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“When Terayama first heard her sing “When the Night Ends” he felt as if an electric shock had run through him…”
Shuji Terayama
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He is also an actor with credits in Nikkatsu’s “Roman Porno” movies and the legendary gangster series “Battles without Honour and Humanity”
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She refused to repudiate the yakuza boss who had acted as a father-figure since her earliest days in show-biz.
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Jodo’s father is a Stalin-worshipping sadist who insists his son bear the pain of tooth extraction without anaesthetic
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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
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After a hundred years you’ll understand what I mean. Come back in a hundred years’ time.
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“The director, Shuji Terayama, signed a contract stipulating at least six sexual acts…”
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The criminalization of sodomy that came in with a Western-style legal code in 1872 was repealed eight years later
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Seazer / Caesar was a futenzoku (Japanese hippie) who dropped out of art-school and joined Terayama’s avant garde theatre troupe in 1969
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The book has lent its name to a fine, cask-aged barley shochu, apparently much appreciated by Japan’s Crown Prince.