A Story From Japan – Kurosawa Edition

Piss Alley, Tokyo. 2017

In a second floor bar, big enough to fit 4 people at a push, a man talks to me. A man in his 40s. No defining features that I recall. We talk. As the night goes on he blushes. Slowly over time blood fills his face and neck. He tells me that people have a phrase for this:

“The Boiled Octopus”

Kurosawa Edition takes inspiration from the cinematic styling of classic Akira Kurosawa samurai moves such as Seven Samurai and Sanjuro.