I`ll chine in with a couple of recommendations too:  The Road
to Sata by the late Alan Booth--fantastic book and will give you
great insight into Japanese people.  Anything by Reishauer the former
American ambassador to Japan.

Kevin
http://www.how-to-teach-english-in-japan.com

- In japan_kfss@yahoogroups.com, "Miriam Solon" <screaminmimi@...> wrote:
>
> Sorry for posting this as a special notice, but I need to find out
> who's still out there and interested. If this provokes a wave of
> unsubscribes, I'm not concerned about that.
>
> I just finished reading "The Strangeness of Beauty" by Lydia Minatoya.
> I'm usually wary of fiction set in Japan written by Americans, even
> Japanese Americans, but this book is a beautiful meditation on what it
> meant to be Japanese in the first third of the 20th century, from the
> point of view of an issei who returns to Japan after a dozen years in
> Seattle.
>
> Minatoya works every angle and makes this a study in history as it
> affected everyday people, comparative ethnography, and comparative
> literature without once losing the reader in academia. It's all in the
> details, such as revelations about little-known social taboos; and in
> the larger themes, such as domestic resistance to Showa Japan's
> growing militarism.
>
> If you've ever been baffled by Japanese customs and weren't even sure
> of what you were seeing, much less what to ask, this book will give
> you a lot of insights.
>

Sorry for posting this as a special notice, but I need to find out
who's still out there and interested. If this provokes a wave of
unsubscribes, I'm not concerned about that.

I just finished reading "The Strangeness of Beauty" by Lydia Minatoya.
I'm usually wary of fiction set in Japan written by Americans, even
Japanese Americans, but this book is a beautiful meditation on what it
meant to be Japanese in the first third of the 20th century, from the
point of view of an issei who returns to Japan after a dozen years in
Seattle.

Minatoya works every angle and makes this a study in history as it
affected everyday people, comparative ethnography, and comparative
literature without once losing the reader in academia. It's all in the
details, such as revelations about little-known social taboos; and in
the larger themes, such as domestic resistance to Showa Japan's
growing militarism.

If you've ever been baffled by Japanese customs and weren't even sure
of what you were seeing, much less what to ask, this book will give
you a lot of insights.

This is barely on-topic... Please remember this is an international
discussion group devoted to Japanese culture. Brent's event is taking place
in Chicago. Since it's karaoke... it *just* is topical.

moderator

Original Message:
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From: Brent Rolland brent.rolland@...
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:46:15 -0500
To: brent.rolland@...
Subject: [japan_kfss] Brent Hosts Fundraiser @ The Spot on Wednesday!


Greetings, everyone!

I will be hosting an exciting karaoke competition tomorrow (10/8) at The
Spot (4437 N. Broadway St; map and info below) from 6pm–9pm. The event is to
support the upcoming film, "Reginald," directed and produced by my friend
and blossoming independent filmmaker, Joseph Martinez. Tickets are $30.00 at
the door, and there will be food and copious drinks available. There will be
a silent auction for fantastic prizes as well!

I cordially invite you to this fun event for a great cause. Hope to see you
there!

– Brent



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Hi

Anyone want to takeover running this group?

I am no longer able to do so.

regards

RouX

Hi guys, Hi, I am selling this item on eBay and thought you might be
interested...

Takeshi Kitano used to run his indian style curry restaurants,
called "Kitano Indo Kaisha" in several places in Japan untill 2001.
The
drink glass and other items were sold only at the restaurant at that
time. As The business had been run for few years only then closed,
this
item is not availavle anymore.

The drink grass is beautifully well made with thick grass, unused and
new with the box also with Indian style costumed Takeshi Kitano
charactor illustration on it.

This is very rare item and the must have item for Takeshi Kitano fan.

TAKESHI KITANO Restaurant Glass Deadstock Very Rare!

Item number: 180261981703

Search with the number.

The Brattle Film Foundation (BFF), the non-profit organization that
programs and operates the Brattle Theatre, is thrilled to announce
their new film series, No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action & 60s
Japan, running from Friday, April 18th through Thursday, April 24th,
2008.

