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What do you read when you’re locked up in a Japanese jail for 23 days?

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 03, 2026
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Playwright Jeremy O. Harris — Slave Play, Daddy — was in Okinawa last year to make a film when Japanese customs found MDMA in his toiletry bag. He spent 23 days in a Japanese detention facility. He went through 23 books and submitted a movie outline to a major studio from his cell. He wrote about the experience for Vanity Fair.

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