Paul Schrader

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Big Time Gambling Boss: Yukio Mishima’s Favourite Yakuza Movie

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When Tsuruta heard what had happened, he unsheathed his ceremonial sword and wept.

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Martin Scorsese’s Searing “Silence”

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Scorsese’s favoured milieu is the “mean streets” of inner city America, where he grew up, with their violence, profanity and crime

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Tangled Up In Tokyo: the Japanese Side of Bob Dylan

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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.