The frustrated, flummoxed characters in Japanese wunderkind Yuya Ishii’s semi-absurdist comedies are typically running from something. It might be the boring confines of small-town…
The name Akira Kurosawa means one thing to most people: samurai films. So it's no surprise that the various local celebrations of the director's…
4 Star Theatre. Stories from Chinese America — The Arthur Dong Collection: Screening of newly discovered 1916 film by Marion Wong also features dance…
Earlier this month, the Mission District-based hacker collective Noisebridge held a party celebrating its third anniversary. It collected $10 donations and asked partygoers to…
In the annals of audacious counterprogramming, it’s hard to beat a Yasujiro Ozu series going up against Hollywood’s summer onslaught of infantile antics and…
Did I say “Awww” at Babies? I did. Did I giggle at the adorable things babies do in Babies? Oh my, yes. Did I…
While cleaning his desk one day in the early '80s, Tokyo gangster apprentice Ishi Hideaki discovered the severed finger of his best friend wrapped…
Since launching in 1992, Tokyo's Melt-Banana has become Japan's quintessential No Wave spazz-punk outfit. While effects-whiz guitarist Agata and bassist Rika surgically intersplice short,…
Tokyo’s MONO is one of those “ya gotta see 'em live” bands. Sure, the instrumental quartet’s recordings are lovely, filled with long tracks of…
From crisis, hope.
