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As an author of novels and nonfiction books, a writer, a speaker, and most notably, a finance guru, Peter Tasker is a man of many talents.

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2026 12

  1. THE OZU DIARIES: A PERSONAL LOOK AT THE GREAT DIRECTOR
  2. Inside Japan
  3. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS IN THE 21st CENTURY
  4. The Katsu Curry Index Looks Quite Tasty!
  5. How Japan Can Bring the Money Back Home
  6. The Geopolitics of Football: Japan 7 China 0
  7. ‘Straight to Hell’: The Extraordinary Life of Kazuko Hosoki
  8. Edo Erotica: Shunga in Shinjuku
  9. In the Steps of the Samurai
  10. Confusion, Wokery and Disney-fication: the British Museum’s flawed Samurai exhibition
  11. How Japan Got Its Mojo Back
  12. Five Fitting Scenarios for the Year of the (Fire) Horse

2025 7

  1. Soviet and Russian Espionage against Japan
  2. MODERN JAPANESE GARDENS: By Stephen Mansfield
  3. Warren Buffett’s Japanese Love Call
  4. In Memoriam: Gwen Robinson
  5. A Cinematic Ode to Japan’s Avant Garde Pioneers
  6. 100 Years of Mishima: Still Surprising, Still Disturbing
  7. Five Scintilating Scenarios for the Year of the Snake

2024 10

  1. The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Masa Son
  2. Three Devil Man in the Kobe Hotel
  3. Kaleidoscope Japan: A Nation Through the Lens of its Literature by Richard Nathan
  4. Lesley Downer’s “The Shortest History of Japan”
  5. The Coming of Shibusawa: the Politics of Japan’s New Banknotes
  6. “Nabe-Sada”: Living Legend of Japanese Jazz
  7. The Geopolitics of “Shōgun”
  8. Mr. Jimmy Climbs the Stairway to Perfection
  9. How the Bank of Japan Can Turn Disaster into Triumph
  10. Five and a Half Super Scenarios for the Year of the Dragon

2023 21

  1. Why China Needs A Dose of Abenomics
  2. The Geopolitics of Godzilla
  3. New Perspectives on Kurosawa
  4. Think Again, Al Jolson: Japan’s Silent Movie Culture Is Still Going Strong
  5. “Allez, Les Brave Blossoms”: Japan’s Special Sporting Footprint
  6. The Intelligent Ambiguity of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”
  7. Ian Buruma’s “Collaborators”
  8. Chris Miller’s “Chip War”: the Geopolitics of High-tech
  9. Learning to Love Inflation: the Japanese Experiment
  10. Hans Sautter’s “Japan”: A Photographer’s Lifework
  11. Buffett-san Validates the Abe Reforms
  12. An Excremental Film Review
  13. Flowing into the Future: Tokyo by Water
  14. Hiroshige Does Dylan
  15. The Real Musical Magic of Ryuichi Sakamoto
  16. The Kuroda era – and what comes next
  17. Funny Money: Edward Chancellor’s “The Price of Time”
  18. Big Time Gambling Boss: Yukio Mishima’s Favourite Yakuza Movie
  19. Guilty Pleasures: Tokyo Vice
  20. Five + 1 Surprising Scenarios for the Year of the Rabbit
  21. Rockin’ in Rhythm: Japan’s Battling Big Bands

