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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Kaori Shoji</title>
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		<title>&#8216;Flight&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Denzel Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Zemeckis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Be prepared for the most terrifying flying experience you&#8217;re ever likely to encounter, expertly created by Robert Zemeckis (&#8220;Forrest Gump,&#8221; &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221;) and engineered on-screen by Denzel Washington. &#8220;Flight&#8221; may put you off air travel for a while, but on the other hand if the plane you&#8217;re aboard should suddenly turn upside down, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Shadow Dancer&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrea Riseborough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clive Owen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Marsh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ll excuse the pun, Andrea Riseborough is a star on the rise. In her home ground of Great Britain she&#8217;s famed for her role in 2010&#8242;s &#8220;Brighton Rock,&#8221; and in the U.S. she turned heads last year with her performance in Madonna&#8217;s &#8220;W.E.&#8221; In her face you see a wealth of what many psychiatrists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Haywire&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Steven Soderbergh Language: English Check this out on DVD at a rental shop near you, or just go buy it &#8212; &#8220;Haywire&#8221; may turn out to be a keeper. Consider the tough and gritty Mallory Kane (mixed martial artist Gina Carano) in director Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s answer to the overdressed, over-emotional, over-relying-on-gadgets James Bond. High [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything you wanted to know about Western women (but were afraid to ask): No-holds-barred guide targets Japanese men</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front. ]]></description>
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		<title>Silver Linings Playbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silver linings playbook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes life falls off its dreary grid and takes on the texture and flavor of strawberry chiffon cake. That&#8217;s kind of what happens when watching &#8220;Silver Linings Playbook&#8221;: The more this romantic comedy-drama about an ex-teacher with mental-health problems and the people around him progresses, the more you&#8217;re glad to be alive, gratified to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing the love of short films to a local audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brilla Short Shorts Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tetsuya Bessho]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If there was a birthday cake for the Brillia Short Shorts Theater, it would probably be an elegant, minimalist affair — no excessive decorations, nothing too calorific and five slim candles giving off a modest orange glow. One of just four movie theaters in and around Tokyo dedicated to short films, Brillia Short Shorts turns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A Good Day to Die Hard&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[action movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Willis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Die Hard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heist films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking. You&#8217;re thinking that if you had to see yet another 20th-century action star, alive and well and kicking ass for the benefit of the over-40s crowd — and that star is Bruce Willis, whom you can remember as having a full head of hair (brunette) and a terrible taste in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Providing for old age somehow connects to V-day blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Onyanko Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valentine's Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a joshikōsei (女子高生, high school girl) friend of mine (yes, I&#8217;m fully aware of this exalted position) and she told me that these days in sociology class, Japanese teens are taught that by the time they start paying taxes, the ratio of college grad workers to nenkinzoku (年金族, pension plan tribe) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to cope when home is where the radiation is?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chernobyl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michale Boganim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When she hears the phrase &#8220;a sense of home,&#8221; filmmaker Michale Boganim always endures a wave of sadness. &#8220;Home can mean a whole lot of things, but to me it has connotations of displacement and loss,&#8221; she tells The Japan Times. &#8220;I come from a family that was always moving around, and even as we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Land of Oblivion&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chernobyl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land of Oblivion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 1996. Anya (Olga Kurylenko) works as a guide on a tour bus that takes people through Pripyat, a town located just 3 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The tourists, all of varying ages and nationalities, listen somewhat bored to Anya&#8217;s descriptions of April 26, 1986, a decade earlier, when the [...]]]></description>
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