Shigeru Izumiya lived many lives: underground folk singer, subversive poet, experimental filmmaker, Studio Ghibli voice actor, cyberpunk and J-pop pioneer, and eventually a tarento—the Japanese term for omnipresent television personalities. Because of that multiplicity, his work was often overlooked. But Light & Shadow (1973) remains one of the strangest records of the Japanese folk-rock era, filtering prostitution, child abandonment, and the spread of syphilis through cartoonish arrangements, theatrical declamations, and moments of perfect pop consciousness.