Tadanori Yokoo was Japan's most subversive graphic artist. Ken Takakura was the untouchable god of Japanese masculine cinema. This book exists because Yokoo, by his own admission, was simply obsessed with the man. Not as cultural critique. As devotion.That tension is what makes it extraordinary. Yokoo's psychedelic visual language pressed against Takakura's austere, silent screen persona. Photography by Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe and Yoshihiro Tatsuki. 370 pages. Original 1969 edition, before the mythology of either man was fully written.
