The forced vacation on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, where Cleveland's Youth of Asia reporter and former geisha lover Billy Chuck was sent, began with a slap in the face of the world-famous film director and came to an untimely end when the Night Porter took a direct flight from his hotel room to the afterlife. A hotel lost in the snow will be overrun by cats, and the great Japanese rock star will die in two areas of Tokyo at once. The head of the largest recording studio will speak with quotes from the Beatles, and his assistant will nostalgically recall the years spent in Osaka prison. A skinny bass guitarist will be obsessed with kickboxing, heavyweight twins will tell a brief history of rock and roll in chorus, and an untalented journalist will live in a cardboard house. In addition, a Swedish stripper will learn a couple of new swear words, several people will be “suspended” and frozen until 2099, and the Phoenix Society will go underground. And all those affected will once again be convinced of the maliciousness of the number “4”. What do you know about Hokkaido? That Hokkaido is the kingdom of snow and the meeting place between the hero Haruki Murakami and the Sheep Man? You don't know anything about Hokkaido yet. In Isaac Adamson's Hokkaido Popsicle, the Japan of samurai and cherry blossoms is forever mixed with the swashbuckling absurdity of Quentin Tarantino.