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 cin�ma v�rit�. 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 prot�g� 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.