Pure TokyoScope PODCAST 92: RIP Roger Corman! Sayonara Shakey's! Pokémon Yakuza!
Pure TokyoScope PODCAST 92: RIP Roger Corman! Sayonara Shakey's! Pokémon Yakuza!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In this episode of 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) wrap their heads around some recent pop culture (and pizza) headlines from Japan, including the death of a B-movie king, the discovery of a lost anime, and gangsters who covet Pokémon cards!
SHOW NOTES!
Roger Corman, The B-Movie Legend Who Launched A-List Careers, Dies At 98
Samurai and Son - The Oral History of SHOGUN ASSASSIN! (Written by Patrick)
Trailer for WARRIORS OF THE WIND (1985)
Trailer for DIRTY DUCK (1974)
Shakey’s Pizza in Shinjuku, Tokyo Closes Down
Tokyo’s famous LOST IN TRANSLATION hotel is closed
Century-old anime discovered in Japan
New AURA BATTLER DUNBINE SIDE L anime
Japan's Fearsome Yakuza Reduced to Stealing Pokémon Cards
AMERICAN YAKUZA (1993)
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for over a year now.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been:
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