Blades in the City of Night - Twelve Memories of Murder Threats (2018-2019)

Blades in the City of Night - Twelve Memories of Murder Threats (2018-2019)

In Kabukicho in the late 2010s and early 2020s, the cabaret culture was connected to social networking sites and individuals were branded. An anonymous woman, Ms. C, was a successful and popular cabaret girl when she received twelve death threats from customers. She said that she was threatened that she would be unable to walk around Kabuki by the end of September if she simply refused their invitations. The nightlife district, once a place for corporate entertainment, has transformed into a "pseudo-love economy" between lonely individuals connected through social networking services, and the boundary between love and money has dissolved. The fear described by Ms. C is a symbol of night work in the age of SNS, and a microcosm of modern society where self-approval and dependence intersect. In a place where day and night, work and private affairs, approval and consumption intersect, her experience is a "cry without a voice" that highlights the distortions of the nighttime econo
my.