Dragon Dance: Reloaded
My 2003 novel Dragon Dance has just been re-issued in digital form at the extraordinary bargain price of $3.91.
Tokyo Noir – The Silent Dead
“You’re an ignorant potato-eating slut from the boonies..”
Night Opens My Dreams: Kan Mikami’s North Country Blues
He is also an actor with credits in Nikkatsu’s “Roman Porno” movies and the legendary gangster series “Battles without Honour and Humanity”
One More Cup of Saké for the Road: Dylan Translated and Transformed
Borges favoured “happy and creative infidelity” and rejected the very concept of a definitive text.
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