The process of working with Noda on the script of One Green Bottle was intense but enjoyable, Sharpe recalls, the two writers digging down into the differences between English and Japanese humour.
One Green Bottle began life at the TMT in 2010 as the slapstick Japanese-language comedy Omote ni Deroi!
But collaborating with Noda on One Green Bottle was an entirely new way of working.
Will Sharpe, writer and director of the Channel 4 comedy drama Flowers, which returns for a second series this summer, was born in London but lived in Japan until the age of eight.