Confessions of a Mask Madelaine Vázquez Gálvez In a small back alley

In a small back alley in Tokyo

this book provides an invaluable framework for understanding ongoing debates and finding a way forward

Audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince

Nana Mclean

The album was self-produced and originally released in May 2004

Confessions of a Mask Madelaine Vázquez Gálvez In a small back alleyThe dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in Guido Reni's painting; the objects of our hero's desire are tortured, killed and maimed, over and over again each night in his private fantasies. He must hide his lust from a homophobic and stiflingly conventional Japan. Self loathing