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TOM HANKS

Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2020
Social media helps bigwigs and entertainers weigh in on Abe's response to pandemic
The spike in infections is prompting celebrities and social media influencers to use the internet to push for decisive action to minimize social contact.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2016
'Inferno': Tom Hanks can hold up a franchise
Times will change and tides will always turn, but there's one thing you can count on: movies starring Tom Hanks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 28, 2016
'Sully': Ditching the plane to save lives
For a while I thought Harrison Ford should run for U.S. president, but now I'm convinced Tom Hanks is the one, with Clint Eastwood as secretary of state. The two have teamed up for "Sully" (Eastwood directing and Hanks as the titular character), the true-to-life story of an airplane accident that happened in January 2009.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 6, 2016
Spielberg captures Cold War fears in 'Bridge of Spies'
Mankind owes much to Steven Spielberg. Without him, many of us would never have known the existence of Oskar Schindler ("Schindler's List"), become aware of the events behind the Munich Olympics in 1972 ("Munich"), seen the U.S. slave trade depicted in a major Hollywood production ("Amistad") or learned about the private life of Abraham Lincoln ("Lincoln"), not to mention get a full-on description of the World War II invasion of Normandy ("Saving Private Ryan"). There's more, but you get the point: Spielberg can spin entertainment out of anything. What could turn into a history lesson in another filmmaker's hands, becomes a box-office mega-sensation and Academy Award winner in the factory of Steven Spielberg. Granted, it doesn't happen every time, but when you think about his lengthy and amazing career, an Olympic slogan of old may come to mind: "Impossible is Nothing."
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
Paul Greengrass brings real-life action to the screen with 'Captain Phillips'
Paul Greengrass once seemed like the least likely candidate to be a director of Hollywood blockbusters: the Cambridge graduate started his career by putting in 10 years as a documentary filmmaker/journalist for the hard-hitting British current affairs program "World In Action." When he moved into feature films, it was always with topics that had political content, like his debut, "Resurrected," in 1989, about a Falklands War deserter, or "Bloody Sunday" (2002), about the 1972 massacre of civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland.
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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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world