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“The Vengeance Trilogy” are three korean films made by the Park Chan-wook. The three films plot is not connect but all of them are about vengeance, about brutal and savage vengeance. They also share the same obscure, kafkian and violent atmosphere. The three movies are: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance. All of [...]
I’m a Shaolin Soccer fan but I didn’t know about Shaolin Girl until recently. Shaolin Girl is a Japanese re-make where the main characters are girls instead of guys. Shaolin Girl is a Japanese pro with girls instead of guys. Did you like Shaolin Soccer? And Shaolin Girl?
A canned coffee brand called Boss is using Tommy Lee Jones as their image since two years ago. Canned coffee can be found almost everywhere in Japan, in convenience stores, in supermarkets and also in vending machines, where the user can select whether to have it hot or cold directly from the vending machine. Boss [...]
Naoki Urasawa, the author of Pluto and Monster latest manga hit is 20th Century Boys. I liked a lot 20th Century Boys, it is very similar to Monster in structure but even longer. 20th Century Boys is so popular in Japan that they are making a trilogy of movies. The advertising campaign for the [...]
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¡Indiana Jones!
By the way, did you like the last Indy movie?
During the last Wonder Festival I met Takahashi-san, an artist who works in a traditional special effects company, they don’t use computers. Here there are some of his Godzilla models that were used in two Japanese B series films.
Last weeks I’ve been watching How I met your mother, it’s really fun and at the same time it teaches you many life lessons. What I like the most are the really different character personalities, even though all the main characters are all radically different they are very good friends and they are always doing [...]
The oldest building in Shibuya(A little bit more than 50 years) is gonna be demolished in some weeks. The building is known because the rental space is really cheap, and it’s full of little companies that can manage to do their businesses with 20 square meters. But it’s even more well known because it was [...]
Akira Kurosawa is one of the best directors in history. What I didn’t know is that when he was young he wanted to become a painter, but he ended up being a film director. He didn’t stop dedicating time to his passion, he draw every scene of his films by hand; he made colored/artistic storyboards. [...]
Hiro Nakamura is Heroes main character (If you are not watching Heroes, what are you waiting for!), he has a sword that belonged to someone called “Takezo Kensei”. The cool thing is “Takezo Kensei” is not a fiction character, he was a real samurai, in fact he is probably the most “famous” samurai ever. If [...]
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