Things to do this week in Tokyo

Friday

Buddy Girl and Mechanic
Fans of shoegaze, 4AD-style dream pop and Krautrock are all likely to appreciate the eponymous debut full-length by Buddy Girl and Mechanic. The group hit UFO Club for the album release party tonight. Read more

Rubens
Inspired by Italy, established in Antwerp, now on show at the Bunkamura: this exhibition of Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens finishes on Sunday, but you should go today, when it stays open until 9pm. Read more

Lincoln
Remember that film that was supposed to win all the Oscars? Steven Spielberg's presidential drama – which did at least earn a third Best Actor gong for Daniel Day Lewis – finally opens in Tokyo cinemas today. Read more

Park Live Vol.02
Electro duo 80kidz head to Unit for the second in their Park Live series, this time featuring guest live sets by '80s-influenced 'city pop' combo (((Surround))) – aka Illreme and Traks Boys – and crunchy beatmaker Eli Walks. Read more

Mark Fry
Mark Fry was just a 19-year-old art student when he recorded debut album – and future cult classic – Dreaming With Alice in 1972. Four decades later, he's finally heading to Tokyo to give his psych-folk a live airing. Read more

Arrested Development
The peace-and-love hip-hoppers head back to the one country in the world where they don't risk being mixed up with a popular TV comedy show. Hang out with Speech and co at the Billboard Live tonight. Read more

High Street
Producer to Mariah Carey and members of the Wu-Tang family, Scram Jones is the special guest at this hip hop-themed party at Vision, with live support from Anarchy and DJs including the ever-reliable Muro. Read more

Intergalactic
The brains behind web radio station Block.fm (yay!) and M-Flo (boo!), Taku Takahashi presides over this genre-mashing, just-don't-call-it-EDM party, which boasts a guest set from LA-based Brit producer Sinden. Read more

Music Man
Expect to hear plenty of stone-cold classics when clubland veteran DJ Nori and guest DJ Kensei get busy on a vintage Thorens TD521 turntable and Urei mixer at Eleven – and it's free to get in if you arrive before 11pm. Read more

Saturday

Earth Day Tokyo 2013
Charities, NPOs and eco-conscious businesses flaunt their wares in Yoyogi Park for the Tokyo edition of the globe-straddling Earth Day event – also a foodie paradise for Tokyo's long-suffering vegetarian community. Read more

Tokyo International Bar Show
Expect top-notch cocktails and some ultra-rare whiskies at this two-day celebration of malt and the art of bartending, overseen by a quartet of 'legends and rising stars' from the international cocktail circuit. Read more

Yokohama Daidogei 2013
Clowns, acrobats, jazz musicians, samba dancers, slapstick comedians and mime artists take to the streets and malls of Yokohama during this weekend-long festival, a scaled-up version of the venerable Noge Daidogei. Read more

Odilon Redon: Les origines de la fantaisie
That great artist of the fantastic, Odilon Redon bucked the trends of late-19th century Impressionism in favour of exploring the realm of the interior – an interest that this show traces back to his youth in Bordeaux. Read more

Christopher Owens
Those still mourning the split of San Francisco’s psych-tinged indie-rock duo Girls, wipe away your tears: frontman Christopher Owens has returned in a solo capacity, and is bringing his Lysandre to Unit this evening. Read more

New 10am Film Festival
If you manage to get out of bed early enough, head to Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hill for their 10am screening of classic Audrey Hepburn rom-com Roman Holiday – which marks its 60th anniversary this year. Read more

Instant Parr
Art books don't get much more limited-edition than this: head to Paul Smith Space to edit and sequence your own book of pictures by Magnum photographer Martin Parr, then have it signed by the man himself. Read more

Beasts of the Southern Wild
True originals are hard to come by in cinema, but this heart-on-sleeve, deeply eccentric tale of life, love and loss in the flood waters of New Orleans truly merits the label. Beasts of the Southern Wild opens today. Read more

G-Dragon 2013 World Tour
The ice-cool leader of K-pop group Big Bang takes a break from shopping at avant-garde Koenji fashion boutiques to play a pair of dates at Saitama's Seibu Dome, in support of last year's infectious One of a Kind EP. Read more

Mala in Japan
Six months after having to cancel his gig at Unit with fellow Digital Mystikz member Coki, dreadlocked dubstep voyager Mala is finally returning to make amends, with some help from local hero Goth-Trad. Read more

F.A.D by Murua
Brit guitar slingers Mystery Jets put on their DJ hats for this hipster-baiting all-nighter at Sound Museum Vision, with electro-centric support including Dexpistols, The Lowbrows and Rip Slyme's Illmari and DJ Usus. Read more

Sound of Berghain
Barely a month seems to go by without Tokyo clubbers getting reminded that, yes, Berlin techno megalith Berghain is pretty damn special. Resident DJ Ben Klock heads to Eleven to refresh some memories tonight. Read more

Vitalic
Fist-pumping French producer Pascal Arbez, aka Vitalic, brings his Rave Age album tour to Tokyo for a night of maximalist electro action at Ageha, joined by local big guns Shinichi Osawa, Ken Ishii and Ryukyudisko. Read more

Sunday

Kawaii!! Matsuri
Recently returned from her trip to the US, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu headlines the second day of this gargantuan kawaii fest at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, alongside Scandal, Sekai no Owari and many others. Read more

Kamakura Matsuri
It's been going on all week, but most people know to wait until the final day of Kamakura's annual spring festival, when a yabusame (horseback archery) contest is held at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine. Read more

Bunkyo Azalea Festival
For 11 months of every year, Nezu Shrine doesn't attract all that much attention from the outside world. Then spring rolls around, and its remarkable crop of azaleas – some 3,000 plants in total – burst into bloom. Read more

Side Core Shintai/Baitai/Graffiti
Street culture-savvy artists including Ryota Kikuchi and Boredoms leader Eye explore the hinterland between art and graffiti in this free show at the new Terratoria space in Shinagawa. Finishes today. Read more

Switch Movie Fes. 2013
Culture mag Switch has compiled an eclectic lineup for this one-day film festival, from an Atsuko Maeda-hosted screening of Singin' in the Rain to advance previews of Saint Young Men and Stoker. Read more

Mark Fry (acoustic set)
After playing two evenings of band sets, cult acid-folk musician Mark Fry wraps up his first trip to Tokyo with an acoustic gig at UFO Club, featuring appropriately psychedelic support from Katsurei and the Ai Aso Group. Read more

‘Mono no Aware’ and Japanese Beauty
Nurture your appreciation of the ephemeral at the Suntory Museum of Art's spring exhibition, which revolves around the motifs of kacho fugetsu (flowers, birds, wind and moon) and setsugekka (sun, moon and flowers). Read more