The label said it all: "Nikkatsu akushon!" Nikkatsu was a Japanese
film studio that had been around since the silent days and akushon
meant "action," written in the katakana syllabary for foreign words.
During their peak in the late 1950s and 1960s, Nikkatsu Action films
evoked a cinematic world neither foreign nor Japanese. It was a mix
of the two, where Japanese tough guys had the swagger, moves, and
even the long legs of Hollywood movie heroes. It was a place where
the Tokyo streets, Yokohama docks, and Hokkaido hills took on an
exciting, exotic aura, as though they were stand-ins for Manhattan,
Marseilles, or even the American West. Where one guy with guts,
smarts, and a pair of quick fists could beat a whole gang of baddies.
One of the most famous progeny of the Nikkatsu Action moment is the
idiosyncratic and colorful director Seijun Suzuki whose bizarre
yakuza tales Branded To Kill and Tokyo Drifter have made him a cult
hero in the US.

In a celebration of these rare and overlooked gems of international B-
movie-making, curators Outcast Cinema have put together a series that
runs the gamut from strange, New Wave-ish youth films to yakuza
epics, and even includes a real Eastern-Western! Eschewing the more
well known Suzuki, Outcast has assembled an exemplary and exciting
batch of films from some of the most outrageous directors and stars
that you've never heard of!

As a complement to the special prints from Nikkatsu, the Brattle is
presenting a brief selection of other films being produced in Japan
in the 1960s… because what would a Japanese action series be without
a Tokyo-terrorizing monster and a samurai or two? Or three?

The lineup features five of the best and most bizarre movies from the
infamous Nikkatsu studio, none of which are available on video in the
US:

A COLT IS MY PASSPORT (1967) A noir-ish thriller, where a hit man and
his buddy whack a prominent gang boss. Deadly complications ensue!

PLAINS WANDERER (1960) Akira Kobayashi plays a traveler on Japan's
back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero – from a
horse to fringes, to a guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.

RED HANDKERCHIEF (1964) Kind of like a Japanese C.S.I. episode, a
disgraced former detective revisits a years-old case to resolve his
doubts about not only his own actions, but the true motives of his
former partner.

VELVET HUSTLER (aka LIKE A SHOOTING STAR) (1967) Velvet Hustler stars
Tesuya Watari as Goro, a Tokyo hitman who likes his women like he
likes his cars: fast and dangerous.  Lookout!

THE WARPED ONES (1960) A frantic, black-and-white portrait of youth
culture gone wild. Two ex-cons and their prostitute friend go
completely off the deep end in this stylistic and amoral high-point
of 60s cinema.

DVD SCREENERS W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES ARE AVAILABLE BY REQUEST

The series also includes these other Japanese classics:

BLACK ROSE MANSION (1969) A wealthy playboy installs songbird "Black
Rose" in his elegant private men's club to bolster business - but he
gets more than he bargains for… A feverishly perverse, campy and
baroque freak-out.

DEATH BY HANGING (1968) A bleakly black comedy; a criminal is
sentenced to be hanged but mysteriously survives and, as the guards
and officials present soon find out, has lost all memory of his
crime, trial and eventual fate.  Not on video!

HIGH AND LOW (1963) Akira Kurosawa, the seminal Japanese director,
takes us from the spacious hillside apartment of a hotshot Tokyo
businessman, to the lower depths of the city in this neo-noir
thriller.

MOTHRA (1961) Sort of a trippy version of King Kong, featuring a pair
of foot high singing divas whose song is a telepathic call for help
to their island goddess, the gigantic moth creature, MOTHRA.

THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI (1964) A wandering samurai is swayed into
helping some starving farmers who have kidnapped a local lord's
daughter in protest over unfair taxes. In the process, much blood is,
of course, shed.

WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964) A disquieting examination of power and
sexuality fueled by stunning visual imagery. An entomologist stays
overnight in a small town, only to awaken the next morning to find
himself trapped by encroaching sand dunes. An essential big-screen
experience.

  NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS will kick off at the Brattle Theatre on
Friday, April 18th, and continue until Thursday, April 24th.  The
Brattle Theatre is located at 40 Brattle Street, in the heart of
Harvard Square. Tickets are $9.50, $7.50 for students and $6.50 for
seniors.

To learn more about NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS, visit the official Brattle
website at http://www.brattlefilm.org, email info@... or
call the Brattle Film Foundation office at (617) 876-8021.

Hi Superstars!

TRADE OR SELL YOUR HONG MOVIES, OR MARTIAL ARTS EQUIPMENT AT OUR
PARTNER SITE - THE KUNG FU SUPERSTARS COLLECTORS CLUB!

