Places & Travel
12/14, Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo
Japan’s annual 'Kotoshi-no-kanji' (or Character of the Year) was unveiled Monday during a traditional ceremony at the Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto. And following news that the American composer Angelo Badalamenti had passed away this week, an exhibition of “Film History in Horror Film Posters” opened at the National Film Archive of Japan in Kyobashi, while a program of films by the late filmmaker and poet Shiroyasu Suzuki are being screened with English subtitles this coming Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th at Shibuya's Image Forum Theatre.