2022 28

  1. Journey to Disaster: Toshiro Mifune in “Band of Assassins”
  2. A Kurosawa Christmas: When the Turkey is Really Chicken
  3. Salute to Toshiro Mifune: Japan’s Greatest Movie Star
  4. Rock Gods in Japan: Who’s Appropriating Who?
  5. Blowback: Sunak, Kishida & the Supercompetitive Yen
  6. Currency Crunch: The Yen is massively mispriced
  7. Reflections on a Funeral
  8. Shinzo Abe’s Legacy Part 2: A More Comfortable, Confident and Asian Japan
  9. Bopping and Bathing in Beppu
  10. Shinzo Abe’s Legacy Part 1: Normalizing Japan
  11. Herzog’s Onoda: The Twilight World
  12. Yakushima: Where I Met the God of the Forest
  13. My Favourite Things: Wasabi up your nose
  14. Laugh and Live: A Barbarian on Japan’s Art Island
  15. “The Walking Major”: Yujiro, Mifune & Young Sinatra
  16. The Politician: Reconsidering Shintaro Ishihara Part 3
  17. Inflation: The Japanese Exception
  18. The Hunter: Reconsidering Shintaro Ishihara Part 2
  19. The Provocateur: Reconsidering Shintaro Ishihara
  20. Review: The Why, Where & When of Populism
  21. The Salesman from Hell: Fujiko A.’s Dark Masterpiece
  22. Joan Miro’s Japanese Dream
  23. How the Weak Yen will Re-energize Japan
  24. Review: Surviving the New Era of Great Power Conflict
  25. Notes From the Quarantine Zone: Who Needs Kishida’s Harsher Border Measures?
  26. Why has the World Gone Dotty Over Yayoi Kusama? Ask Mark Zuckerberg and Jay Powell!
  27. Blue Kissa: Coffee, Jazz and Cultural Improvisation
  28. Five Shocking Scenarios for the Year of the Tiger

2021 25

  1. Shibusawa: From Fiery Rebel to Venture Capital Pioneer
  2. The Inequality Games: Where Does Japan Place?
  3. Onoda: The Man Who Fought Reality
  4. Shirakawa: The Last Shogun of Hard Money
  5. “Monkey Man”: Book Review
  6. Dancing Cats and White Saviours: Johnny Depp in “Minamata”
  7. The Baron Smiles: The Olympics Win Again
  8. Curried Narratives: An Indian Revolutionary’s View of Japan
  9. Witches and Demons on the Road to Olympic Glory
  10. “Runner”: Why We Need the Olympics More Than Ever
  11. “Lady Joker”: What Goes Around Comes Around
  12. Decolonizing the Curry-culum: Japan’s Indian Connection Part 2
  13. Love, Curry and the Quad: Japan’s Indian Connection Part 1
  14. Goodbye to the Future: The Last Days of the Nakagin Capsule Tower
  15. “AGANAI – Me and the Cult Leader”
  16. The First Samurai: Remembering Toshiro Mifune
  17. Tokyo Junkie: Robert Whiting’s Japan
  18. Remembering 3.11: Faces and Voices of Resilience Part 2
  19. Remembering 3.11: Faces and Voices of Resilience Part 1
  20. Burn On, Joe! A 1960s Manga Icon Lifts Spirits Today
  21. Nikkei 30,000: Why it matters
  22. The Covid Bubble: How and When will it Pop?
  23. Dan Yergin’s “The New Map”: How Rising Asia Will Ensure the Future of Fossil Fuels
  24. Can Biden Do What Ikeda Did? How Japan Ended An Era of Destructive Polarisation
  25. Peering into 2021: Tanjiro Kamado Battles Big Tech

2020 46

  1. Moby BoJ: How the Bank of Japan Can Exit its ETF Trap
  2. Japan Can Capitalize Strategically On Its (Relative) Covid Success
  3. Mishima in the Twenty First Century
  4. The Return of Yukio Mishima
  5. The Gambler Vs. The Bodybuilder: Shuji Terayama Meets Yukio Mishima
  6. “My Heart Sutra”, by Frederik L. Schodt
  7. Sayonara, Bondo-san: Sean Connery’s Japan
  8. “Hey, America!”: Poem by Shuji Terayama (abridged)
  9. Japan’s Joe Biden Problem
  10. Harvey Weinstein Dates Princess Mononoke: How Studio Ghibli Went Global
  11. Steal All the Clocks: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles Pt.6
  12. What’s French for Bullshit? Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles Pt. 5
  13. Six Reasons Why Shinzo Abe Could Make Another Comeback
  14. “One Love Chigusa”: Soji Shimada’s Homage to Tezuka
  15. At Last: Buffett Validates Abe’s Legacy
  16. The Ghost of Kurosawa: A Samurai Videogame Channels History
  17. The Abe Legacy: How Japan Got Its Mojo Back
  18. The Triumph of Imagining: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles Pt. 4
  19. Top 10 Olympic Movies: From Clint Eastwood to Chris Marker
  20. Anti-fragile Corporate Japan
  21. The Geopolitics of Travel Bubbles
  22. Hong Kong Crackdown: Implications for Japan
  23. The World Won’t Turn Japanese for Long: Inflation Is Coming
  24. Bagism, Dragism, Madism: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles Part 3
  25. Smoke Your Pubes: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles 2
  26. P***ing in the Churchyard: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles
  27. Virus Diary: Science Fiction
  28. Samsung’s Cosmic Self – How a Korean Company Beat the Japanese at Their Own Game
  29. Japan’s Pandemic Paradox: From Spanish Flu to Covid-19
  30. Virus Diary: Uses and Abuses of a Pandemic
  31. Empire of Masks: the World Turns Japanese Again
  32. Journey to Fear Mountain
  33. Virus Diary: Albert’s Blues
  34. Warning from Japan: Deep Recessions Cost Lives Too
  35. Virus Diary: The Pangolin Smiles
  36. Japan After the Virus: From Abenomics to Coronanomics
  37. Alan Merrill’s Japan: a Magical Moment
  38. Cherry Blossom Viewing in the Year of the Virus
  39. The Whirr of Helicopter Blades: Regime Change is Coming
  40. The Virus Shock: Cut Taxes Now to Save Abenomics!
  41. Going Global: Parasite Vs. Winnie the Pooh
  42. Review: The Chronicles of Lord Asanaro
  43. Michi the Questioner
  44. Giri / Haji: A New Kind of Anglo-Japanese Alliance
  45. Davos Man on the Run: Ghosn’s Flight from Justice Will Fuel Populism
  46. 2020: Get Ready for the Geopolitical Olympics

