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A Tokyo Romance

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by Ian Buruma


  international performances of, 123–24

  “kinpun show,” 126

  as nostalgie de la boue, 123

  publicity for, 133–34

  Sankai Juku performances of, 123–24

  tortured movements in, 115, 118

  and war, 125

  Caballé, Montserrat, 201

  Caesar, J. A., 13, 18

  Cannes Film Festival, 44

  Cardin, Pierre, 10, 11

  carnival tent side-show characters, 62–66

  author’s visit with, 66–67

  chicken girl, 59, 61, 62, 66

  girl with elongated neck, 59, 60

  Human Pump, 59–61, 60, 66–67, 90

  snake woman, 59, 61, 66

  tokudashi, 64–65

  wolf man, 59, 61, 66

  Chaplin, Charlie, 26, 27

  Chaudhuri, Nirad C., 227

  Chieko (girlfriend), 135, 136–37

  China:

  characters on signage, 17–18

  Cultural Revolution in, 9

  China Nights (Shina no Yoru) (film), 99–102, 103, 105

  Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis), 183, 186

  Chrysanthemum, Madame, 88–89

  Clapton, Eric, 94

  Courtauld Institute, London, 8

  Dafoe, Willem, 11, 120

  Dairakudakan, 130–37, 143, 201

  and Arashi (“Tempest”), 130–31

  Butoh troupe of, 120, 121–22, 124–26, 133–34, 137

  formation of, 121

  publicity for, 133–34

  Dance Love Machine, 126, 128

  Davis, Miles, 187

  Dayan, Moshe, 149

  Delon, Alain, 14, 66

  Diana, Princess, 105

  Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (film), 141, 150

  Disneyland California, 7, 9

  Disneyland Japan, 22

  Dude City, Los Angeles, 6

  Dunaway, Faye, 213

  Eastern Exchange (Haylock), 31

  Empire of Passion (film), 46

  Fellini, Federico, 12, 71

  films:

  cinephiles, 77–78

  documentary, 91, 177–80

  emotional realism in, 79

  international interest in, 170

  roman porno (porno romance), 42–45, 46, 52, 72, 85, 104

  samurai epics, 72

  supotsu mono (sports films), 26

  Tokyo as 1970s cinema city, 71–72

  wartime propaganda, 76, 99, 102

  whiskey commercials, 82–83, 98, 99

  women’s melancholy roles in, 76, 101

  yakuza movies, 72–73, 85, 136

  see also specific films, actors, directors

  Firbank, Ronald, 29

  First Love (Hatsukoi) (film), 129–30

  “Flowers of Edo,” 24

  Fonda, Jane, 210

  Forbidden Colors (Mishima), 116

  Forster, E. M., 219–20, 221

  Fuji Tatsuya, 44, 46

  Furansu Eigasha, 130

  Fushimizu Osamu, 99

  Fuwa Mansaku, 189, 190, 193

  gaijin (outsider), 27–28, 57, 95–99, 106, 187, 220–21, 222–27

  author as, see Buruma, Ian

  bodies of, 118

  gaijin’s privilege, 36, 46, 48, 130

  “gaijin talent,” 95

  “Seidensticker syndrome,” 34

  geisha houses, Kyoto, 97–98

  Genet, Jean, 116, 141

  Glinn, Burt, 171

  Godard, Jean-Luc, 130

  Golden Gai, Tokyo, 140–41, 150–51

  Goldfinger (film), 126

  Gorky, Arshile, 27

  Graham (English student), 28, 29, 56–57

  Grant, Duncan, 32

  Green Center, Tokyo, 57

  Greg (photographer), 97–98

  Hanazono Shrine, 23, 59, 140

  Harbutt, Charles, 171

  Hartevelt, Renée, 214

  Hasegawa Kazuo, 99–100

  Haylock, John, 31

  Hendrix, Jimi, 210

  Hijikata Tatsumi, 23, 114–18, 120–24, 132, 155, 168, 180

  Hirohito, Emperor, 53, 135

  Hiroko (model), 10, 11, 180

  hiropon (methamphetamine), 125

  Hitler, Adolf, 130, 131, 134

  Hokusai Katsushika, 157

  Horibun I (tattoo artist), 157, 160–61

  Horibun II (tattoo artist), 157–62, 158, 193

  Hosoe Eikoh, 113

  House of Bamboo (film), 103

  Human Pump, 59–61, 60, 66–67, 90

  Hussein, Saddam, 105

  Ichijo Sayuri, 43

  Ikeda, “Carlotta,” 131, 133

  Ikeda Masuo, 113

  In Praise of Shadows (Tanizaki), 40

  In the Realm of the Senses (film), 43–46, 118

  Isherwood, Christopher, 1, 22, 30

  Isozaki Arata, 114

  Izumo no Okuni, 200, 201

  Jade, Claude, 10

  Japan:

