Friday, October 9, 2009

Pachinko Mania in Tokyo

When I lived in Tokyo many years ago, I shared a house in Soshigaya Okura with a pair of American English teachers who were just mad about pachinko. Oh, and drinking. It seemed the only way to escape the conformity and pressures of life in Japan, although they were indirectly supporting their local Yakuza. Here's a video from director Wim Wenders.

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