Lollipop Magazine

Boris – Mabura No Ura – Interview

January 1, 2006

An interview with bassist/guitarist Takeshi

Culture Shock: You May Get Wet – Column

June 13, 2005

It’s easy to slip into arrogant mockery when surrounded by the unfamiliar, particularly when as wide-eyed and bushy-tailed as Japanese Culture.

Polezilla – Review

June 13, 2005

Other cultures are fun to make fun of, especially if you do it behind their backs. They paint buildings purple. They have random sculptures with no explanation.

Man Faye Gallery – Review

June 13, 2005

Faye is a character in cosplay, a vaguely adult undertaking involving hot women dressing up for roleplay. Alas, this activity is no longer limited to women.

Create Bands – Review

June 13, 2005

You can go to their site and literally manufacture a band, which will then help you manufacture a song. So far as I can tell, you can’t save your creation.

Bird People of China – Review

June 13, 2005

Most directors can’t manage ten good films in their lifespan. Takashi Miike did that last year. The shock is that it’s great in a way you didn’t expect.

Culture Shock: Twinkie The Kid – Column

June 13, 2005

It’s easy to slip into arrogant mockery when surrounded by the unfamiliar, particularly when as wide-eyed and bushy-tailed as Japanese Culture.

Young Thugs: Nostalgia – Review

March 7, 2005

One of Takashi Miike’s best works. Set in the 1960s, it tells the story of Riichi, a poor kid with a jerkoff for a dad and a future that seems doomed.

Young Thugs: Innocent Blood – Review

March 7, 2005

A perceptive and even-handed study of how one boy’s troubled youth makes his inevitable maturation more complicated. Riichi returns from Young Thugs: Nostalgia.

The Black Society Trilogy – Review

March 7, 2005

Individually or as a three-DVD set, Takeshi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy is as good a cross-section of Miike’s signature Yakuza films as you’re going to find.