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
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
