A Tokyo Romance
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Terayama), 25
Toei studios, 72
Toji Deluxe studio, Kyoto, 61–65, 99
Tokita Fujio, 191, 192
Tokyo:
1960s, 21–22, 25, 28, 48, 50, 53–54, 72, 73, 142, 145, 149
1970s, 22–25, 39–42, 53, 54, 67, 71–72, 73, 141, 142, 149
author’s first impressions of, 17–25
carnival side-show characters, 59–61, 62–66
Edo Period, 96, 154
history in, 24
Los Angeles contrasted with, 22–24
neighborhoods in, 139–41, 154
nostalgia evoked by, 24
shitamachi (low city), 84, 85–86, 139–40, 155, 156, 159, 182
specialized coffee shops in, 94–95
visual density of, 18, 20
Tokyo Olympics (1964), 61
Tomatsu Shomei, 53
Tori-no-Ichi (Day of the Rooster), 57, 59
Trefusis, Violet, 32
Truffaut, François, 10, 11
Tsuda (dropout student), 51–52, 57, 62–66, 75, 107–11, 129, 177
Tsuruta Koji, 72
Tsuruya Namboku, 52
Ugetsu (film), 75
Unicorn Monogatari, Tale of the Unicorn Taito-ku Version (drama), 180–83, 181, 182, 185–200, 202, 209
Ushihara Kiyohiko (Sentimental Ushihara), 26–27, 29, 73
Utamaro Kitagawa, 157
Uzzle, Burk, 171
Vassilis (Greek film student), 75, 94
Vietnam War, 28
Visconti, Luchino, 130
VPRO, 177–78
Wakamatsu Koji, 149
Warhol, Andy, 142, 210
Waseda Shogekijo group, 48, 165
Water Margin, The (fourteenth-century Chinese novel), 157, 159
Weatherby, Meredith “Tex,” 47, 54
Weissmuller, Johnny, 69
Wenders, Wim, 130
Wilde, Oscar, 29
Williams, Tennessee, 153–54
Wilson, Robert, 12, 120
Woolf, Virginia, 32
Wooster Group, 11
World War II:
effects of, 124
wartime propaganda films, 76, 99, 102
yakuza gangs, 147, 162, 191
yakuza movies, 72–73, 85
Yamada, “Bishop,” 123
Yamada Eimi, 95
Yamada Hiroko, 179–80
Yamaguchi, “Herbie,” 120
Yamaguchi, Shirley, 103, 129
Yamaguchi Yoshiko (Li Xianglan), 102–6
Yamanaka, John, 177
Yamashita Paradise, 126
Yamashita Yosuke, 114
Yato Tamotsu, 54
Yokoo Tadanori, 23
Yonemoto, Bruce, 7–8
Yonemoto, Norman, 5–6, 7–8, 22
Yoshihiro (Yo-chan), 31
Yotsuya Simon, 146
Yushima Tenjin shrine, 84–85
Zappa, Frank, 135
* Exhumations, London: Methuen, 1966.
* The real Abe Sada was finally arrested in Tokyo. After spending some years in prison, she opened a bar in Asakusa, where, according to Donald Richie, who was often there, she would make a grand entrance at the same time every night, eagerly anticipated by the male patrons, who would all cup their genitals in unison. Abe spent the last years of her life in a nunnery.
* Naked Festival: A Photo-Essay, Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1968.
* Arturo Silva, ed., The Donald Richie Reader, Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2001.
* Jan van Rij, Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, & the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San, Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2001.
* The Lotus and the Robot, London: Hutchinson, 1960.
* A later translation, edited by Robert T. Rolf and John K. Gillespie, was published in Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.
* Quoted in John Nathan’s memoir, Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere, New York: Free Press, 2008.
* Quoted in Masao Miyoshi, Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
* Sagawa Issei, Kiri no Naka (In the Fog), Tokyo: Hanashi no Tokushu, 1983.
* The translation is by Mark Morris, from whose article “The Question of the Other: Kara Juro and Letters from Sagawa,” in The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 5, no. 12 (December 2007), I have borrowed much of this information.
* Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere, New York: Free Press, 2008.
* Reprinted in This Country, Japan, Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979.
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