The Tokyo Trickery of

Yosuke Kobayashi

This month, our Regional Vice President for Japan, Steve Marshall, who’s also our most honorable trick writer-upper and illustrative photographer for "Asian Astonishments," turns his talents toward cinéma vérité. That means he took along his trusty video camera when he met up with February’s featured magician Yosuke Kobayashi, at a Starbuck’s in Tokyo. And once they’d decided on the tricks that were going to be taught in M-U-M, Steve digitally documented Yosuke performing them and uploaded the clips to YouTube! Here there are:

Be warned that these are performance-only videos. You will have to go to the "Asian Astonishments" column (pages 28-30) in your February issue of M-U-M to learn how they’re done. You’ll also have the opportunity to read all about the inventive young Yosuke Kobayashi, a protégé of Japanese master Hiro Sakai, who’s making quite a name for himself in the Land of the Rising Sun with his lectures on close-up magic.