There's about four actual, for real, no-irony grindhouses still showing triple bills on a daily basis in Asakusa to an audience largely made up of drunks, derelicts, and drifters.
When I was taking the pics, one old timer came up to us and sighed, "Ahhh, they're all dead." We had to reassure him that aside from Wakayama and Tora-san, everyone was more or less alive...sort of like him.
i will - and i hope sooner rather than later...
Posted by: timt. | December 16, 2008 at 01:00 PM
whoa, what's up with them hairy pits? that's justed uncalled for.
Posted by: spm | December 18, 2008 at 06:44 AM
When the Man puts a ban on hair-pie proper, you have to take what you can get.
Posted by: Patrick Macias | December 18, 2008 at 08:41 AM
well get me some blindfolds. i just vomitted in my mouth. :)
Posted by: spm | December 23, 2008 at 11:33 AM
It wouldn't be the first time someone spazz'd chow in a movie theater in Asakusa!
Posted by: Patrick Macias | December 23, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Great photos, Seagal + Tora-san + Bunta Sugawara + Shintaro Katsu, that's cool!
People are still interested by these 'oldies'? Or it was just a special event?
Anyway, that's quite surprising!
Posted by: Michael | January 02, 2009 at 06:08 AM
There's about four actual, for real, no-irony grindhouses still showing triple bills on a daily basis in Asakusa to an audience largely made up of drunks, derelicts, and drifters.
When I was taking the pics, one old timer came up to us and sighed, "Ahhh, they're all dead." We had to reassure him that aside from Wakayama and Tora-san, everyone was more or less alive...sort of like him.
Posted by: Patrick Macias | January 02, 2009 at 08:15 AM