Wondering why I haven’t been posting anything? It’s because I’ve been traveling around Japan for the past two weeks. This means no posting right now, but many many posts to come soon! If you really can’t wait to see what I am doing with my time, then meander over to my Twitter…I post photos on [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Where ya’ been, yo?
Posted in Ramblings on March 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
5 Things I Want to See in ‘The Pacific’
Posted in Book Reviews, Film Reviews, HBO's The Pacific, Japan, tagged Guadalcanal, HBO, HBO's The Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow, Okinawa, Peleliu, Steven Spielberg, The Pacific, toms hanks, war, With the Old Breed, World War II, WWII on March 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
5. An accurate depiction of battle, of course. Unfortunately, film can only go so far when it comes to recreating battle. One of the most important features of the battlefield that is absent in film is the smell. Movies cannot show us what the smell of rotting flesh, discarded food, gunpowder, spent artillery, and burnt [...]
HBO’s THE PACIFIC
Posted in Book Reviews, Film Reviews, HBO's The Pacific, Japan, Japanese History, tagged Band of Brothers, Eagle Against the Sun, Eugene Sledge, HBO's The Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow, Japan, Japanese history, military, Pacific theater, Robert Leckie, Ronal Spector, Steven Spielberg, The Pacific, Tom Hanks, war, With the Old Breed, World War II, WWII on March 16, 2010 | 13 Comments »
It only takes the opening theme of Band of Brothers to make me cry. Now, I can add The Pacific to that list. I am not embarrassed to admit this, because anyone who is not brought close to tears when they think about World War II is guilty of either the grossest ignorance or the [...]
Book Review: W.G. Beasley’s JAPANESE IMPERIALISM 1894-1945
Posted in Book Reviews, Japan, Japanese History, tagged beasley, Book Reviews, history, imperialism, Japan, Japanese history, konoe on March 14, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945 Review In the space of 50 years, Japan built an empire that stretched from northern Manchurian down to the tip of Australia. Though its existence proved ephemeral, this was a staggering accomplishment for an island nation that had remained largely (though not completely) disconnected from the Western world until the mid-19th century [...]
Japanese Film Review #16: Muroga Atsushi’s JUNK: SHIRYO-GARI (2000)
Posted in Film Reviews, Japanese Film Reviews, tagged film review, J-horror, Japan, zombies on March 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Presumably set in Okinawa, Shiryo-gari (written and directed by Muroga Atsushi) is about an American military experiment on dead bodies that predictably results in a zombie outbreak. The hapless American soldiers enlist the help of Dr. Nakada (played by Kishimoto Yuji), a Japanese scientist who was involved in the original research, to help bring the [...]
And now for a brief moment of indulgent self-reflection…
Posted in Ramblings, tagged constantineintokyo, Ramblings on March 8, 2010 | 24 Comments »
I believe that the most difficult truth we must accept in our lives is that everything – the world, people, ourselves – changes. It seems redundant to state such a fact because of its obvious truth. Of course everything changes. Yet, like most important truths, the inevitability of change is both very easy to acknowledge [...]
Japanese Film Review #15: Shiraishi Koji’s DEAD GIRL WALKING (2004)
Posted in Film Reviews, Japan, Japanese Film Reviews, tagged dead girl walking, J-horror, Japan, japanese film, shiraishi koji, zombie on March 4, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Dead Girl Walking is one of six segments of a made-for-TV series called ‘Hino Theater of Horror,’ all adapted from the works of manga artist Hino Hideshi. Hino Hideshi dreams up pretty dark ideas for his manga and he ranks just below Junji Ito as one of the most important Japanese horror-gore manga artists. Yuri [...]
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