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Post-apocalyptic Tokyo

Found an article reading Pinktentacle where I discovered an artist expert in lithographies called Motoda Hisaharu. His works are really good, the level of detail is just impressive. He made a series of lithographies based on the hypothesis that Tokyo would be destroyed by a natural catastrophe. I took some of those lithographies and tried to find pictures I’ve taken from similar places.

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Ginza 4-Chome crossing.

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Ginza 4-Chome nowadays. The picture is taken a little bit “nearer” than the previous representation.

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Shibuya crossing.

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Taken farther away, but still you can find the Samsung and the 109 ads that are also in the previous lithography.

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Ameyoko.

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Entrance to the left street in the previous drawing.

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Main Ginza street.

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Same street, more or less the same place but you can only see the left side buildings.

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Akira Kurosawa drawings

Akira Kurosawa is one of the best directors in history. What I didn’t know is that when he was young he wanted to become a painter, but he ended up being a film director. He didn’t stop dedicating time to his passion, he draw every scene of his films by hand; he made colored/artistic storyboards. For example, in order to start filming the movie Ran he was 10 years drawing!

I went to an exposition where I could see some of the art he made for the films Ran and Dreams.

Some pictures from Akirakurosawa.info so you can grasp the essence of Kurosawa’s unique style.

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If you’ve never seen a Kurosawa film you can start watching Rashomon for free using Google Video