I first saw Cat Soup (ねこぢる草) back when I was taking Japanese culture classes at The Ohio State University. We were lucky enough to watch it in class, and it was pretty awesome. Surprisingly, I’d forgotten about it until just recently, so I watched it again. Now I wish that I’d remembered Cat Soup when [...]
Many many moons ago when I was still an intern here at Tofugu, I wrote an article about Imaginary Flying Machines and their melodic death metal album Princess Ghibli. For those of you who missed the post (summer 2011 was a long time ago, after all) you can check it out here. But, bottom line [...]
Message From Space is a Japanese film from 1978 that has no qualms about ripping many of its ideas from 1977′s Star Wars. The film was produced by Toei and cost $6 million dollars, the most expensive movie made in Japan up to that date. Despite the high production values, most of the special effects [...]
Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I have a thing for watches. I have frittered away many hours on watch forums, Amazon, YouTube, and eBay looking at watches, deciding what watch brands are worth the money and which ones are pure crap. As I am not yet a rich man I cannot at [...]
A while back I wrote a post detailing the Top 10 Strange Japanese Films You Need to Watch and one movie that came up in the comments a lot was Big Man Japan. Unfortunately at the time of writing that post I had not seen the film even though I was very interested in it [...]
Well 2012 is here so you might be asking yourself “what new J-drama should I kick the year off with?” Luckily for you I’ve just recently found one that I really like and have no qualms about recommending to everyone and anyone. And that drama is Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu (私が恋愛できない理由 ((The Reason I [...]
*If you just want the invite to get into Pixiv.com’s alpha testing group, skip down to the bottom of the article. Maybe you’ve heard of DeviantArt. It’s a big art website that people like everywhere except Japan. Even though DeviantArt has some great artists (no denying that!), DeviantArt also feels so amateur. Pixiv is also [...]
