Pure TokyoScope Podcast 172: Goodbye, Akihiro Miwa, a Japanese Showbiz Legend!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!
PREVIEW 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) race like wild stallions through a spate of recent headlines, including the death of legendary Japanese showbiz personality Akihiro Miwa. Also: big behind-the-scenes drama involving Ultraman, Doraemon, and Japan’s unforgiving ice cream cartel!
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SHOW NOTES
Wicked Priest Collection Limited Edition Blu-ray (featuring 2 new video extras from Pat and Matt!)
Akihiro Miwa, defiant icon of stage and song, dies at 91
Watch Black Lizard (1968) now on Archive.org
Gary Coleman (and Dionne Warwick) for the Psychic Friends Network
Japan’s FTC raids six ice cream makers over allegedly creating price cartel
Akagi Apology Video for Raising Prices
Tsuburaya Productions, Creators of Ultraman, Reportedly Hit by Mass Employee Departures Ahead of 60th Anniversary
For Every Ultraman . . . There’s an Ultra Woman (Hiroko Sakurai interview by Matt Alt)
THE ORIGIN OF ULTRAMAN - Official Trailer -
Shogakukan and Doraemon break up after nearly 50 years
The Adventures of Albert and Sydney opening sequence
CAKE and TV Asahi Team for Doraemon
CAKE Inks International ‘Voltron’ Distribution Partnership with WEP
Space Mice from Voltron including “Cheezer”
New Show Sponsor: Voltron Defender of the Universe Australia Version
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