Archive for November, 2008

  • Yellow canaries. Yellow canaries floating down. Down down. Singing as they twirl. Down down.

    Falling

    Posted on November 7, 2008 | No Comments
    Yellow canaries. Yellow canaries floating down. Down down. Singing as they twirl. Down down.

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  • Fall is sure upon us with colder crisp air, lovely, colourful, autumn leaves, and days getting shorter.  Bundle up and enjoy the season. One of my golf friends invited me...

    5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

    Posted on November 7, 2008 | 6 Comments
    Fall is sure upon us with colder crisp air, lovely, colourful, autumn leaves, and days getting shorter.  Bundle up and enjoy the season. One of my golf friends invited me...

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  • Tetsuro Shigematsu has the face of a Japanese woodblock print samurai and the résumé of a modern day renaissance man. A radio broadcaster, comedian, pop culture critic, filmmaker, playwright and...

    Tetsuro Shigematsu : renaissance samurai

    Posted on November 7, 2008 | No Comments
    Tetsuro Shigematsu has the face of a Japanese woodblock print samurai and the résumé of a modern day renaissance man. A radio broadcaster, comedian, pop culture critic, filmmaker, playwright and...

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  • Serving up a Tasty Pan-Asian smorgasbord November 6 – 9, 2008 Now in its twelfth year, the Vancouver Asian Film Festival has established itself as a vehicle for promoting and...

    Vancouver Asian Film Festival

    Posted on November 7, 2008 | No Comments
    Serving up a Tasty Pan-Asian smorgasbord November 6 – 9, 2008 Now in its twelfth year, the Vancouver Asian Film Festival has established itself as a vehicle for promoting and...

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  • Director Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s long-awaited return is an absolute triumph, expertly veering between emotional extremes. All Around Us follows the tumultuous early years of marriage between the tightly wound Shoko (Tae Kimura) and the emotionally adolescent Kanao (Lily Franky). The loss of a baby reveals the underlying frailties of their relationship, and Hashiguchi’s patient portrayal creates characters that the audience comes to truly care for.

    InReview : VIFF

    Posted on November 6, 2008 | No Comments
    Director Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s long-awaited return is an absolute triumph, expertly veering between emotional extremes. All Around Us follows the tumultuous early years of marriage between the tightly wound Shoko (Tae Kimura) and the emotionally adolescent Kanao (Lily Franky). The loss of a baby reveals the underlying frailties of their relationship, and Hashiguchi’s patient portrayal creates characters that the audience comes to truly care for.

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  • In general, there is a tendency among both male and female youth to avoid developing deep relations with others. In the film, [Makoto] doesn’t want a proper “boyfriend-girlfriend” or “husband-wife” relationship and chooses to be with a married man who cannot become her “boyfriend.” It is therefore a relationship of convenience for Makoto.

    Killing time with married men

    Posted on November 6, 2008 | No Comments
    In general, there is a tendency among both male and female youth to avoid developing deep relations with others. In the film, [Makoto] doesn’t want a proper “boyfriend-girlfriend” or “husband-wife” relationship and chooses to be with a married man who cannot become her “boyfriend.” It is therefore a relationship of convenience for Makoto.

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  • Hi everyone! First I would like to apologize to everyone who already purchased a ticket for our planned Halloween Dance that was to happen on November 1 at Nikkei Place....

    President’s Message

    Posted on November 6, 2008 | No Comments
    Hi everyone! First I would like to apologize to everyone who already purchased a ticket for our planned Halloween Dance that was to happen on November 1 at Nikkei Place....

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  • To feel as though all of these different categories of people making up the Nikkei/ijusha community are somehow “all connected” is, I’ve realized, a rather Japanese sentiment. Among the oft-cited differences between the East and West, the one about the former being group-based societies and the latter individual-based societies is hard to refute, even if it’s very generalized.

    Group-to-Group vs Individual-to-Individual

    Posted on November 6, 2008 | No Comments
    To feel as though all of these different categories of people making up the Nikkei/ijusha community are somehow “all connected” is, I’ve realized, a rather Japanese sentiment. Among the oft-cited differences between the East and West, the one about the former being group-based societies and the latter individual-based societies is hard to refute, even if it’s very generalized.

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