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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.
Kan Yasuda's art somehow draws in the landscape, and entices in people, so that it is natural to explore the view through his structures and keyholes, to sit awhile atop a sculpture or to pose within their frames.
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of “manic depression.”
Getting slapped by a a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan.
François Truffaut once said that the most important quality for a filmmaker is to retain his inner child. In that sense, Michel Gondry fits the bill almost to a fault.
Being a teenager in America must be more delightful than being a teenager in Pakistan, right? But as “The We and the I” demonstrates with much insight and jarring eloquence, the American teen deal comes with its own pain. No, really. Handcrafted with loving ...
They just don’t make movies like “The Last Stand” anymore: so bad that bad becomes the new normal. Directed by Korea’s Kim Jee Woon (“The Good, the Bad and the Weird”), this resurrects the “Governator” aka Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his first lead role in ...
Director: Gabriela Tagliavini Language: English Say hello again to Sharon Stone in this espionage thriller, fraught with old-school spy aesthetics. Stone plays a journalist trying to uncover the dirt behind human smuggling on the Mexican border, while also searching for her missing brother (Billy ...
Lincoln” naysayers on the film’s release in the United States mainly commented on two things: the historical error committed by Steven Spielberg when in a climactic scene the director showed a Connecticut congressman voting against the abolition of slavery; and that everyone’s teeth, including ...
Tokyo Disneyland (or “TDL” as it’s known to the Japanese) turns 30 on April 15, but like George Clooney, or heck, even the famed Mouse himself, age hasn’t withered it a bit. TDL means different things to the Japanese, but if you sift through ...
Seventy-six year old Ken Loach can be described as the UK's leftist conscience, always parked somewhere in the corner of the welfare state.
Dr. Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen), an enlightened German intellectual, is hired to coach Christian on the basics of managing a kingdom, being a husband and other useful skills. Christian turns to putty in the hands of the learned doctor — but so does Caroline. Soon ...
Director: Simon West Language: English Nicolas Cage plays a former thief who had pulled off impressive heists in his day but ended up in prison. When he’s released eight years later, an ex-buddy is out for revenge, and his teenage daughter is kidnapped, locked ...
I was one of those suckers who thought that the seifu (政府, government) might get it right this time.
A more suitable title to this would be: “Hitch and Alma: The love story.” But as Alma — the wife of cinema giant Alfred Hitchcock — complains in this fictional and wildly entertaining account of Hitchcock’s private life, no one pays her any attention ...
Director: Jim Loach Language: English Ken Loach’s son Jim reveals to the world a piece of hidden history: From the late 19th century to 1970, Britain deported children to Australia as cheap labor. In 1986, social worker Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) finally blew the ...