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Stand-up Steaks
Japanese steaks without the fuss
Cinematic Spirits
Party like a movie star
Commuter Gamer
Three new titles to challenge your daily commute
Traces of Disappearance
A fashionable look at the ephemeral in Omotesando
Waiting for Beckett
Mouth on Fire brings Irish absurdist theatre to the land of noh
Harold Pinter Night
Two plays from the Nobel Prize-winner
Uhnellys
Rock-digital hybrid unit kick it up a notch with new album
Torifune Butoh-Sha
Two performances by an acclaimed butoh practicioner
Gallowwalkers
Gruesome and almost unwatchable
Frozen
Nicely animated, pro-girl animation
The Lego Movie
Fast, fresh and absurdly enjoyable
Don Jon
Serious message delivered lightly
All is Lost
Minimalist movie making to the max
One Chance
True-ish story of amateur opera sensation Paul Potts
Lone Survivor
No politics, just battlefield realism
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Uneven, uninvolving bomb
Fruitvale Station
Michael B. Jordan leads a superb cast
Ask Metropolis Anything vol.1
First edition of our new advice column
Saving Mr. Banks
Sentimentalized, sanitized story of the making of Mary Poppins
2014 Hanami Helpers
Bring an amazing spread to your picnic or have it all done for you
Morrie
Music with an exclamation point
Mar 14, 2014
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2014 World Kidney Day [...]