I saw a very good movie, an academy award winning Japanese film (2009 Best Foreign Language Film of the Year), Departures, or Okuribito as it is called in Japan. It is very good, I highly recommend it. First, it would be amiss to not mention the main character’s name is Daigo. I used to tell [...]
I didn’t grow up watching Happy Days like my wife, and barely remember Karate Kid, but of course I know who Matsuo ‘Arnold’ Takahashi is and who could forget who Mr. Kesuke Miyagi is… Noriyuki “Pat” Morita just passed away on thanksgiving day. played a role in more than 100 films, and was one of [...]
For my work, I wrote a little personal blog piece about baseball steroid issue. The not-so-super baseball superheroes. Enjoy! Speaking of superhero, I saw The Incredibles. It was one of the best animated film I’ve seen. I enjoyed it very much.
Oh my, I haven’t posted here for over two weeks! I have been busy updating JapaneseBallPlayers.com, (that is, when I am not shoveling) and am finally happy with how it is working now. I did a major backend upgrade and most everything is database-driven. Pretty cool. I am just learning so much about php/mysql stuff. [...]
I saw Dogville last night. It was… well, good. Actually great movie: the scenes, set concept (theater stage like setting) and lighting and photography was wonderful. Acting was great. But story was… depressing. People being sad, mean, unfair, taking advantage and passively accepting injustis. Benefiting from other poeple’s misfortune, to quote from the film. Like [...]
I just saw a movie Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (IMDB, AllMovie). The movie has very interesting topic and pretty strong message. It is about WWII and Atom Bomb on Nagasaki, and how the surviver of the war (grandma) cope with loss and change of time. The whole Atomic Bomb thing is a topic [...]
Was able to watch Fahrenheit 9/11, thanks to Netflix. Michael Moore is no doubt good at what he does. In the movie he somehow makes the point without being too in your face (unlike when he is on Bill Maher’s show etc.) The whole part about the Bush family’s connection with Bin Laden family and [...]
Got my first three movies. Better Luck Tomorrow, Casablanca, and In America. In America was great. It is a hard movie to swallow for poeple like me who just became dad. I guess it makes you realize how good you have it and make you appreciate your everyday. Very good, it made me cry. Though, [...]
I just saw a most brilliant movie, its Tampopo (All Movie, imdb, nytimes) by Juzo Itami. Damn, it was good. Very Monty Python like, “…and now something completely different…” and has awesome food scenes. Ramen, of course, French, Italian (how to eat spaghetti), DIm Sum on the train (?), Moo Shoo Duck, Zaru Soba, Korean [...]
I may be involved in production of Cabaret, the musical as part of Kit Kat Klub Band. I am just collecting links now… Story line Back ground Fan page fan page Lyrics musicals.net links
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