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Against the Dark - Metropolis Japan

Against the Dark

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 A Steven Seagal [...]

La Vie Qui Bat - Metropolis Japan

La Vie Qui Bat

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 In a special [...]

The Burning Plain - Metropolis Japan

The Burning Plain

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga [...]

Killer Virgin Road - Metropolis Japan

Killer Virgin Road

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Talented writer/directors like [...]

Homecoming - Metropolis Japan

Homecoming

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 A former high [...]

Crank 2: High Voltage - Metropolis Japan

Crank 2: High Voltage

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 This is not [...]

The McJob  of Asia - Metropolis Japan

The McJob of Asia

Thanks to the shady practices of dispatch companies, the English-teaching gravy train has derailed

Alta Mar - Metropolis Japan

Alta Mar

Set sail for a hidden treasure in the sea of Ginza extravagance

Ushinokura - Metropolis Japan

Ushinokura

Enjoy yakiniku without the grease in Akasaka

Junko Nakahama - Metropolis Japan

Junko Nakahama

Food journalist & tour guide

Little Shop of Horrors - Metropolis Japan

Little Shop of Horrors

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 For its 113th [...]

Mirror and Music - Metropolis Japan

Mirror and Music

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Since establishing his [...]

Tsukasa Yokozawa: Parallel Lives - Metropolis Japan

Tsukasa Yokozawa: Parallel Lives

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Now based in [...]

Bunt - Metropolis Japan

Bunt

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 Following in the [...]

Kawasaki Jomon 10,000 Years - Metropolis Japan

Kawasaki Jomon 10,000 Years

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 One can’t help [...]

Intermixi - Metropolis Japan

Intermixi

Anime tourism experiences a boom despite the gloomy economy

Japan F1 Grand Prix - Metropolis Japan

Japan F1 Grand Prix

It’s Brit versus Brit in Suzuka

Napalm Death - Metropolis Japan

Napalm Death

The founders of grindcore just want you to take it easy

Someno Collection - Metropolis Japan

Someno Collection

Slapdash ceramics stir the mind at the National Museum of Modern Art

Forest Conservation in Tsukuba - Metropolis Japan

Forest Conservation in Tsukuba

Is a new housing tract “green development” or short-sighted destruction?

Bathed in Blood - Metropolis Japan

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 - Metropolis Japan

Palau

Heaven in the Pacific... weather permitting

Kawasaki Fish Market - Metropolis Japan

Kawasaki Fish Market

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 A nice sense [...]

That’s One Rockin’ Rabbit - Metropolis Japan

That’s One Rockin’ Rabbit

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 This column lost [...]