La Vie Qui Bat
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 In a special [...]
The Burning Plain
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga [...]
Killer Virgin Road
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Talented writer/directors like [...]
Homecoming
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 A former high [...]
Crank 2: High Voltage
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 This is not [...]
The McJob of Asia
Thanks to the shady practices of dispatch companies, the English-teaching gravy train has derailed
Alta Mar
Set sail for a hidden treasure in the sea of Ginza extravagance
Ushinokura
Enjoy yakiniku without the grease in Akasaka
Junko Nakahama
Food journalist & tour guide
Little Shop of Horrors
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 For its 113th [...]
Mirror and Music
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Since establishing his [...]
Tsukasa Yokozawa: Parallel Lives
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Now based in [...]
Bunt
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Following in the [...]
Kawasaki Jomon 10,000 Years
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 One can’t help [...]
Intermixi
Anime tourism experiences a boom despite the gloomy economy
Japan F1 Grand Prix
It’s Brit versus Brit in Suzuka
Napalm Death
The founders of grindcore just want you to take it easy
Someno Collection
Slapdash ceramics stir the mind at the National Museum of Modern Art
Forest Conservation in Tsukuba
Is a new housing tract “green development” or short-sighted destruction?
Bathed in Blood
Director Koji Shiraishi’s torture-porn flick Grotesque gets banned in Britain—and ignites a debate about Japan’s splatter-film boom
Palau
Heaven in the Pacific... weather permitting
Kawasaki Fish Market
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 A nice sense [...]