The widely respected director, Takeshi Kitano has comeback to the Yakuza film genre at Cannes with Outrageous. This movie is supposed to be horribly violent. Even though he was able to get into the festival with the reputation of it being good, it was slammed by French newspapers. Le Monde called it “his worst ever film,” and said the “depiction of excessive violence was grotesque,” while Figaro couldn’t understand why it had even been entered in the competition in the first place. More »

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From Flauntme: In celebration of the soy milk festival in Hakone, Japan, a hot spring inn in Hakone Kowakien provided their guests with soy milk baths. More »

Yes, the Japanese festival that everyone gets up early for, the Japanese Penis Festival. Actually fertility festival. But no matter how you slice it, it’s a festival filled with massive wooden carvings of penises for you to get your photo taken next to. If you didn’t think it actually existed, here is the photographic proof. More »

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The annual Winter Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan is in full swing once again. The streets are lined with frozen tourist looking at even more frozen ice and snow sculptures. Plus there is always the fun of going to a bar where all the glasses are made of ice… More »

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