The East Coast premiere of the new Appleseed anime movie — directed by stalwart butt-kicker John Woo no less — might be enough to get some folks down to Washington, D.C. for Japan! Culture + Hyperculture, but there’s plenty for the big, serious kids, too. Like tons of butoh master dance and the Japan National Theatre Ballet.

One unique event is the performance by OKI Dub Ainu Band, which takes an obscure traditional instrument, the tonkori, used by the Ainu people in Northern Japan in their folk tunes, and fuses it’s tones with reggae, dub, and African beats.

Oh, and there are robots, of course. When are there not robots? I love Japan.