Author Archives: Dan Asenlund

Unknown's avatar

About Dan Asenlund

I'm a writer, filmmaker and memory hunter from Stockholm, Sweden. Life and work have taken me on a circular journey through Sweden, the United States, Japan, South Korea and back to Sweden. My travel features have appeared in The Japan Times and Metropolis Magazine, my fiction in Eastlit Journal and my short films Four Degrees of Jonas Rydell and Cassandra Insköld's Last Word have screened at film festivals worldwide. I'm currently in post-production of a Berlin trilogy.

Donald Richie, Yasunari Kawabata and a lifelong dream come true

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Dan Asenlund

I can’t remember exactly when I first stumbled upon the name Donald Richie, but it was probably at one of my Japanese literature classes at the University of Oregon about ten years ago. Later, studying Japanese film, his name showed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Excerpts from my Japan Journal, 2007-08

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Dan Asenlund

September 23, 2007 On the train from Hakata to Beppu, just past Kurosaki. Heading east for the first time in a while. Chewing on sembei crackers brought from Sachiko in her family shop in Ogi, Arita, with Chris before the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

To be born in the wrong time – and the right at the same time

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Dan Asenlund

(originally published in Swedish on a gaming site) I’ve always cursed myself for being born in the wrong time, far away from all the action. While my grandparents saw Sweden blossom in the years following the Second World War, got … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment