Shaviro at The Pinocchio Theory has posted an entry about the movie Swallowtail Butterfly directed by Iwai Shunji. The movie is one of my favorites for a number of reasons. It is, as Shaviro notes, a multi-lingual and multi-ethnic movie set in Japan (Yen town) and it is full of ambiguous identities. Shaviro concludes with, [...]
While I was back in the US, I went to see the “Last Samurai” and have been promising my family that I would share some of my thoughts on the movie here. There has been a flurry of mails going back and forth on the H-Japan discussion list about the movie so I had read [...]
I rented some movies to watch while staying warm under a blanket and recovering from a nasty cold. None were any good so I cut them all off soon after they started but by chance I saw that Japanese TV was showing a US movie without dubbing it (for once). It was “The Way of [...]
Sayaka and I went to see Terminator 3 on the recommendation of two of our friends. It was pretty much what I expected. After the movie Sayaka had an interesting idea for a Terminator 4 (which the movie sets up nicely) which amounts to a rather unusual twist on the cult success Left Behind which [...]