Tokyo Girls - Tapa dura

Japanese culture is different. Fascinatingly different. In his native Japan, Yasuji Watanabe from the trendy metropolis of Tokyo ranks among the stars of the younger generation of photographers. Though his oeuvre is in the tradition of the old master Nobuyoshi Araki, he has gone on to evolve his own unique erotic language of images. The girls in his pictures live out their erotic fantasies and obsessions in front of his camera. Watanabe understands them intuitively. He portrays the girls as they indulge in the pleasure of playing, as well as in their lust and sexuality, which can express itself as pain, loneliness, expectation, stimulation, melancholy and submission. An exciting visual trip into an exotic culture.