  akogare (dreaming) in, 180

  alcohol use in, 176

  author as outsider in, see Buruma, Ian

  communal bathing in, 41, 57

  drugs in, 125

  Edo period storytelling, 96

  elevator girls in, 91, 178–80

  ero, guro, nansensu in, 51, 130

  exotic fantasies about, 11, 25, 55, 88, 89–90, 92, 99, 102, 130, 141, 156

  fashions in, 67

  films in, see films

  foreign romantics in, 79

  geisha houses in, 97–98

  Genroku Period (seventeenth century), 53

  independent craftsmen in, 40, 41

  Japanese tourists, 207–18, 219, 221

  kamikaze spirit of, 73

  language ability in, 169–70, 208

  “manias” in, 94–95

  Meiji Period (late nineteenth and early twentieth century), 55

  night soil collectors in, 41

  nostalgie de la boue (dorokusai) in, 54, 55, 61, 123, 155

  old vs. new in, 41–42

  outsiders (gaijin) in, see gaijin

  oyakata (chief artisan) in, 160–62, 172, 174

  pan pan girls in, 217

  Red Army of, 43, 104

  riverbanks in, 196, 200

  senpai-kohai relationships in, 176

  sensei in, 172

  Showa Genroku (1970s), 53

  sixteenth century in, 88

  social freedoms of women in, 88

  student activists in (1960s), 73, 180

  tattoos in, 156–63, 158, 160

  tea ceremony of, 122

  traditional toilets in, 40–41

  traditions of, 180, 225

  urban life in, 39–42

  U.S. occupation of, 27, 70, 72, 125, 152, 187, 220

  wartime propaganda films, 76, 99, 102, 166

  “wet” vs. “dry” relations, 147, 150, 156, 162, 171

  woodblock artists of, 53, 157

  see also Tokyo

  Japanese Cinema (Galbraith), 2

  Japan Times, 151, 165, 177

  Jim (American student), 107–11

  Jokyo Gekijo (Situation Theater), 50

  Juliá, Raúl, 211

  Junko (dancer), 107, 110

  Kabuki theater, 27, 91, 116, 123, 180, 185, 188, 194, 196, 200–201

  Kaga Mariko, 171

  Kagemusha (film), 80, 81, 82

  Kappa (drama), 216

  Kara Juro, 51, 54, 59, 65, 120–21, 141, 142–56, 202

  birth of, 124, 182

  early years of, 154–55,
185, 186, 187, 217

  “gaijin complex” of, 152, 153, 169

  Kappa, 216

  Letters from Sagawa, 215

  and Maro, 121, 143

  and Middle East, 148, 149–50, 156

  as oyabun (father figure), 150, 188

  and party, 202–5

  on “privilege of the flesh,” 168, 180

  and Ri, 126, 143–46, 195, 203, 204, 211–12, 294

  and “riverside beggars,” 196, 200, 202

  Shojo Kamen (Mask of a Virgin), 165–69, 171, 180

  and Situation Theater, 50, 84, 121, 140, 147–48, 163, 194, 201, 208, 209, 219

  Unicorn Monogatari, 180–83, 181, 182, 185–200, 202, 209

  in U.S., 207–18, 219, 221, 225

  and Western culture, 152, 153

  wife and son of, 143

  worldview of, 186

  Kasugano Yachiyo, 165–68, 167

  Katsu Shintaro, 221

  Kawabata Yasunari, 24–25

  Kawakita Kashiko, 74–75, 81, 103

  Kawakita Kazuko, 130

  Kawakita Nagamasa, 74–75, 103, 130

  Kawatani Takuzo, 203

  Kaze no Matasaburo (drama), 50–51, 148, 154, 163

  Keiko (student), 94

  Ken-san (Takakura Ken), 72–73

  Kiers, Roelof, 178

  Kim Il-sung, 104, 105

  Kinoshita Keisuke, 76

  Kin-san (student), 107–11, 129

  Kinsey, Alfred, 34

  KKK (Ku Klux Klan), 69

  Klein, William, 55

  Kobayashi Kaoru, 143–44, 146, 182, 187, 189, 193, 197, 199–200, 202

  Koestler, Arthur, 89, 90–91

  Kubrick, Stanley, 81–82

  Kujo Eiko, 120, 172

  Kumashiro Tatsumi, 43

  Kunisada Chuji, 193

  Kurosawa Akira, 34, 42, 75, 77–78, 79–83, 80, 98, 170–71

  Kurotokage (Black Lizard) (film), 198

  Kyoko (film character), 10–11, 33

  La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, 209, 210–11

  Late Spring (film), 77

  Léaud, Jean-Pierre, 10

  Lee, Peggy, 92–93

  Letters from Sagawa (Kara), 215

  Lewis, C. S., 183, 186

  Liberace, 166

  Life of Oharu, The (film), 75

  Li Xianglan (Ri Koran), 99–106, 129

  Lorre, Peter, 5

  Los Angeles:

