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Remembering Kikuko “Kiku” Inouye Ito, who loved to quilt, bowl, and cook She also loved chocolate in all forms, but candy and Mallomars were favorites. Kikuko “Kiku” Inouye Ito Kikuko “Kiku” Inouye Ito was born to Asano (Watanabe) Inouye and Kikuichi Inouye in Brooklyn, New York on Dec. 22, 1922. She grew up in Brooklyn and later in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Starting at age 5, she worked as a cashier and hostess for her father’s Nikko restaurants. Her favorite pastimes were going to the “picture shows,” bowling and to Yankee Stadium, where she atten...

A scene from “Burai” (Provided by Rabbit House Co.) Director Kazuyuki Izutsu’s sympathetic portrayals of social outsiders have culminated in “Burai” (Outlaw), his first film in eight years, which follows a yakuza gang leader’s postwar life in the Showa Era (1926-1989). The story begins in 1956, when the economic white paper declared that Japan was no longer “postwar” because of its miraculous recovery from the ravages of World War II. Masaji Ito, a junior high school student living in a provincial city, beats up his selfish father and starts working as a day laborer. After his...