One afternoon, I was out listening to music on a walk. A guy stopped me on the sidewalk in front of a church to inform me that walking around outside with both earbuds in isn’t safe. He thought I didn’t realize it’s important to be able to hear […]
Hidari is stop-motion chanbara goodness! Watch here. (Thanks, Dr. O!)
Shout Factory is hosting a crazy number of livestreams on YouTube right now via TokuSHOUTsu! Pick your poison here.
Our friends at the Projection Booth discuss the 1970 Toshio Matsumoto film, Demons! “We conclude a month of discussing Japanese films with a look at Toshio Matsumoto’s 1971 film Demons AKA Shura AKA Pandemonium. The story of the film is part of the fabric of the larger 47 […]
It’s annual list time where I share things I liked in the last year. I usually try to write about things I haven’t written about before, but the world is not what it was and perhaps next year I will be back to that or perhaps on to […]
Japan Times profiled Seizo Fukumoto, an actor who specialized in ugly deaths in period samurai movies. “As a young actor, one of Fukumoto’s own role models was not a martial artist at all but Charlie Chaplin….’I thought the way he fell was great. He went down with a […]
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