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Month: August 2016

  • Toco Toco on Daisuke Ishiwatari

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    Toco Toco is an interview video series directed by Anne Ferrero (who also directed the fantastic Branching Paths documentary), and the latest episode features Guilty Gear director Daisuke Ishiwatari. The series was recently re-launched and currently focuses on game creators — the previous episode focused on Suda51.

  • The Get Down

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    This show is fantastic. I’m three episodes in (of the six episodes we can currently watch, with the second half coming out at a later date), and I’m just so in love with the cast and awesome music – well, pretty much all of the music, I just don’t care for the “modern” hip-hop that opens…

  • Batman: The Killing Joke

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    I didn’t like this much. More than anything, I just thought it was boring. I do remember that the original graphic novel was a classic story back when it came out, but I haven’t read it since then (although I do still have an original copy in one of my long boxes in my parents’…

  • Twinsters

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    Watched this yesterday, a touching documentary that follows two girls born in South Korea who discover they are twins (they were each adopted, with no knowledge that they had siblings) after one spots the other in a YouTube video, and then they connect via social media. A story of our times – the power of…

  • Blogging Again?

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    What’s this, a bunch of new posts that relate to Tokyo/Japan on the site? Are you blogging regularly about that stuff again? Consider this a result of me spending the weekend digging into the archives, going through hundreds (thousands, really) of posts, and just kinda wanting to do a bit of it again. Let’s call it…

  • Masashi Wakui

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    The beautiful Tokyo street photography of Masashi Wakui is simply mesmerizing.

  • Tokyo’s Cignale Enoteca Tops Monocle’s Restaurant Awards

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    Monocle’s latest “Restaurant Awards” are included in issue 4 of The Escapist (currently in shops), and it’s again topped by a Tokyo restaurant, this time the beautifully cozy Cignale Enoteca. Watch this video to have a better look at the place, as well as an interview with the chef/owner (it’s the 3rd restaurant featured in…

  • Tokyo Taxi Prices Going Down

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    From the Monocle Minute newsletter: Car-hailing services such as Uber are posing a threat to established taxi companies the world over. That’s why Nihon Kotsu – Tokyo’s largest taxi operator – had the idea of lowering the city’s standard starting fare from ¥730 (€6.25) for the first 1km to ¥410 (€3.50) for 2km. But in this…