Grainy, moody photographs taken in decaying amusement bars, entertainment clubs and other seedy places in Yokosuka and Yokohama in the 1970s and 1980s. Miyako Ishiuchi captures the lost glamour, the alluring air of the forbidden and the smell of sex, but also the exploitation, horror and desperation of the post-war period that kept lingering within these ruins. Over time Ishiuchi felt her hate turn into love and affection. In her text she recalls her first visit to the EM Club in 1966, invited by a friend who was engaged to an American soldier.