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Join as a member of CollectZing.com then add KFSS as your first
collector's club.

No bootlegs please, just quality items our members will be proud to own.

Businesses welcome to join too!

See you there!


Buddha bless you, Dudes!

RouX <aka: tim - owner KFSS>

Tickets for the upcoming Bunraku performance at Northwestern University (in
Evanston, Illinois, USA) are now available online from TICKETWEB.

To place an order visit the following website -

<http://www.ticketweb.com/user?region=chicago&query=schedule&venue=cahn>

For more information on the 2007 Bunraku Midwest tour please visit

<http://bunrakumidwest.com/>

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For anime connoisseurs, beginners, and the simply curious, the best
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August 30, 2007 (Berkeley, CA) – With extended reviews of 100
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About the authors:

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contributor to Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly, and has taught on
anime at New York's School of Visual Arts.

JULIE DAVIS is the former editor-in-chief of Animerica: Anime & Manga
Monthly. She is currently a writer and editor in San Francisco.

oohh, this sends chills up my spine. I didn't see this troupe, but I
did see another in Tokyo at Kamegaoka Hachimangu Shrine in Ichigaya:
Suenobu Togi-sensei and his students. There was only one dancer. This
press release doesn't make it clear how many dancers there will be
performing in Milwaukee. I wonder how they'll set up the space. The way
the jinja was lit was just as important as the sound and movement. It
was very dim, but warm, lighting, perfect for trancing. Also, there
wasn't a lot of talk once the performance started, just some
introductory remarks and instructions as to how to behave in a jinja,
beforehand. There was a tiny amount of gagaku music at Higashi Honganji
for Shinran's memorial, but it was not the same setup. It was more
processional music as they moved a statue of Shinran from the Goei-do
to the Amida-do prior to closing the former for major restoration work.

Gagaku has an eerie sound, not like anything a Westerner might think of
as music. It almost sounds like a random assemblage of noises, but it
is scored, and it produces a much different sort of listening
experience from that of a concert of Western music for the listener who
approaches it with an open mind.

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Burmeister, Ellen" <Burmeister@...>
Date: Thu Sep 6, 2007  23:45:31 America/Chicago
To: "Burmeister, Ellen" <Burmeister@...>
Subject: Japanese Gagaku Orchestra to Perform Unique Mix of Musical and
Buddhist Tradition at Milwaukee Public Museum

MEDIA INQUIRIES

Ellen Burmeister: (414) 278-6199 or (414) 530-8676     
Japanese Gagaku Orchestra Plays First Wisconsin Concert at MPM

The Milwaukee Public Museum will welcome theDaihonzan Zojo-ji Temple
Gagaku Orchestra in their premiere Wisconsin appearances on Friday,
October 5, 2007. They will perform at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. at MPM’s
Gromme Hall. The afternoon appearance is free of charge; the evening
performance is $10, $7 seniors and children.

The Zojo-ji Temple of Tokyo is one of the most popular destinations for
tourists to Japan. It is the main temple of the Jodo Shu (Pure Land)
sect of Buddhism. TheDaihonzan Zojo-ji Temple Gagaku Orchestra was
established in 1937 at Zoji-ji,to perform at the annual ceremonies
marking the death of Honen Shonin, a very important teacher in the Pure
Land Buddhist Tradition. In 1980 they began traveling the world to play
in China, India, Taiwan, Denmark, Germany and the United States.

The Orchestra will play the togaku style of gagaku music,1,200 year-old
genre derived from the Chinese court music of the T’ang Dynasty and
later introduced to Japan,where it was incorporated into Japanese
Imperial court ceremonies. Performing this slow, elegant music on
flutes, percussion, and string instruments,they will play an
instrumental style called kangen, a dance/instrumental style called
bugaku and a recital/poetic style called roei (based on Chinese poems).
The orchestra will include 16 musicians and dancers.

Please call (414) 278-2728 to register for the free afternoon matinee,
or to purchase tickets for the evening performance. Tickets can also be
purchased online at www.mpm.edu.

This performance marks the first of two Japanese cultural events slated
at the Milwaukee Public Museum this fall. The other is a homecoming
celebration and exhibit of the Museum’s newly restored Friendship Doll,
Miss Ibaraki, which is being planned for November.

