Passions:

Japanese cinema, culture, and pop culture; avant-garde art; anime; dark cinema; video games; chocolate; music that makes the whole world recoil; sushi!

Movies:

Reservoir Dogs, The Bad Lieutenant, Pulp Fiction, Perfect Blue, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Akira, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Ju-On: The Grudge (both versions), Battle Royale (aka Batoru rowaiaru JP), Blade Runner, Dark City, Requiem For A Dream, Star Wars series, Postman Blues, The Fifth Element, There's Something About Mary,The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Leon: The Professional, The Crow, Shaun of the Dead, Taxi Driver, Edward Scissorhands, Evil Dead, Bad Taste, Dead Alive, Suicide Kings, Dogma, Office Space, Barberella, X-Men, X2: X-Men United, Hellboy, Underworld , Amelie, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Rebel Without A Cause, Ringu (aka The Ring), Scorpion: Female Prisoner 701, Dangerous Liasons, High Tension , Ravenous, A Life Less Ordinary, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Tomie, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Blood: The Last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D, Another Heaven (JP), 8MM, Ugetsu monogatari, Fight Club, Neon Genesis Evangelion [Box set], V For Vendetta, Titus, Donnie Darko

The Cure, Assemblage 23, VNV Nation, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Clan of Xymox, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Jack Off Jill, The Smiths, Seize, Wumpscut, Dead Can Dance, Delerium, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Liz Frazier, Massive Attack, The Baby Namboos, Nine Inch Nails, Duran Duran, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Bjork, Depeche Mode, Ladytron, The Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, A Perfect Circle, Pearl Jam, HMB, Epsilon Minus, Ice Cube, NWA, Anja Garbarek, The Mad Capsule Markets, Erasure, The Vanishing, Hanin Elias, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Pixies, Mika Nakashima, Hikaru Utada, Tsukiko Amano, Anna Tsuchiya