FREEDOM was a "special project•bCrLf to the people who made it, so here is a special review, written in real time, minimally edited, with the aid of a six-pack of Anchor Steam Liberty Ale. Heads up! Here comes an opening sequence: cell shaded screen tone …Read more »
Japanese popular music outside of Japan used to be a mysterious and obscure no-man'sland accessible only to record collectors and people with enough money to blow on pricey imports. But now, thanks to YouTube, it's as easy as punching the following names into a search …Read more »
I had no idea that when my friend Coatea invited me to see her band The Feminine play their second-ever show at club Heavy Sick in Tokyo that one day they would be rocking the Western world via an appearance on Jonathan Ross's Japanorama TV …Read more »
[Excerpted from the December 2007 issue of Otaku USA magazine Ryuhei Kitamura is a giant among Japanese film directors. The only catch is, he's not in Japan anymore. A newly minted Los Angelino, Kitamura is currently prepping his US film debut with Midnight Meat Train, …Read more »
Rocket K Time Machine Rk Marguerite Music, 2007 If your ears are anything like mine, you enjoy music as it is for the most part, yet are you sometimes left with the nagging suspicion that nearly every song ever written could be vastly improved by …Read more »
[Interview excerpted from the December 2007 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. William Tsutusi and David Cox are real smart guys. William is an associate professor of history at the University of Kansas. David teaches multimedia at San Francisco City College. Both are rabid Godzilla fans, …Read more »
The Captains In a Cage of Roses Last G.S. Records, 2007 "Have you ever heard The Captains? They're one of my favorite bands right now. I'm currently working on setting up a fall US tour for them and I'm also going to be releasing their …Read more »
In the new episode of Karas , a gangster fat cat in a fur-lined coat shoves a gun in our hero's face and says it best, "This city takes in anyone that comes its way. Even the worst scum can find some small function to …Read more »
Patrick Macias
