Set Still Photographer "Sideways" Japan

I Just fininshed working on a movie called "Sideways" an adaption of the American drama/comedy for the Japanese market.  It is the first Japanese production funded in Japan with a Japanese cast and a American crew. You see America copying movies all the time, but this is a first for Japan! anyway I am the still or set photographer....... if there are any set photographers out there I want to know if you get as little "love" as we in the USA get! I am pushed around and shoved into the tiniest of spaces trying to get a shot.... ha ! From what I hear the stills photographer gets a lot more respect in other countries !! Anyway we shot around the usual tourist places  like the Chinese Theatre, Malibu, LAX, Hollywood, San Francisco on our way up to Napa Valley where the main part of the film takes place.         We stayed in Santa Rosa and had the usual hardships of any film that you can now look back upon and laugh!! well sometimes!! we had the teamsters strike our set beating drums and chanting "WE WANT CONTRACT" at the top of their lungs!! I hear there are no unions in Asia?? maybe just the Mafia !! We lost sets (huge vineyards)and had rain during our only outdoor scenes...... luckily our crew was great and the actors were cool... Kyoka Suzuki, Fumio Kohinata, Katsu Namase and oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi from Babel. everything always seems to fall into place with the chaos and drama. Sometimes you even have a good movie come out of it too. Well to any and all of you that are on set (especially talent, producers, DPs and Camera crew! ).......if you see the stills guy squished up in a little corner with numerous people telling him to "get out " please say hi for me and give them a little love! There is probably a place for them to stand near you!!!  I know they need it sometimes !! Remember everyone from the studio/ publicity/ marketing and  talent/crew will want and need these pictures LATER........ it always happens!!