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...pistols for samurai swords and tackle the legacy of a cinema legend? Why abandon the complexity of his recent films to remake an action franchise that he admits he "did not particularly" like? The answer is simple: because he was ordered to do so by a 76-year-old strip-club owner and former nude dancer named Chieko Saito, known to her family, friends and everyone else around her as Mama...
...Located in Tokyo's semiseedy entertainment district of Asakusa, the same streets that birthed Kitano's career, the Rokku-za strip theater has been XXX-rated since 1945, when its owners discovered what cable TV has since learned: even the dullest entertainment can be made palatable with toplessness. In the postwar years, the Rokku-za was a popular hangout for rebel intellectuals; now the club entertains sottish salarymen with nice Japanese girls and sultry Russians gyrating to pop ballads. This is, literally, Mama's house...
...Saito was in her mid-30s, she decided to get into the nude-dancing business, recalling, "I liked dancing, and as for the nude part, I didn't care." At first, she danced in a friend's theater after the movies played. Then, in 1962, she bought her own strip club; less than a decade later, she owned more than 20 theaters across Japan. Along the way, Saito's money and her clubs' popularity helped her build a slew of connections with Tokyo's entertainment ?lite...
Totalitarianism’s biggest vulnerability is that it can never truly gain popular support. Recently, more than 500,000 in Hong Kong bravely took to the streets to protest Article 23, an ugly new law banning treason, sedition and subversion that will be used to strip away the civil liberties that people in Hong Kong, unlike those in mainland China, might otherwise enjoy. Their protests serve as an example for mainland Chinese, who must not expect totalitarianism to disappear on its own and should challenge it actively as my friends and I have...
Certainly the depredations of a bunch of rubber-soled, chalk-bag-toting rock rats are minor compared with forest clear-cutting or strip mining. But because climbers are drawn to some of the nation's most spectacular landscapes--the Tetons in Wyoming, the Sawtooths in Idaho, Joshua Tree National Park in California--their footprints are closely scrutinized, and a nationwide debate is under way between climbers and federal land-management agencies on what and where people should be permitted to climb...