in a way I was always Kai. I could say ‘Good morning,’ and ‘Nice to meet you,’ and all that, but I couldn’t hang out,”
The post is here.