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HALLE BERRY

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 10, 2014
Frankie & Alice
Frankie (Halle Berry) is a go-go dancer in 1970s Los Angeles, who's raking it in at a nightclub in the Watts district and enjoying a fairly wild lifestyle, but increasing blackouts and psychotic episodes lead to her getting committed to a mental institution. There she finds herself under the care of Oz (Stellan Skarsgard), a concerned psychotherapist who soon discovers that Frankie suffers from multiple personality disorder.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 26, 2013
Second opinion: Our Top 3 films in cross-review
Regular JT film critics Mark Schilling, Kaori Shoji and Giovanni Fazio got together at the Uplink theater/restaurant in Shibuya to talk about each other's No. 1 films for 2013: "Cloud Atlas" (Fazio), "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (Shoji) and "Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (The Tale of Princess Kaguya)" (Schilling). The discussion was heated, but no crockery was thrown.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 28, 2013
'The Call'
Halle Berry has one of the sharpest, most distinctive haircuts in Hollywood, but in her latest, "The Call," she has no-nonsense, low-maintenance do that serves her character Jordan Turner well. Jordan is a 911 operator whose job requires dealing with dire emergencies around the clock. No time to fool around with mousse and a dryer.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 15, 2013
'Cloud Atlas'
'The nature of our immortal lives lies in the consequences of our actions." Thus spake Sonmi-451, a Fabricant, one of many identical cloned slaves in the post-eco-apocalyptic future depicted in "Cloud Atlas," the phenomenal new film codirected by Lana and Andy Wachowski of "The Matrix" and Tom Tykwer of "Run Lola Run." According to the laws of karma, around which this Rubik's Cube of a film seems to have been constructed, lives fade into lives and our future course will be rooted in both present and past actions. The weight of ingrained impulses — karma — becomes blind destiny. Unless we break out of it.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on