Like the lead male character played by Tadanobu Asano in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cafe Lumiere, Katakura always carries a tape recorder with him, recording the sounds of trains all over Taiwan and listening to them over and over again at home like a true connoisseur.
就像侯孝賢的電影《珈琲時光》裡，淺野忠信所飾演的男主角一樣，片倉三不五時會帶著錄音機，在台灣各地錄製火車聲響，回家反覆聆聽賞析。