Japanese culture and life in Berlin
DRAYTON presents CLICK.CLIQUE. hosted by Mieko Suzuki(KooKoo) every Wednesday, 21h – 2h What day is it? It’s Wednesday, jour fixe for the members of Click.Clique, for all the free spirits who like being taken on a journey. Through colors and sounds, through the deep, the fuzzy, and the sometimes daring musical landscapes of Mieko Suzuki. […]
Read MoreOn November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of masterpieces and a controversy that echoes to this day. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of Japan’s greatest and most celebrated novelists. With four members of his own private army – […]
Read MoreWhile Berlin offers an appealing base for many musicians to live and play, others are drawn again and again for just a few weeks or months in the year, bringing fresh sounds to Berlin’s ever-changing music scene. “We’ve just sold the most CDs ever since we got to Berlin,” Emi Kashiwara, one half of the […]
Read MoreRachel Rits-Volloch and Cassandra Bird, Directors of MOMENTUM, warmly invite you to join us for our upcoming Live Performance and Exhibition at MOMENTUM | Berlin. __________________________ 9 December at MOMENTUM | Berlin TRAVELING SOULS At 20:30 An Interdisciplinary Performance Commissioned by MOMENTUM Featuring Emi Hariyama, Maximilian Magnus Schmidbauer, Daniel Dodd Ellis, in collaboration with Marcus […]
Read MoreEine alte japanische Sage, neu interpretiert in einer atemberaubenden Performance: Das internationale Ensemble kombiniert verschiedenste Tanzstile mit Elementen von Oper bis Jazz. Ein musikalisches Inferno der Gottheiten und Gezeiten, vom Himmel zur Erde bis zur Hölle. Besetzung Emi Hariyama – Ballett Tanz Annalisa Maggiani – Butoh Tanz Azusa Dodo – Operngesang Akira Ando – Leitung, […]
Read MoreAn angel encounters a series of men in a public toilet. [Source]
Read MoreGotô is one of the masters of Japanese Pink Cinema which features open-minded and experimental low-budget films with innovative sex scenes. BLIND LOVE tells the story of three screwball characters who stumble into a bizarre ménage à trois. The protagonists are absurdly funny but never ridiculed. This hilarious, gentle sex comedy moved its audience at […]
Read MoreA highly contagious incest virus induces several generations of a Japanese family to have sex in all possible constellations and across gender boundaries – and with that man in a bear costume who suddenly appears? Only in Japan! Come and discover Koichi Imaizumi, an upcoming new filmmaker who gives sexual lunacy in this porn grotesque […]
Read MoreSushi in Suhl is a 2012 German feature film about the history of the only Japanese restaurant in the GDR and its chef Rolf Anschütz. Directed by Carsten Fiebeler. The leading roles played Uwe Steimle and Julia Richter .
Read MoreNominated for her publication Illuminance, published by Editions Xavier Barral (France, 2011). Hailed for her ability to turn the mundane into the extraordinary and poetic, Kawauchi’s work explores themes of life, death and the everyday. Illuminance, the result of both commissions and personal projects, spans fifteen years of her practice. Using a soft palette of […]
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