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Young Jackie Chan…and samurais everywhere — Highlights from the Cinerama Fists & Fury martial arts festival

March 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “I don’t think that was Jackie Chan,” I told my movie date, as the lights went up at the end of “Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow.” And I owe her an apology, because it actually was Jackie Chan, who was of course good enough at playing himself that I […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2015, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, Great Recession, Harold Lloyd, Kyuzo Seiji Miyaguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seven Samurai, Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20, Young Jackie Chan, attention

Fists & Fury — Martial arts festival comes to the Cinerama

March 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The Seattle Cinerama Theater, owned and operated by Paul Allen, presents its first-ever martial arts film festival, “Fists & Fury,” from February 27 to March 5th, featuring, amongst other attractions, several films from Seattle legend Bruce Lee.  Greg Wood, the Cinerama’s Director of Operations, took some questions over email. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2009, 2015, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, Asian Pacific American Experience, Bruce Lee, Fist Fury, Fists Fury Martial, Greg Wood Although Cinerama, Greg Wood Twenty, Hong Kong Film Awards, Ip Man, Kung Fu Hustle, NWAW, Vol 34 No 10 | February 28 - March 6, language, technology

Respect!: Celebrating Seven Samurai’s 60th anniversary

November 28, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ninette Cheng Northwest Asian Weekly On December 4, Seattle will be hosting a film screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai for its 60th anniversary.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, Akira Kurosawa, Criterion Collection, Ken Lee, Lesson Learned, Michael Weise, Michael Wiese Productions, New York Poets Theatre Company, Ninette Cheng, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle Film Institute, Seven Samurai, Vol 33 No 49 | November 29 - December 5

Japan’s World War II film idol Rikoran dies at 94

September 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese film idol Yoshiko Yamaguchi, who was known as Rikoran and symbolized Japan’s wartime dreams of Asian conquest, has died at age 94. Known as Shirley Yamaguchi in the United States and one of the biggest Japanese film stars during and after World War II, Yamaguchi died […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Akira Kurosawa, Asia, China, Chinese, Fragrant Orchid, Hiroshi Ohtaka, Japanese American, Japanese-run Manchurian Cinema Association, Myanmar, Pu Yi, Seijun Suzuki, United States, Upper House, Vol 33 No 39 | September 20 - September 26, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Yue Lai Xiang

Suzuki’s “K Missing Kings” elevates anime; “Love Child” documents tragedy

July 25, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “K Missing Kings,” an anime directed by Shingo Suzuki and coming to the Grand Illusion Cinema August 1st, begins in

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2010, 2014, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, Blade Runner, Cosette Rae, Grand Illusion Cinema August, HBO, Internet Addiction Disorder, John Legere, Love Child, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Shingo Suzuki, Tokyo, Valerie Veatch, Vol 33 No 31 | July 26 - August 1

“Rashomon”

November 1, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly If you need me to tell you that there is no answer, as director Akira Kurosawa once said of his masterpiece, “Rashomon,” then I am telling you: There is no answer. Such a question would not come up these days of course; “Rashomon,” first released in 1950 and newly […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2013, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, Noriko Honma, Northwest Asian Weekly, Vol 32 No 45 | November 2 - November 8

Finishing ‘Eleven Samurai’

May 10, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Director Eiichi Kudo’s “Eleven Samurai” (1966) completes his gritty, visually rich samurai trilogy. It features elements derived from the two earlier films, “13 Assassins” (1963) and “The Great Killing” (1964), but introduces additional elements, making the film worthy of its brethren.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, At the Movies Tagged With: 13 Assassins, 2013, Actor Nishimura, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, DVD, Director Eiichi Kudo, Eleven Samurai, Great Killing, Kaneo Ikegami, Kantaro Suga, Kei Tasaka, Lord Nariatsu, Noribumi Suzuki, Northwest Asian Weekly, Takeo Kunihiro, Vol 32 No 20 | May 11 - May 17

Following the ‘13 Assassins’

April 26, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly When director Eiichi Kudo went into pre-production for his 1963 samurai film “13 Assassins,” he had no way of knowing that he would help pioneer a new age in samurai cinema.  Kudo worked with screenwriter Kaneo Ikegami, who’d written another film, “Seventeen Ninja,” released earlier that same year, and […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 13 Assassins, 2010, 2013, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, DVD, Eiichi Kudo, Eleven Samurai, Jubei Suzuki, Kinema Jumpo Japanese, Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, North America, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seventeen Ninja, Shinzaemon Chiezo Kataoka, Shudan Jidaigeki, Vol 32 No 18 | April 27 - May 3

Telling a “Tokyo Story”

September 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly When the British Film Institute’s prestigious monthly magazine Sight & Sound published the new results of its once-a-decade poll for the title of greatest movie ever, the big news was that Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” had dethroned Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” in the poll of film critics — the first […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2012, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Hamlin, British Film Institute, Chishu Riyu, Grand Illusion Cinema, Kogo Noda, Northwest Asian Weekly, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Roger Ebert, Seattle, Sight Sound, Tokyo Story, University District, Vol 31 No 39 | September 22 - September 28, Yasujir Ozu

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