Pure TokyoScope Podcast 164: Japan's New Energy Crisis? Goodbye to Galaxy Express Anime Superstars!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!
FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) look back, and maybe even forward, at Japan’s oil shock energy crisis of the 1970s. Also, they say goodbye to the voice actor and music composer who helped make Galaxy Express 999 so memorable.
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SHOW NOTES
G.I. Samurai Limited Edition Blu-ray from Arrow Video (featuring video extras with Matt)
G.I. Samurai Blu-ray Collector's Edition from Umbrella Entertainment (featuring movie audio commentary by Patrick)
White Day in Japan
Oil Shock 3.0: As Middle East tensions drive up gas prices, will Japan’s utility bills follow?
Supermarket riots during the 1970s Oil Shock in Japan
Kyodain Jumbo Machinder (Oil Shock era at left) next to Great Mazinger Jumbo Machinder (pre-Oil Shock at right)
The Kentucky Fried Movie - Recycling Crude Oil From Teenagers’ Faces (1977)
Sign at NAT Records in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
Galaxy Express 999 Voice Actress and Music Composer Pass Away
Masako Ikeda (1939-2026)
Maetel being “a little cougar-like” in the 999 movie
Mother of Ultra (voiced by Masako Ikeda)
Mr. Yunioshi in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)
Nozomi Aoki (1931-2026)
Symphonic Poem Galaxy Express 999 LP by Nozomi Aoki
Galaxy Express - Radio Spots 1980 - New World Pictures
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