  author’s first impressions of, 5–7, 20

  Tokyo contrasted with, 22–24

  Loti, Pierre, 88, 95

  Love of Life (film), 26

  Lower Depths, The (Gorky), 27

  Ludlam, Charles, 211, 212

  Madame Butterfly, 89

  Madame Chrysanthemum, 88–89

  Mailer, Norman, 213

  Manchukuo Film Association, 102

  Mao Zedong, 30, 105

  Marker, Chris, 130, 151

  Maro Akaji, 119, 120–22, 123–26, 136, 140, 144

  and Butoh, 120, 121–22, 124–26, 134, 137

  and Dairakudakan, 120, 121–22, 124, 130–31, 201

  and Hijikata, 114, 116, 121

  and Kara, 121, 143

  and “kinpun show,” 126

  and war, 124

  Marx, Karl, 9–10

  Mask of a Virgin (Shojo Kamen) (drama), 165, 168–69, 171, 180

  Matsuda Eiko, 44

  Maugham, Somerset, 29–30

  Medea (drama), 209

  Meigaza movie house, Tokyo, 139

  Merrill, James, 49

  Messiah (Handel), 116

  Mickery Theater, Amsterdam, 11–12, 48, 51, 119, 143, 165

  Midnight Cowboy (film), 152

  Midnight Cowboy, role in Unicorn Monogatari, 183, 186–87, 189, 193, 199–200

  Mifune Toshiro, 83

  Miho (dancer), 129

  Minami Senju theater, Tokyo, 56, 58

  Mishima Yukio, 47, 54, 61, 113, 221

  acquaintances of, 32

  birth of, 124

  Black Lizard, 198

  Forbidden Colors, 116

  on obscurity, 213

  suicide of, 23, 124

  Mitikin, 185–86

  Miwa Akihiro, 198–99

  Mizoguchi Kenji, 75, 76, 77–78, 79, 94

  Moriyama Daido, 53, 55

  Mount Fuji, 131–32, 227–28

  Murobushi Ko, 131

  Nagai Kafu, 55–56, 140, 202

  Nagoya, Japan, 132–34

  Nakamura Ganjiro, 201

  Nanjing, Rape of, 101

  Narita International Airport, 207, 209

  Naruse Mikio, 75, 79

  Nasu (friend of Tsuda), 52

  Nathan, John, 221, 222

  National Film Center, 74–77, 84, 99, 103

  Natsume Soseki, 213–14

  New York, Kara and Ri in, 207–16, 225

  Nezu Jinpachi, 144, 146, 148, 188, 189, 194–96, 200, 202, 208

  Nihon University College of Art, Tokyo (Nichidai), 2, 25–30, 42, 52, 73, 171

  Nikkatsu movie studio, 42

  Nogami Teruyo (Non-chan, Nogami-san), 82, 98

  Noh theater, 123

  Nosaka Akiyuki, 151, 152–53

  Oe Kenzaburo, 213

  O-Kinu (innkeeper), 108, 110

  Ono Kazuo, 112, 114, 116

  Oshima Nagisa, 23, 49, 54, 71, 130, 141, 150, 152, 215

  Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, 141, 150

  Empire of Passion, 46

  In the Realm of the Senses, 43–46, 118

  Otsuru Gitan, 143

  Ozu Yasujiro, 34, 42, 49, 75, 77, 77–79

  Papp, Joe, 211

  Paris syndrome, 214

  Passage to India, A (Forster), 219–20, 221, 223

  Piaf, Edith, 218

  Postlethwaite, Cecil, 29–30

  Prokosch, Frederic, 70

  Proper, Pure, Beautiful (dance revue), 166

  Public Theater, New York, 211

  Raeburn, Ashley, 18–19

  Raeburn, Nest, 19

  Rich (American student), 28

  Richie, Donald, 1–3, 14, 17, 22, 24–25, 26, 35, 44n, 69–72, 81, 103, 130

  author’s first meeting with, 31–32, 33, 34–37, 225

  as author’s sensei, 45–46, 47–48, 51, 67, 73, 74, 85–86, 116

  conversations about sex, 87–88

  death of, 163

  early years of, 36, 69, 70

  interest in film, 1–2, 71–72, 76, 79, 84, 85, 170–71, 177

  on Japanese “innocence,” 45–47, 61, 86, 90

  and Japanese tattoos, 156, 157

  and Mishima, 116

