If you knew Korean, you would give this 5 stars

Japanorama - Gloomy Bear :(

DOMO!!

Time to learn Japanese!

Japanese Cinema: どろろ Then and Now

Thumbs up.

Cinema Korea: The Bow, Ki-duk Kim

Ki-duk Kim

...always has a way with atmospherics:

If only I had a Japanese Playstation....

Sonic Japan: Focus on Ogikubo: Draw some Tapirs

In our continuing focus on Ogikubo, we bring you Draw Some Tapirs:
OZ clip @ ruby room shibuya

Monster Archive

Ultraman the hero ... again!

By EDAN CORKILL

Staff writer

SCENE ONE — Television production company Tsuburaya Productions' "Monster Archive," a two-story wooden shed used for storing "monsters" from long-running TV and film franchises such as "Ultraman." The location is Kinuta, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo; the date is mid-February 2008.

Close encounters inside Tsuburaya Productions' "Monster Archive" in Kinuta, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, which was closed down in February. The archive served for more than 40 years as a storage and repair facility for monster suits and other props used in making live-action sci-fi television programs such as the popular "Ultraman." The company has now built a new storage facility at an undisclosed location elsewhere in Tokyo. YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTOS / © TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS

A cleaner emerges from the second floor of the storeroom and walks down an external staircase, where another cleaner is waiting.

Cleaner 1: Did you hear they're planning to tear this place down, sell the land and move all the monsters to some spiffy new storeroom?

Cleaner 2: Really? They're going to move the Monster Archive . . . ? But this place is known as a "sacred site" in the history of live-action science-fiction TV production! That's big news!

Sonic Japan: いまっぴぃず play Turning in 荻窪

Imappies play Turning in Ogikubo:

Sonic Japan: Maikotobranco

Maikotobranco
Spectacular stuff, but I can't find any video.

Local Japan: 11 minutes from Shinjuku: Focus on Ogikubo (荻窪)

KPH is taking over this town. Here are some highlights. Will be building on this in a future feature:
Live House:
Turning
Rooster
Velvet Sun

Video:
Live at Rooster North Side:


Live at Velvet Sun:

Sonic Japan: Tokyo Pinsalocks, Coming to the US this month

Sonic Japan: Chocolat and Akito: Tuning

Do you like funk, or do you like funky? Dig it.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/chocolatakito

Sonic Japan: Cat-o’-nine-tails

Really really nice. Also check out their myspace.

Sonic Japan: Luminous Orange, Yokohama

Could we be so blessed as to have a 仮面ライダー movie in the US?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0937403/

Kaiju Japan/怪獣日本: Shoutout to カネゴン!