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Japanese Porn Grows Old

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Ben Barna

Japanese Porn Grows Old One of the more recent trends in American cinema was adapting Japanese horror movies. The Ring, The Grudge, and The Eye, all came from the Land of the Rising Sun. Here’s hoping that Japan’s latest cinematic trend catches on soon. Old People Porn.

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Less Fusion, More Tradition.

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Rohin Guha

Less Fusion, More Tradition. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (or LACMA, if you're lazy) is featuring a show of exclusively traditional Japanese artwork that closes on September 14, 2008. Forgoing large-breasted heroines and other animé tropes that seem to be fixtures in most Japanese art lately, the show is an exciting throwback to nature and a less discordant, complicated time, before the advent of Tokyo Disneyland, when artists painted with watercolors and focused on subjects like tigers and herons.