  as outsider, 36, 47, 48, 89, 97, 171, 227

  as pioneer, 48

  short films of, 48–49, 116, 118

  “The package is the substance,” 67

  as writer for Stars and Stripes, 24, 70

  writings on Japanese culture, 71

  Ri Koran (Li Xianglan), 99–106, 129

  Ri Reisen, 143–46, 150, 169, 189, 192, 194, 202, 221

  and Kara, 126, 143, 195, 203, 204, 211–12, 294

  U.S. visit of, 210–13

  Rob (friend), 93–94, 98, 107–11

  Roderick, John, 30–31, 45, 47, 225, 227

  Rokkuza Theater, Tokyo, 71

  Ryan, Robert, 103

  Ryu Chishu, 77

  Sacrifice (film), 116, 118

  Sade, Marquis de, 117

  Sagawa Issei, 214–15

  San Francisco, Kara and Ri in, 216–18

  Sankai Juku, 123–24

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 37, 150
r />   Schlesinger, John, 4, 30, 33, 77, 81, 152

  Schoenberg, Arnold, 34

  Seibu Kodo, Kyoto, 135

  Seidensticker, Edward, 18, 34, 49, 84, 223–24

  “Seidensticker syndrome,” 34

  Sellars, Peter, 120

  “Sentimental Ushihara,” 26–27, 29, 73

  Serban, Andrei, 209, 211, 212, 213

  Seven Samurai (film), 83

  Shankar, Ravi, 5

  Shearer, Norma, 69

  Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, 113

  Shi Jin (“Nine Dragon” Shishin), 157, 158, 160

  Shimizu-san, 74

  Shina no Yoru (China Nights) (film), 99–102, 103, 105

  Shinobazu no Ike (lotus pond), 84, 163

  Shinoyama Kishin, 23, 53

  Shinsekai district, 191

  Shinto, 131–32, 180

  Shiraishi Kazuko, 28, 114

  Showa Genroku, 53

  Sinatra, Frank, 152

  Situation Theater, 50, 84, 121, 140, 144, 147–48, 163, 194, 201, 208, 209, 219

  Son of Sam/Summer of Sam, 212

  Souls on the Road (film), 26–27

  South Manchurian Railway Company, 102

  Stack, Robert, 103

  Stars and Stripes, 24, 70

  Stewart, Ellen, 209, 210–11

  Stimson, Henry L., 109

  Streep, Meryl, 209, 211, 212

  Streetcar Named Desire, A (drama), 195

  Sumie (author’s girlfriend/wife), 18, 32–33, 39, 40, 45, 89, 90, 92, 93, 226–27

  Supremes, 7

  Suzuki Tadashi, 48, 52, 165

  Takakura Ken, 72–73

  Takarazuka, all-female revue company, 164, 165–67, 168, 180

  Takemitsu Toru, 48, 152, 153

  Takeshi (photographic subject), 162

  Tale of the Unicorn (Unicorn Monogatari), 180–83, 181, 182, 185–200, 209

  Tamasaburo (Kabuki star), 53

  “low city Tamasaburo,” 56, 57

  Tanaka Kinuyo, 75, 77, 172–77

  Tangerine Dream (German rock group), 122

  Tani family, 40–42, 45

  Tanikawa Shuntaro, 113

  Tanizaki Junichiro, 40

  Tatsuki Yoshihiro, 171–77

  tattoos, 156–68, 158, 160

  tea ceremony, rigid style of, 122

  ten Cate, Ritsaert, 119–22, 143, 147

  Tenjo Sajiki, 11–14, 16, 17, 18, 25, 44, 119, 120, 141–42, 147

  Terayama Shuji, 23–24, 151, 152, 168

  birth of, 124, 155

  death of, 122

  “dry” character of, 147

  early years of, 69–70, 154

  essays of, 49–50

  poems and plays of, 17, 33, 70, 122–23

  spectacles of, 25, 50–51, 54, 65, 96, 147

  and Tenjo Sajiki, 11–14, 17, 25, 44, 119, 120, 141–42

  and war, 124

  Tessier, Max, 78, 82–83, 89, 94, 98

  Theater of Life (film), 136

  Theatre X, 11

  Throne of Blood (film), 7, 83

 

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