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Hadn’t been to Kanda-Jimbocho in quite some time, perhaps 9 or so months, but went there the other week to look for a book for an overseas customer. I ran into this rather startling site — the Jimbocho Theater, which is owned by the publishing house Shogakukan

German filmmaker and photographer Wim Wenders will be in town later this month for a couple (perhaps more?) events that those in the Tokyo area might be interested in. At the new Omotesando Hills building there will be an exhibition entitled Journey to Onomichi, featuring photos by Wenders and his wife Donata, which will run [...]

Since I began my journey more or less with Ozu, it was a nice feeling to complete a circle of sorts and end my trip (more or less) by making a visit to the Seishunkan in Matsusaka (Mie prefecture). seishun means youth and the seishunkan is a museum dedicated to the period of the great [...]

I just noticed that the trailer for Memoirs of a Geisha is online. As all movie trailers seem to do, it makes it look like one hell of an action packed flick. Of course I was keen to see if those murmurings about pancake makeup being deemed too scary were true, but the jury is [...]

This is the kind of thing that just gets my goat, though naturally I find none of it surprising. In a Guardian piece about the Spielberg-produced film Memoirs of a Geisha, based on Arthur Golden’s best selling novel, there was this little tidbit: The geisha’s traditional white make-up [...] has been deemed too scary for [...]

Just added this sheet of stamps to my Ozu pages.