Month: August 2003

This week’s cover story at METROPOLIS is a feature on Tadao Ando.

And here’s why I found it so hot yesterday when I exited the airport at Narita (from Japan Today): Temperatures rose to their highest level this year in Tokyo and other parts of the Japanese archipelago Saturday, after a long spell of cold weather. In Tokyo, it was 34.1 C just before noon, the hottest…

Today was mostly packing as we get ready to head back to Tokyo. We leave tomorrow afternoon (or later today actually), and then it’s going to be a long journey that will bring me back on Saturday (we’re losing a day somewhere in there). I’ll give signs of life when I’m on the other side,…

There’s a new interview with Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa at the Midnight Eye site, as well as some reviews of his movies, including his latest one, BRIGHT FUTURE, starring Tadanobu Asano (ICHI THE KILLER).

Kristen McQuillin has launched a really cool site called Yamanote29. It’s “a collection of photos, essays, video, and audio about the Yamanote line, its stations and neighborhoods.” I use the Yamanote line every single day, so I’ll probably try sending in some stuff to the site.

I like to look at these every once in a while, and so here are the top search strings that lead here during the first 2-3 weeks of August. 1. juon 2 – There can’t be a lot of info online for this film if my site is turning up on searches. 2. battle royale…

Nadine over at Tokyo Shoes is letting people contribute to the site as guest bloggers right now. Tokyo fashions through the eyes of many is good. Good ol’ Jesper makes an appearance with, of course, some BAPE goodness.

Drool. I cannot wait for this. Update (16/08/13): The poster image isn’t available anymore. I’m not quite sure which one it was, but I do remember being incredibly excited for the film!

While in Canada I’ve been picking up THE GLOBE AND MAIL (one of Canada’s national newspapers) on Saturdays, and this past weekend the book section had a big review of 3 Japanese novels that have just been translated and released in North America through a new publisher, Vertical, that was started by a Japanese man…

Momus’ site is online again, but at a new address: imomus.com.