2019 33

  1. At Last – the Missing Arrow!
  2. Abe’s New Word Order
  3. Intelligence Reforms: Time for a Japanese James Bond
  4. Postcards From Another Planet
  5. Can Japan Become the Sixth Eye?
  6. “Third” – Terayama’s last screenplay for somebody else
  7. Skin in the Game: Lessons from the Brave Blossoms
  8. My Haiku for the Rugby World Cup
  9. Japan is Still the Future
  10. Nikkei 39,000: Scenarios for a New High for Japanese Stocks
  11. Galactic Japanification – What Comes Next?
  12. Modern Monetary Theory: Coming Your Way Soon (Unless Big Changes Are Made)
  13. Bird Sorrowing for Spring: Yoko Ran at Mandala
  14. Sayonara to the Svengali of Boy Bands
  15. In the New Cold War, Japan and South Korea will be on different sides
  16. Carmen Maki’s Musical Half-Century
  17. Will Japan benefit from the New Cold War?
  18. Manga Amongst the Marbles: the Triumph of “Trashiness”
  19. When Worlds Collide: Carlos Ghosn at Namamugi
  20. New Era, New Emperor, New Realities
  21. Europe Turning Japanese? It’s Much Worse Than That!
  22. Dancing Fools and Watching Fools: Alan Booth’s Journey
  23. New Book: “On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director”
  24. Reiwa: Get Ready for the Age of Harmony and Auspicious Plum Blossom Viewing
  25. R.I.P. Yuya Uchida: Sayonara to Japan’s Mr. Rock’n Roll
  26. Japan’s Reflation Drive: Don’t Quit, Double Down!
  27. My Heisei Journey: From Bubble Fantasy to Solid Ground
  28. In Praise of Mess: Has Kondomania Gone Too Far?
  29. Scandal at Nissan: How Seven Samurai Toppled a Corporate Tyrant
  30. The Bull Market in Bungaku: Japan’s Literary Revival
  31. The World Is Bigger Through Kurosawa’s Eyes
  32. Lafcadio the Greek: The Man Who Dreamed Japan
  33. Will the Brave Blossoms Flourish?

