Date: May, 2011
Venue: Death By Audio (NY)

Text by Jim Hoey

What should be known about this guitar drums duo is that they are former/current members of Afrirampo and Acid Mothers Temple, 2 hard hitting punk/psychedelic rock bands from Japan. Also to be know is that they are in the middle of a one month tour of the US, and if you find yourself on the east coast or somewhere between NYC and southern California, you might be close enough to road trip over to one of their gigs soon.
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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

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Date: Monday, March 21, 2011
Time: 7:30pm – 11:30pm
Venue: Brooklyn Winery (213 N. 8th Street, between Roebling Street and Driggs Avenue, Williamsburg, NY
Ticket: $10 min. donation at door, all proceeds and all wine sales go directly to the Lions Club Japan Earthquarke Fund.

About this event

Live From Tokyo, Hideo Nakamura and Sai Morikawa are hosting a benefit screening and concert event for the earthquake / tsunami victims of Japan sponsored by Brooklyn Winery. Please come out, support Japan in their time of need, enjoy some Japanese influenced sights and sounds and delicious wine!!

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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

My dear readers!

I’m sure you’re informed about what happened in my Japan which I left almost three years ago. But let me describe me the present situation shortly.

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Story

Asami was thought killed after being betrayed by Junko (Rena Komine), but she suddenly returns to town after a 2 years. However, a lot has changed since she was last around. Yakuza have taken over the town and the powerful Kanto Sukeban Alliance which Asami once headed had been completely decimated in the process, with former members now turning to drugs and prostitution. Under the guise of sukeban hunting, Junko had led her old friends to slaughter at the hands of yakuza boss Murakawa (Jiro Sato). Because of this, Asami has gradually been enveloped by flames of rage. Meanwhile, four yakuza hunters pledge their lives to her cause as the stage is set for a final bloody battle at Tokyo Bay.”
- Nipponcinema.com
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Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Kazushi Nakadaira
Writers: Kazushi Nakadaira (screenplay), Makoto Shinozaki (story)
Stars: Asami, Rena Komine and Kenji Motomiya

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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Wintertime…. in New York, and I’m missing my Japanese snow monkeys!!! Did you know that the snow monkeys are the most northerly non-human primate in the world?  When temperatures drop to below freezing and snow covers their habitat, they spend the winter warming up in the volcanic hot springs called onsen in Japanese. If you have a day to spare on your trip to Tokyo, consider visiting the Jigokudani Monkey Park (地獄谷野猿公苑 Jigokudani Yaen Kōen). The park is located in Yamanouchi (a Northern Nagano Prefecture).

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Date: October 29, 2010
Venue: Asia Sociey (NY)
Presented by Asia Society and New York-Tokyo

Text by Jim Hoey   
 
What first caught my eye about the film Live From Tokyo was the mention of these obscure Japanese bands that most people I meet from Japan have never heard of: Kirihito, the Boredoms (or one of their side projects) or eX-girl. Float these names to your average Japanese visitor in New York and you get a blank stare or some polite response, just like if an American visits Tokyo and some crazed Japanese music-obsessive with a knowledge of enough English starts to ask questions about Lightning Bolt, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, the Minutemen, or Faith No More. The average guy on vacation is just like, “Sorry man, I don’t know those bands”. And if you meet someone who DOES, and YOU are the obsessive, you have an instant connection and end up in a long conversation about what’s new and on the way up, and you feel good exchanging information that has yet to permeate the further layers of the cultural experience elsewhere in the world.

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Pamela Z website

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