You are invited to attend a free screening of the anime film Hotaru no
Haka, Grave of the Fireflies, in Japanese with English subtitles
Sunday September 9th at 5:00 pm
at the National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St. Chicago, IL 60608

   Anime DVDs and Mangas will be raffled after the event.

   For more information visit www.wrte.org


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The University of Illinois, Northwestern University, The Consulate
General of Japan at Chicago, The City of Osaka Chicago Office, and
Japan House (UIUC) are pleased to announce that Bunraku, one of
Japan's best known and most highly prized traditional performing arts,
will come to the Midwest in October. The internationally-acclaimed
National Bunraku Theatre - the most
authentic puppet troupe from Osaka - will come to America for its
first major tour in 15 years. For the Midwest, it will appear on stage
for the first time ever.

For ticket and general information on the Bunraku performances please
visit the following website - <http://bunrakumidwest.com/>

The press release for this event is located here -
<http://bunrakumidwest.com/images/Bunraku_Press_Release.pdf>

Lots of things going on here:

Buddhist Temple of Chicago minyo dancers will be at the National Night
Out anti-violence rally Tues, Aug. 7 6pm come out and dance with us.
Wilson & Sheridan with procession a few blocks to Clarendon Park.

Buddhist Temple of Chicago Bon Odori, Sat. Aug 11, 7:30 pm
see http://www.budtempchi.org/bonodori.html
all welcome to dance and/or observe.

Kokyo Taiko at Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, IL
Sat. Aug 18 & Sun. Aug 19 noon

I should have clarified, I don't want to pay full price for it. I know
it's available retail. I'm looking for a swap or discount or a gift,
even. (I can dream, can't I?)

--- In japan_kfss@yahoogroups.com, "Miriam Solon" <screaminmimi@...>
wrote:
>
> I am looking for the NHK seven-part series "Semishigure." It doesn't
> matter to me whether it has English subtitles or not. I have seen the
> first five episodes over and over and over again. I think I have the
> dialog memorized, and I'm at a cliff hanger. Please put me out of my
> misery. I don't need to know the plot synopsis. NHK has graciously
> provided that online. I just want the actual show. Used is okay, as
> long as it plays properly.
>
> thanks
>

I am looking for the NHK seven-part series "Semishigure." It doesn't
matter to me whether it has English subtitles or not. I have seen the
first five episodes over and over and over again. I think I have the
dialog memorized, and I'm at a cliff hanger. Please put me out of my
misery. I don't need to know the plot synopsis. NHK has graciously
provided that online. I just want the actual show. Used is okay, as
long as it plays properly.

thanks

I want to let you all know in advance that for the first time NY is
having the New York Anime Festival in December, I am posting the link.

http://www.nyanimefestival.com

Steven
From New York

I am looking for this movie  Reiko the physkick girl Posting photo in
pic section. I am also looking for Brave Raideen

Steven

Here is the link to the DVD $9.99US at YesAsia

http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/code-c/section-videos/pid-
1001825106/

--- In japan_kfss@yahoogroups.com, Cai Saman <kadaju_kun@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you!!!!!
>   Do you know where I can find the movie?
>
> highimpact1979 <highimpact1979@...> wrote:
>           Hi there,
> The movie is 2002, a Hong Kong film that stars Nicholas Tse as the
> human cop and first it was Sam Lee as the ghost cop, but when he
> disappears, he finds another human partner in Stephen Fung. Their
> mission is to stop The Fire Ghost (Anya) and Water Ghost (Oympic
> swimmer turned actor Alex Fong Lik-Sun in his film debut).
>
> Has one of my all time favorite Nicholas Tse songs "Let Me Die"
> written by Tse and Fung.
>
> --- In japan_kfss@yahoogroups.com, "kadaju_kun" <kadaju_kun@> wrote:
> >
> > I watched a movie something like 6 years ago and I don't know the
> > movies name so I want to watch it again but because I don't know
the
> > name I cant find it. Please help.
> > The movie is about a police unit that fights ghost criminals and
the
> > unit is supposed to be 2 people one alive and the other a ghost
but
> in
> > the end it was two alive people I think it was something like
that.
> And
> > I think the unit name was something like 2000 or 2002?
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Writing in the Asian Reporter, Patrick Galloway, author of popular film
guidebooks 'Asia Shock' and 'Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves,' recently
weighed in on the wonderful selection of new Asian films at the 2007
San Francisco International Film Festival, the longest running
international film fest in the US!

