Articles tagged with: Koji Yakusho
by Chris and Kris
March 18, 2009
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Koji Yakusho, Kumiko Aso, Sho Aikawa, Shun Sugata, Ren Osuji
Genre: Drama
HE SAID:
License to Live is the tale of a young...
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by Chris
March 1, 2009
The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival begins March 12th, and boy does this year’s line-up look nice. Case in point, the festival’s Spotlight...
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by Chris
January 10, 2008
When I first picked up Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean I expected a standard, rather boring WWII submarine flick from the other side...
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by Chris and Kris
April 1, 2007
Directed by Kon Ichikawa, from a wonderful script (long since thought abandoned) by Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi, and himself, Dora-Heita is not so...
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by Chris and Kris
January 30, 2007
Here’s another batch of films to look out for. There’s actually some pretty cool stuff this time!
Aoki Okami . Japanese film on the life and...
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by Chris
November 13, 2006
Iñárritu’s latest is essentially a high minded anthology film tackling the lack of communication, compassion, and empathy in the world today. Given the amount of...
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by Chris
November 3, 2006
New Years Eve is a big deal in the states, but even more so in Japan. Think of our Christmas preparations times two. At the...
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by Chris
October 24, 2006
Director Masayuki Suo’s first film since Shall We Dansu?, Soredemo boku wa yattenai (aka: Even So, I Didn’t Do It) is now up on Quicktime...
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by Chris and Kris
January 5, 2006
I don’t know what it was, but 2005 was a pathetic year at the boxoffice. So much crap was shoveled into the cineplexes we couldn’t...
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by Chris
December 29, 2005
Over the Christmas weekend Kris and I attended showings of Brokeback Mountain and Memoirs of a Geisha. Having been reading the book for the past...
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by Kris
December 8, 2005
Let me remind you that Yakusho Koji (Tampopo, Charisma, Memoirs of a Geisha) is much more than a pair of walking cheekbones with a ‘fro....
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by Kris
July 22, 2005
Restore the rules of the world… Freedom’s just another disease… A truly healthy human longs to obey… These [magic] mushrooms are delicious!
CAN’T SEE THE...
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