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. [...]
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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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This weekend I watched “Nihon Chinbotsu” (Japan Sinks), that was one of the films in the top-box office in Japan last year. It’s a Japanese super production that mixes a horrible love history with Hollywood style special effects showing how earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis destroy Japan. The film starts showing a scientist that discovers how [...]
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