Metropolis
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Home Cookin’
Mama’s grub in stylish Roppongi digs
Wakanui
Tokyo’s meat renaissance continues
Can’t Stop the K-Pop
J-pop is losing the popularity contest in the West
February 16, 2012
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2012 Gakugei Daigaku’ sushi [...]
Legacy of Love
Metropolis chats to Attorney at Law Hangnyeon Chang, AITS LPC
Getting Zesty
Beat the flu—do the yuzu
Pizza
Tuscan treats in Gakugei-daigaku
Berlinale
Japanese claimants to the Golden Bear
Melancholia
Inaccessible yet compulsively watchable filmmaker + disaster genre
Thriller Night
Unearthing the other side of cinema
The Unforgettable Fire
Photographer Paule Saviano finds a light that shines in the eyes of survivors
February 15, 2012
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2012 Blazing Torches at [...]
February 15, 2012
This week’s required reading
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Cathartic, illuminating and honestly (mostly) moving
Yokoso Kyogen
Manzo Nomura and Thane Camus bring “mad words” to the barbarians
Sourced
The taste of Shikoku
February 14, 2012
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2012 A monkey bathes [...]
Kitsutsuki to Ame
Treads a fine line between sweet and saccharine
Internet Art Future
Artistic possibilities enabled by new connectivity
The Tournament
Bright spot a drunken priest
Capacity of the Queen
Oddly driving the impure, mythical world’s fragments
Still/Life
Qudus Onikeku on what turns man into a monster