2018 34

  1. New Terayama / Moriyama Publication: “Japan, A Photo Theater”
  2. The Ghosn Shock Should Spur Corporate Governance Reform
  3. Going, Going, Ghosn: Japan Takes Down Mr. Davos
  4. Why Mass Immigration Would be Disastrous for Japan
  5. Five Good Reasons to Ditch the Hike in Japan’s Consumption Tax
  6. First Love: The Hell Version
  7. Value Investment and Populism
  8. Sayonara to Tsukiji: Japan’s Fish Business Moves On
  9. The Sound of the Waves: Carmen Maki Does Terayama
  10. The Summertime Blues: Can Tokyo Find a Cure by 2020?
  11. Shinzo Abe: Un Puissant Antidote Au Populisme
  12. Secrets of the Abe Ascendancy
  13. Sunset on the Lake of Lion’s Tears: Terayama and Shinoda in the Early 60s Part 2
  14. How the Lehman Shock Helped Revive Japan
  15. Hail the Hated Heroes of Sport!
  16. Sunset on the Lake of Lion’s Tears: Terayama and Shinoda in the Early 60s
  17. Buraikan: Sex and Booze and Samisen
  18. When will an Asian Country Win the World Cup?
  19. Aum & Japan: 23 Years On
  20. No Love for Value: Markets at Extremes
  21. From Beijing to Bicester: Surviving the Era of “Overtourism”
  22. Review: Ryoma!
  23. Isle of Dodgy Stereotypes: Hollywood’s Japan Problem
  24. Betting the Pharma: Japan’s Misdirected M&A Boom
  25. Stranger in a Strange Land: Ian Buruma’s Japan
  26. Abexit – How Much Would It Matter?
  27. Trump’s Path to the Nobel Prize
  28. Trade Wars: The Prequel
  29. Inflation on Mars: the Global Implications of Corbynomics
  30. Back to the future for the Yen
  31. Not Dead Yet: TPP.2 Could Be Bigger and Better
  32. Sun-dancing Kuroda Merits Another Term at the BoJ
  33. Hail, King Kazu: an Iconic Footballer Ages with Passion and Style
  34. Video Letter: Terayama / Tanikawa

2017 26

  1. Back from the Dead: the Rebirth of Japanese Stocks
  2. Game On: Japanese Cuisine Goes Wild
  3. Arigato, Trump-san: Japan’s Wake-up Call
  4. Review: Asia’s Reckoning
  5. Abe’s Next Move: Stoking a Mini-Boom
  6. “Ah, the Wasteland” : New Terayama Film
  7. Electoral Affinities: How Abe Could Win by Losing
  8. The Asian Missile Crisis: the Message from Machiavelli
  9. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Japanese Surreality: Yasutaka Tsutsui
  10. Can Abe Get His Mojo Back?
  11. 2050: Japan’s Cultural Footprint
  12. “I M Fired” – How the Asian Financial Crisis Helped Asia and Harmed the West
  13. Rise of the Robocats: How Labour Shortages Will Change Japan
  14. British House / Japanese House: We’re All Rabbits Now
  15. James Bond’s Secret Mission: To Revive the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
  16. The Multi-talented Mr. Aquirax
  17. In Praise of Inauthenticity: Ghost in the Shell
  18. The Year of Scandal: How the Fate of Abe and Park Affect Regional Security
  19. The Brightening Message from Small Cap Japan
  20. Assassin’s Creed: North Korea at the Brink
  21. North Korean Assassination: The Novel!
  22. Trump and Abe on the Fairway to Heaven
  23. Can Scandal Spur Change at Toshiba and Samsung?
  24. From Endo to Dylan: TV Ads Bridge the Cultural Divide
  25. What Trump Means for Markets: The Great Reversal
  26. Martin Scorsese’s Searing “Silence”

