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Epileptics beware.
So Kanye West’s video for “All of the Lights” has more than a passing resemblance to the opening credits of Gaspar Noe’s “Enter the Void,” which was filmed in Japan with several Japanese people in the crew.
Check them out for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfFfqiYLp0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8E&
Also, check out an earlier Kanye video that is essentially a set of recreations of scenes from “Akira.”
About Ben HamamotoBen Hamamoto is a writer born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He's been published in the Oakland Tribune and has written for New American Media's YO! Youth Outlook and the Nichi Bei Times. He is a research manager for the Health Horizons Program at the Institute for the Future. He also edits Nikkei Heritage, the National Japanese American Historical Society’s official magazine and contributes to Nichi Bei Weekly.
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