Times Out of Mind

While visiting Japan, animation writer Chris Robinson gets lost. Drifting through Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Kyoto, he stumbles into a string of encounters-with mysterious figures like Bob Dylan, Haruki Murakami, sumo wrestlers, and Big Bird, and, by good luck, with Japanese animators both living and dead. Each meeting draws him into a deep, dark, uncanny current of Japanese animation-one that has noth...