2016 39

  1. The New Message from Pearl Harbour
  2. Planet Trump: Will Japan Be A Winner Or A Loser?
  3. Humped, Dumped and Trumped: Globalization in Trouble
  4. The Kuroda Conundrum: Tapering or Fuelling the Helicopter
  5. Karma Chameleon: William Empson in Japan
  6. Mao, Trump or Kate? The Value Of Modern Monarchy
  7. Godzilla vs. The Japanese Constitution
  8. Silver Satisfaction for Ageing Asia
  9. The Dead City: Japan’s Isle of Modern Ruin
  10. The End of the Night: Maki’s Travelling Blues
  11. Amoeba City: Tokyo 2020
  12. Abemon Go: Constitutional Reform and Reflation
  13. Hardier than the Male: Women Leaders Subvert the Stereotypes
  14. Dragon Dance: Reloaded
  15. Post-Brexit: A New Era for Anglo-Asian Relations
  16. Tokyo Noir – The Silent Dead
  17. The Widowmaker’s Message: Bring an End to Austerity
  18. Anarchy in the UK: Four Key Questions for the Post-Brexit World
  19. We’d Love to Change Your Head: Japan’s Beatlemanic Moment
  20. Brexit and the Unravelling of Europe
  21. Night Opens My Dreams: Kan Mikami’s North Country Blues
  22. Britain’s Brexistential Choice: Lessons for Japan
  23. Time for Abenomics 2.0
  24. Why Obama’s Historic Hiroshima Visit is a Mistake
  25. One More Cup of Saké for the Road: Dylan Translated and Transformed
  26. Abe Still Holds The Strong Cards
  27. Can Japan Survive Mass Tourism?
  28. At the Sharp End of Global Restructuring: Terry Gou’s Gamble
  29. Tangled Up In Tokyo: the Japanese Side of Bob Dylan
  30. Abe’s Next Move: Doubling Down on Growth
  31. Three Women, Three Rear Windows
  32. Why No Trump-san? Japanese Lessons on Populism
  33. Rebelling Against Reality: Jodorowsky vs. Terayama
  34. Democracy: Ask an Expert, or Maybe Not
  35. Beware The Psycho
  36. Enter the Ninja – Kuroda’s Negative Therapy
  37. Taiwan’s Coming Tilt to Japan
  38. R.I.P. Bowie: “Like some cat from Japan…”
  39. Five Market Mysteries for the Year of the Monkey

2015 44

  1. New Terayama / Moriyama Project – Now on Sale!
  2. Banknote Politics: It’s All About the Yukichis
  3. Dead People Turn Into Words
  4. Grossly Deceptive Parameters
  5. Electric Kabuki
  6. Terayama’s China Doll
  7. “I Love You, Ken Takakura”
  8. Britain’s China Pivot Spells Opportunity for Japan
  9. One Hundred Million Pop Song People
  10. Busted – How Low Can Commodities Go?
  11. Can Japan Survive Mass Tourism?
  12. Planet Rugby Sends the World a Message
  13. China and the Three Japans
  14. Twenty First Century Schizoid Markets
  15. Farewell to the Ark
  16. The Year of the Historian
  17. What the Nikkei-FT Deal Says about the World (and Japan)
  18. Maggie Abe and the Eggheads of Doom
  19. Memories of Silk and Straw
  20. Eurogeddon – the Japanese Perspective
  21. Joey in Japan
  22. Twilight of the Technocrats
  23. This Year’s Model
  24. Japan’s Immigration Dilemma
  25. Tokyo Dystopia
  26. FIFA Should Be More Like the ADB
  27. Who are the Brain Police?
  28. I Don’t Know War
  29. Abe and the Historians
  30. Will Japan Become the Britain of Asia?
  31. The Japanese Spring
  32. Get Ready for the Asian History Games
  33. Tomorrow’s Joe
  34. Who’s Banking on China?
  35. The Seagull Laughs
  36. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  37. What Can Abe Teach Europe?
  38. The Sumo Champ in the Bath
  39. The End of the Japanese Ice Age
  40. The Wave of the Future: Japan’s “Happy” Chinese New Year
  41. Piketty “Live in Japan”
  42. Asian Lessons from a Greek Tragedy
  43. Terayama on Life, Death and Fathers
  44. The Oil Factor: Apocalypse Postponed

2014 32

  1. Prepare for the Coming Japanese Boom
  2. Abe Seals the Deal
  3. John Cleese on Abenomics
  4. Abe Gambles on Growth
  5. When Abe Met Xi: East Asia’s New Normal
  6. Kuroda Unchained
  7. High Noon for Haruhiko Kuroda
  8. We Are All Japanese Now
  9. The Last Virgin Flies Out Of Tokyo
  10. The World is not Flat
  11. Abe Road is the only path for Japan
  12. Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
  13. Japan’s Scottish Option
  14. The Dark Side of Womenomics
  15. Abe’s Moment of Truth
  16. Terayama’s Mama
  17. Tokyo Dick
  18. What the World Cup Says about the World
  19. Whatever Happened to the Beijing Consensus?
  20. One Cheer For Thai Democracy
  21. Shuji Terayama TV Commercial
  22. Capitalism Heads East
  23. Stranded in the Jungle
  24. What if China Devalues?
  25. Is Abenomics Working Too Well?
  26. Historical Fiction
  27. Abe Offers Japanese Lessons for Europe
  28. Sayonara, Tourist-san
  29. Tokyo’s New Guv’nor
  30. Exorcising the Deflationary Demon
  31. Abe Road 2014
  32. Where’s Voldemort?

