Can Japan Survive Mass Tourism?
How will people react when they find their favourite sushi place filled with foreigners squirting ketchup on the maguro?
Tangled Up In Tokyo: the Japanese Side of Bob Dylan
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.
Three Women, Three Rear Windows
She refused to repudiate the yakuza boss who had acted as a father-figure since her earliest days in show-biz.
Rebelling Against Reality: Jodorowsky vs. Terayama
Jodo’s father is a Stalin-worshipping sadist who insists his son bear the pain of tooth extraction without anaesthetic
R.I.P. Bowie: “Like some cat from Japan…”
David Bowie and Yukio Mishima both staged their own deaths as pieces of performance art.
New Terayama / Moriyama Project – Now on Sale!
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
Dead People Turn Into Words
After a hundred years you’ll understand what I mean. Come back in a hundred years’ time.
Electric Kabuki
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.
Terayama’s China Doll
“The director, Shuji Terayama, signed a contract stipulating at least six sexual acts…”
“I Love You, Ken Takakura”
The criminalization of sodomy that came in with a Western-style legal code in 1872 was repealed eight years later