 Mashimo once remarked that he would like to have met the photographers Richard Avedon, Jeanloup Sieff, and Helmut Newton and film directors John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock.However, by the time the interview has been published, four of these were already dead and Avedon died later that year.Mashimo is particularly fond of the French movie "Les Aventuriers" (1967, IMDB) and has even named a character in "Madlax" after the protagonist of that film.