2013 21

  1. Higher Wages are Coming to Japan
  2. Shinzo Abe’s Challenge to China
  3. Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept?
  4. Our Terayama Project – Finally on Sale
  5. Abenomics: the Perils of Success
  6. Get Ready for the Kuroda Put
  7. Austin Powers on Abenomics
  8. Hegel on Abenomics
  9. Burt Lancaster on Abenomics
  10. Morrissey on Abenomics
  11. Nietzsche on Abenomics
  12. Churchill on Abenomics
  13. Abenomics & Nationalism
  14. Back to the Future: Japan and the World Depression
  15. The Wheel of Fortune
  16. Abenomics: the Moment of Truth
  17. Winning the Currency Olympics
  18. Thoreau in Hokkaido
  19. Abe Gets His Ya-Ya’s Out
  20. Japan Goes For Growth
  21. Fishy Business

2012 18

  1. Sayonara, Mr. Bond
  2. Japan Reflates
  3. You Say Diaoyu, I Say Senkaku
  4. Have a Golden Breakfast
  5. Killing Godzilla
  6. Armageddon Outta Here
  7. The Fish That Can Save Japan’s Economy
  8. Lucifer Rising in the Eurozone
  9. The Greatest City in the World is?
  10. Marine’s Movies
  11. Beyond the Stereotypes
  12. Reflating Japan
  13. Erotic Investment: Snowball vs. Goldfinger
  14. Sayonara to Hard Money: Here Comes Global QE
  15. Austerity Fatigue: LePen & Hash-ism
  16. When PIIGS Beat BRICS
  17. I am a Digital Cat: A Japanese Future
  18. Christmas In Havana

2011 16

  1. Who’s Stuffed The Most?
  2. Olympus The Movie
  3. Cooking The Books
  4. Going Back To Tohoku
  5. The Retreat From Hard Money
  6. Gold – The Bubble in Fear
  7. Debt Dynamics – The Lesson From Japan
  8. Invited Response To Jim O’neill’s “A-List”
  9. Too Much, Too Young – Emerging Market Risks
  10. After The Quake – Too Much Love
  11. New Lessons From Japan
  12. After The Quake – Market Response
  13. The Day Of The Quake : The Catfish Breaks Free
  14. Wrong About Japan
  15. The Japanese Debt Disaster Movie
  16. When China Hits a Bric Wall

2010 16

  1. What The World Cup Tells Us About The World Economy
  2. Hubble, Bubble, Emerging Trouble
  3. China Gets Japan Wrong
  4. Money Wars In The Age Of Fracture
  5. Darth Ozawa To The Rescue
  6. We’re Turning Japanese, Not Greek
  7. Yen has edge over gold in battle for supremacy
  8. A Hedge Fund Manager Hits Back
  9. How Not To Invest In Emerging Markets
  10. The Perils of “Kansianism”
  11. Why Di-Worsify Into Commodities?
  12. I Am A Digital Cat – A Story Of The Future
  13. Japan’s Mythical Debt Crisis
  14. Sayonara Toyota?
  15. How Japan Can Get Its Mojo Back
  16. Hatoyama’s To-Do List

2009 7

  1. China rushes towards a Japan-style bubble
  2. A French Kiss from Japan
  3. Can Japan Get Its Mojo Back?
  4. The economics of folly
  5. The Rock Star Bears
  6. No Panties Capitalism – Are We Turning Japanese?
  7. Bonuses Don’t Create Bubbles

2007 4

  1. Japan’s Choices
  2. The Chinese Bubble – Same Movie, Different Cast
  3. Same Movie, Different Cast: The China Bubble In 7 Stages
  4. Thank You, Mr. Abe

2006 1

  1. Vulture’s Banquet

2003 1

  1. Dragon Dance

2002 1

  1. Wind of the Gods

2001 1

  1. Samurai Boogie

1999 1

  1. Japan In Play

1997 2

  1. Japan 2020
  2. Buddha Kiss

1994 1

  1. Silent Thunder

1992 1

  1. The End of the Japanese Golden Era