The 100 links in this post represent six years’ worth of freelance writing from a cinephile and Japanophile’s perspective. Here, you’ll find Japan-related film analysis and film-related travel writing that I’ve done for /Film, Inverse, Dread Central, Explore, and GaijinPot, including my Lost in Translation and Anthony Bourdain sightseeing guides, which respectively ranked as the #1 and #7 top-performing articles by organic search on the GaijinPot Blog the year they posted.

If you like movies and you’re interested in Japan, the links here offer a comprehensive guide to movie locations in Tokyo and elsewhere across the country. They also serve as the portfolio of a writer with press-accredited coverage of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

If you read last month’s blog entry, then you’ll know that The Gaijin Ghost is now a married man. When all is said and done, my wife and I will have enjoyed a honeymoon in three stages. The third and final stage will come when we take a trip to Florida next year, so she can meet my parents and sister in person for the first time (having only seen them on Skype or Facetime until now). If all goes well, we should be able to stay in the Sunshine State for about a week and visit Walt Disney World with my family.

The first and second leg of our honeymooning world tour already came this month, however, when we spent a night at the world’s oldest hotel in Yamanashi and spent another night at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, the 5-star luxury hotel where Lost in Translation was filmed.

In the film Silence, the character of Rodriguez, played by Andrew Garfield, exists simultaneously as a Christ figure and a Judas figure. The most pronounced instance of him being framed as the former is when he sees his reflection morph into the face of Christ while drinking from a stream. Yet like the movie itself, even this scene opens up a prism of interpretations if you mark it as an allusion to the Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image as mirrored in a pool of water.