With the 1982 theatrical release of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner came eclecticism, its strobe-and-neon frenzy of commerce and urban bustle providing science fiction writers and producers with a thematic additive, even an alternative, to the traditional utopia-dystopia dichotomy. If today, compared to yesterday's notion of the future, is a result of prophecy or contrivance we might wish to debate, for here is a sight not far removed from that which was once built by Hollywood stagehands: in Tokyo, the placid venerability of Noh theater amid downtown's skyward panoply.