In the late 1960s, there was a ramshackle coffee-shop called Dylan in Osaka’s Namba entertainment district which served as a meeting-place for musicians, hippies, theatre people and student radicals.
She refused to repudiate the yakuza boss who had acted as a father-figure since her earliest days in show-biz.
Jodo’s father is a Stalin-worshipping sadist who insists his son bear the pain of tooth extraction without anaesthetic
To adapt Bob Dylan, for both countries “the future is already a thing of the past.”
David Bowie and Yukio Mishima both staged their own deaths as pieces of performance art.
View Moriyama’s haunting black-and-white images, let your gaze rest on the unusual page lay-out and stroke the cover with your fingertips
On his return he was targeted for assassination by anti-foreigner extremists
After a hundred years you’ll understand what I mean. Come back in a hundred years’ time.
The first mention of curry in Japan was by the great Yukichi Fukuzawa, who we see every day staring out at us from 10,000 yen notes.
“The director, Shuji Terayama, signed a contract stipulating at least six sexual acts…”