Miles Pieri's definitions

cursed video

Urban legend from mid-90's Japan about a videotape with weird imagery contained on it. If you watch the tape you then recieve a phone call telling you you will be dead in a week. Basis for a series of novels by the writer Koji Suzuki, filmed as Ring, Rasen, Ring 2 and Birthday. Remade in both Korea and America.

Frolic in brine, Goblins be thine

by Miles Pieri January 7, 2004

sadako

Malevolent female spirit from the Izu region of Japan, said to be responsible for the 'Cursed Video'
See also: Cursed Video

Also name of the famous 'Papaer Crane' girl of Hiroshima. The name Sadako is derived from the Japanese word for virginal or chastity.

Everyone will suffer

by Miles Pieri January 7, 2004

takashi miike

Badass and extremely prolific Japanese film maker (60 films in 9 years!!!) who has made some of the most daring and imaginative films of the last decade. Films such as the Dead Or Alive trilogy, Fudoh, Audition and Ichi The Killer are both extreme in content and intelligent enough to rise above the label of pure exploitation. His most bizarre film might be Happiness Of The Katakuri's - a musical about a family that open a guest house on an active volcano. He is working on a project with the other great contempory Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.

"kirikirikirikirikiri" - Audition

by Miles Pieri January 7, 2004

haruki murakami

Fine Japanese author of urban magic realism. Novels such as 'Dance, Dance, Dance' and 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' have made Murakami one of the most popular writers in his native country with young people. His story of young love in the 1960's 'Norwegian Wood' was a sensation when it was published in the 1980's.
Best novel (IMHO) - Sputnik Sweetheart

Selected books

Pinball
A Wild Sheep Chase
Hardboiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
Norwegian Wood
The Elephant Vanishes (Short Stories)
Dance Dance Dance
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
South Of The Border, West Of The Sun
Sputnik Sweetheart
Underground (Non fiction)

by Miles Pieri January 7, 2004