Elegant Beast (Blu-ray)

Elegant Beast (Blu-ray)In their humble two room apartment, the Maeda family seem ever so self effacing but their modest faade hides another truth. Daughter Tomoko is the mistress of a bestselling author with well lined pockets. Son Minoru embezzles funds with his lover Yukie (Ayako Wakao, Red Angel), who has her own hidden agenda. And father Tokizo (Yunosuke Ito, Ikiru, Lone Wolf and Cub) is a former military man who swears he will never return to the poverty he knew during

and Okinawan Brown Sugar Shortbread

Being brilliant has never been this dangerous

there has been one quality that great leaders

In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink

and three others

is asked to cross an ancient sulphur pool carrying a lighted candle as an act of faith

enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger

the songs play off each other

The real threat to liberal democracy isn't autocrats - it's the lack of effective action by progressives

Mick Wall’s seminal biography of the band

The Long Run

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant