Pillow Talk Japan

Book GET: Haikasoru printing ICO: Castle in the Mist

I a coup for players of videogames, readers of books, and appreciators of good things everywhere, Viz’s imprint Haikasoru have released an excerpt from Miyuki Miyabe’s ICO: Castle in the Mist, the novel follow-up to milestone PS2 game ICO. If you don’t know what ICO is, then you should be sad that you haven’t played [...]

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Norwegian Wood to Use Beatles Original

In a marketing coup, producers of the movie adaptation of Murakami Haruki’s “Noruwei no Mori” have obtained permission to use the Beatles song from which it takes its name as its closing theme. It is just the second Japanese production to have been granted the honor (the other was Shinoda Masahiro’s “Akuryoto” in 1981), and [...]

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KyonKyon, Nagase Reunited for Mainichi Kaasan

Saibara Rieko’s popular manga strip “Mainichi Kaasan” is to be adapted for the big screen, it was announced yesterday. Whoever did the casting pulled off a PR coup because the leading roles of a married couple will be played by actress Koizumi Kyoko (44, photo left) and actor Nagase Masatoshi (43), who divorced in 2004. [...]

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The Zen nothingness of Zamami

Japan on ¥1,000 a day? It’s certainly possible by cycling and camping on this Okinawan isle Thinking that Japan is too expensive for them, many budget travelers eschew this archipelago for Southeast Asia. But with a mountain bike and a tent, it’s quite possible to travel in Okinawa on ¥1,000 a day – and enjoy [...]

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