The Sound of the Waves: Carmen Maki Does Terayama
She is still going strong. The flame still burns.
She is still going strong. The flame still burns.
All is resolved somehow and the goat goes back to the wide open pastures of Hokkaido.
Our hero is disengaged, transgressive and filled with a restless energy that makes him dangerous – rather like his creator
Imagine that the counter-culture of the late 1960s was transposed to the last decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Highly educated people often lack a grounding in reality and are suckers for the certainty of cult-like intellectual systems
The assumption that low inflation and interest rates are here to stay would be discredited – not just in the UK, but globally
In the early 1980s, home video was in its infancy… the result is a punky, DIY aesthetic that manages to be both simple and moving
it specializes in gibier (game) meat, but presented in a Japanese rather than French format. You cook the meat on a charcoal-fired griddle.
Yang gives a moving performance as the stuttering, socially inept ex-barber with the ring-name of “Barikan” (“Clipper”).
Imagine a cross between J.G. Ballard and “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, with elements of Kafka, Saki and magical realism