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Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Parts Unknown’ Episode 7 Recap: Sushi and Sex in Tokyo

Samantha Shankman

Photo Credit: Anthony Bourdain goes to hear a japanese band led by lead singer Yu, shown above.  Parts Unknown CNN

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This is not the Tokyo that the city's Olympic committee wanted anyone to see before or after it was selected as the 2020 host. Bourdain takes Tokyo's bizarre side culture and questions just how strange it, or each of us, are.

Anthony Bourdain explains last night's episode of Parts Unknown as "one of the most brilliantly shot and edited episodes" that his crew has ever done. It could also easily be considered one of the edgiest and most provocative. Bourdain's trip through Tokyo is as much about sushi as it is about fantasy, fetishisms, obsessions, and sex. And rather than digging into Tokyo's past, Bourdain takes viewers' shock and turns it on themselves, asking viewers to question how differently these scenes are from their own dark desires. The episode starts with a trip to what Bourdain calls "the greatest show" he'

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