Rock and roll has been a part of Japanese music and culture since the 1950s, though it gained both prominence and popularity in the 1960s with the rise of the “Group Sounds” bands, which were influenced by popular Western rock bands like the Beatles. Western music largely set the path ...
They both realize that when things are pushed down, and feelings are forced to shrivel away, Coley and Sonya will be the ones to shrink. It’s not until they accept the love they fear and deserve most, that suddenly the song makes sense. Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon | B&N | IndieBound...
the mods and rockers of the 1960s and 70s in England, the grunge of the 1980s and 90s, to name a few. Each subculture sits within a broader ‘parent’ culture and can often give us an insight into cultural fears and hopes, especially in the youth of the population. ...
The samurai film is probably the most popular type of Japanese action film, with stories of lone warriors on a quest to fulfill their destiny. This list of Japanese actions movies is a great place to find the best the island nation has to offer, whether it’s for a weekend movie night,...
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After you watch “Tetsuo”, you’ll understand the cosmic horror behind the Styx song “Mr Roboto”: “You’re wondering who I am. Machine or mannequin. With parts made in Japan”. Released in 1989, this low-budget cyberpunk horror was mostly filmed in the director’s apartment. His exp...
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed th
21. Preface to the Japanese edition of The Orphan of Asia. In: Chang S, Yeh M, Fan M (ed.) The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press; 2014. p.202-203. https://doi.org/10.7312/chan16576-077 Copied to clipboard Copy to ...
And there’s not too many Japanese movies that get namechecked on The Simpsons (‘Come on, Homer, Japan will be fun! You liked Rashomon.’‘That’s not how I remember it’). Kurosawa shows us the same incident – the murder of a samurai in the Kyoto countryside – from four ...
Curiously, when the Japanese granted the Philippines their version of Independence, they handed out these leaflets that actually bore a part of the song Pambansang Awit ng Pilipinas, (National Song of the Philippines). The two words on the leaflet are: Independence Freedom A Filipino wrote on th...