I’m back after a two day layoff (for a rather interesting reason that I might blog about later!) with this rather difficult-to-translate f....
19 Sep 11:58 pm  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I love how this narrow Nishi Azabu Juban is defined by the street tree out front. The bar and tree are named カクレミノ (kakuremino, o....
17 Sep 9:18 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan is famous for its vending machines. Sometimes it seems like you can find a vending machine on every corner, at every ....
19 Aug 5:58 pm  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 

In Darkness, Death is the title of the third book in the Samurai Mysteries series written by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. I ....
25 Jul 9:59 am  from  Jamaipanese   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I was startled by this tiny garden door, not much taller than the bike’s handlebar. It’s amazing that in Harajuku there are still some ....
21 Jul 9:05 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The Japanese movie site Cinema Today has posted the new full trailer for Akira Ogata‘s Shikeidai no Elevator, which is a remake of Louis M....
2 Jul 7:53 am  from  Nippon Cinema   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The official website for KING GAME, the latest live-action film by manga artist Tatsuya Egawa (Golden Boy, Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari), has be....
30 Jun 2:56 pm  from  Nippon Cinema   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The second book in the Samurai Mysteries series in The Demon in the Teahouse. It picks up right after the exciting happenin....
27 Jun 1:00 am  from  Jamaipanese   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Yesterday it was announced that manga artist Tatsuya Egawa (Golden Boy, Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari) has completed work on his second live-acti....
11 Jun 3:32 pm  from  Nippon Cinema   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Good news all around for fans of director Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls, Memories of Matsuko). Today, Subway Cinema kicked off a week-lo....
20 May 8:47 am  from  Nippon Cinema   [Profile]  [Recent] 

After enjoying the first book in the Samurai Mysteries series called The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn I moved on to the second ....
11 May 11:55 pm  from  Jamaipanese   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Let me start off by saying The Ghost on the Tokaido Inn is an awesome book. The experience reading it is everything and mor....
28 Apr 6:37 am  from  Jamaipanese   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I have been mostly staying true to my promise of trying to rekindle my long extinguished book worm fire but reading before I fall asleep at ....
22 Mar 11:15 pm  from  Jamaipanese   [Profile]  [Recent] 

A full trailer has been released for Tetsuya Nakashima‘s upcoming film Kokuhaku (Confession). In addition to showing off some of the stunn....
13 Mar 8:38 am  from  Nippon Cinema   [Profile]  [Recent] 

As I was walking towards Ebisu from Shibuya together with two friends, we came across this weird looking building entrance somewhere in Daik....
8 Feb 10:27 am  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Here’s the first teaser trailer for Tetsuya Nakashima‘s Kokuhaku (Confession), which is based on an award-winning novel by written by ro....
23 Jan 6:24 am  from  Nippon Cinema   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japanese film company Nikkatsu and their media distribution partner Happinet recently released the 3rd film of the Detective Office 5 series....
17 Dec 8:29 am  from  Nippon Cinema   [Profile]  [Recent]