This multimedia stage show about the life and stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is a cross-Pacific collaboration between Tom Lee and Koryū Nishikawa V of Hachiōji Kuruma Ningyō, and a big team of theater makers in Japan and the US. The Stringpullers created some of the filmed shadow puppet sequences projected behind the traditional Japanese “cart” puppetry performed by Koryū Nishikawa and his company. Opening to a limited audience (quarantine restrictions) in Hatchioji in June 2021, with plans to travel to the Chicago International Puppetry Festival in early 2022.