ABOUT ME

Konnichiwa. [UPDATED: 12 Nov 2013]

I'm Lyo, who is a 20-year-old male from Japan, currently living in Aix-en-Provence, France. I'm here until the next 2014 summer as an exchange student of my univ. in Tokyo for a year, and then planning to go and live in Burkina Faso, in the Western Africa for several months.

I have interests in the field of culture. I love cinema, music and photography. The reason why I plan to get to Africa is supposed to be unusual to certains though, it's just my curiosity towards African modern culture. That's also what I studied at the university in Tokyo.

Nice to meet you all !

Interests

Cinema, Photography, Music...

I started to be interested in art history in the West as i live in France, but for me it's like wine or cheese, i really dont know from where i can try to approach since it's so vast ! maybe i should have a good prof;)

• arts
• culture
• photography
• wine
• cheese
• movies
• music
• art history
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies :
if somebody asks me 'who is a directer you like the most ?', i'm give him the name of Andrei Tarkovsky. I love Russian cult movies as well.

Leos Carax, Alain Renais, Roman Polanski, Quentin Tarantino, Aki Kaurismaki, Carles Reygadas, Kim Kiduk.
Japanese directers : Daihachi Yoshida, Sono Shion, Takeshi Kitano.

Books :
"Brothers of Karamazov" by Dostoevski
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
"The Great Gatsby" by Scott Fitzgerald
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

Yukio Mishima, Haruki Murakami, Ango Sakaguchi.

Music :
The High Llamas, The Books, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Meters, Duke Ellington, XTC, The Skatalites...

Happyend, Hosono Haruomi, Tatsuro Yamashita, Tama, cero, Cornelius, rei harakami, Ichiko Aoba....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Was a SHEPHERD in a mountain, at the settlement of about 30 Turkish locals who cannot speak any single word of English in Turkey for a week.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Italy, Laos, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Japan