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Nostalgia is a deeply human experience. But what happens when we romanticise the past to the point of reinventing it? In the film A Pale View of Hills, Kei Ishikawa invites the audience into the quiet world of Etsuko, a Japanese woman in England, whose bandages begin to unwrap as her youngest daughter, Niki, a young writer, itches to investigate her mother’s uncovered past.

Yoshitomo Nara, One Foot in the Groove , 2012. Courtesy Private collection. © Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Yoshitomo Nara Foundation. Until...

"Deriving creative influence from BLACKPINK" (pictured above, via Wikimedia Commons) Emerging straight from Japan’s underground club...

Japanese woodblock prints have been the water in which artistic imagination has swum, providing sustenance for creativity throughout the...

★★★★ Yumura Teruhiko, GONZO'S Underground Mix Vol.7. Image courtesy of Japan House. Located in Kensington High Street, Japan House London...