'SFIFF shows vitality, variety of Asian film'
http://www.asianreporter.com/film/2007/21-07sfiff.htm

Asia Shock
http://www.stonebridge.com/AsiaShock/AsiaShock.html

Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves
http://www.stonebridge.com/STRAYDOGS/straydogs.html

--- In japan_kfss@yahoogroups.com, "kadaju_kun" <kadaju_kun@...> wrote:
>
> I watched a movie something like 6 years ago... but because I don't
> know the name I cant find it...
> The movie is about a police unit that fights ghost criminals...

I tried searching on some of your keywords in imdb.com but didn't come
up with much that would nail this down. Was it live action or an
anime? When you saw it was it in Japanese or English (dubbed,
subtitles)? Did it come out 6 years ago or had it already been out for
a while when you saw it? Since you're the one who saw it, you may want
to do your own keyword search on imdb.com and see what happens.

Good luck and let us know if you figure it out. Sounds like it could
be fun.

miriam

Hi there,
The movie is 2002, a Hong Kong film that stars Nicholas Tse as the
human cop and first it was Sam Lee as the ghost cop, but when he
disappears, he finds another human partner in Stephen Fung. Their
mission is to stop The Fire Ghost (Anya) and Water Ghost (Oympic
swimmer turned actor Alex Fong Lik-Sun in his film debut).

Has one of my all time favorite Nicholas Tse songs "Let Me Die"
written by Tse and Fung.

--- In japan_kfss@yahoogroups.com, "kadaju_kun" <kadaju_kun@...> wrote:
>
> I watched a movie something like 6 years ago and I don't know the
> movies name so I want to watch it again but because I don't know the
> name I cant find it. Please help.
> The movie is about a police unit that fights ghost criminals and the
> unit is supposed to be 2 people one alive and the other a ghost but
in
> the end it was two alive people I think it was something like that.
And
> I think the unit name was something like 2000 or 2002?
>

Media-Blasters is releasing Frankenstein Conquers The World this was a
Toho Production. The Trailer can be seen at the website.

http://www.media-blasters.com/main.html


Steven

The first one is a show called SPT Layzner & Shurato does any one know
how I can get ahold of these two animes. I will post the pics in the
photos section.


Steven
From Spring Valley NY
USA

--- In japan_kfss@yahoogroups.com, "branhacc" <ccbranham@...> wrote:
>
> Hello. I'm new to the Japanese media and cinema available to
> English-speaking audiences, and am looking for some recommendations
> for good Manga series and films with/in English....
>
> So in general, I like the heroic tales, but I appreciate realism and
> complexity in characters most of all, and whatever is finely crafted...

Wow, I have no idea how this message went unheeded. Sorry.

I'm a big fan of live action film, not to slight anime, I like a lot
of that too. There is so much available right now in J movies of all
kinds. I tend to favor the more satirical, nihilistic or dystopian
anime. "Ranma 1/2" and "Lain" are a couple of my favorite series. But
I'll watch anything in Japanese to get ear time in with the language.

My all-time favorite movie is "Rampo" (1994 with Naoto Takenaka and
Michiko Hada). It's disturbing as hell and really beautiful. As far as
directors go, I'm very fond of Hirokazu Koreeda's work... and it's not
ALL depressing. The most recent one is a comedy, actually.

I think a lot of the best Japanese movies from all eras are based on
Shugoro Yamamoto's novels. He may be the Japanese novelist who's had
the most movie adaptations. He was like the John Steinbeck/Charles
Dickens of Japan. His characters are the working stiffs, the little
guys, and not at all sentimentalized. IMDB lists 21. JMDB lists 32
http://imdb.com/name/nm0945491/
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0150290.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamamoto_Shugoro

My natural preference is to look at subtitled work, as opposed to
dubbed in English. What are you looking for in that regard? I can
understand why some people need and/or prefer dubbed things.
Miyazaki's more recent stuff has some pretty good dubbing voices, but
I tend to avoid that like the plague.

Sometimes subtitles can be a little offputting too, but I'd much
rather hear the original language for intonation and other nuance,
even if I can't understand it. Very few dubbing artists can really
capture the energy of the original. Good subtitles can. The best
subtitles leave you thinking the original actor was speaking English.

hope this helps.

miriam