This piece is a response to central ideas about identity portrayed in the following Japanese fiction & films: Fires on the Plain (Shohei Ooka, 1951), Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959), Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953), Tony Takitani (Haruki Murakami, 2002), and Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, 2004).