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Sakura-Con costumed invaders land in downtown Seattle!

April 24, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By John Liu Northwest Asian Weekly Super Mario was jumping around Seattle downtown and yes, Batman was eating at Subway among thousands of interesting and strange characters flooding last weekend.<!–more–> Sakura-Con estimates more than 20,000 people attended this year’s conference on April 18 through April 20 at the Washington State Convention Center. This is the […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Baby Boomers, Blood Moon Akali, Chinatown Parade, Chinatown Seafair Parade, Chun Li, Exhibition Hall, Hayao Miyazaki, Jann Lee, North American, Northwest Asian Weekly, Princess Mononoke, Seattle, Spirited Away, Street Fighters Cammy, Super Mario, Vol 33 No 18 | April 26 - May 2, Washington State Convention Center

“The Wind Rises”

March 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Master animator and director Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and the man who introduced anime features in America, has declared that “The Wind Rises,” a fictionalized biography of airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi, will be his last film. It is also his first and only film not explicitly directed […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2014, Academy Award, Andrew Hamlin, Best Animated Feature, Caproni Stanley Tucci, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Great Kanto Earthquake, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, Jiro Japanese Boy, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Studio Ghibli, United States, Vol 33 No 13 | March 22 - March 28, Walt Disney Pictures

A-pop! A scrappy end to 2013 — Out with the old, in with the new, and more wins!

January 17, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Happy New Year, dear readers! 2014 is here, and while I’m all for ushering in the New Year, I want to take a moment to wrap up entertainment news from 2013. Let’s look back into the vestiges of last year before we tackle this year, shall we? Questlove thinks […]

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Bruno Mars Photo, Catch Mars, Chinese, Dawn Englehart, Golden Globes Foreign Language Film, Happy New Year, Hayao Miyazaki, Musician Questlove, Northwest Asian Weekly, Padma Lakshmi, Sour Tlain, Tessanne Chin, Though Miyazaki, Vol 33 No 4 | January 18 - January 24, japan

A-pop! Top 10 stories of 2013 — Take one final look at the best, and the best of the worst, of last year’s Asian pop media moments

January 2, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly With the New Year underway, it’s the perfect time to take a moment and reflect on 2013’s biggest hits and misses in pop culture. It’s been an interesting year, which saw Asian Americans breaking ground in new ways in pop media, as well as some spectacularly offensive moments from […]

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Academy Awards, Asian Americans, Better Luck Tomorrow, Chinese Food, Fast Furious, Google Glass, Hayao Miyazaki, Katy Perry, Kristen Kish, Miss America Nina Davuluri, Roger Ebert, Top Chef, Vol 33 No 2 | January 4 - January 10, culture

Two classics make their Blu-ray debuts

August 30, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “Enter The Dragon” The young man was only 32 when he died. He’d been born in San Francisco and lived in Oakland, Hong Kong, and elsewhere, but his family chose to have him buried in Seattle, where he’d attended school and worked for Ruby Chow as a waiter. His […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2013, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, George Lazenby, Hayao Miyazaki, Hong Kong, Jackie Chan, James Coburn, Jim Kelly, John Saxon, Northwest Asian Weekly, Robert Clouse, Seattle, Shih Kien, Tatsuo Shigesato Itoi Tim Daly, Vol 32 No 36 | August 31 - September 6, Warner Home Video

Bright lights and twilight, a film review of “From Up On Poppy Hill”

April 5, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Rating:  “From Up On Poppy Hill” is the second anime feature from Goro Miyazaki, son of the famed anime master Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghilbi fame. The film proves a substantial improvement over his first feature, “Tales from Earthsea” (a film I actually liked), and a story impressive for […]

Filed Under: Reviews, At the Movies Tagged With: Andrew Hamlin, Capitol Hill, Egyptian Theatre, Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Takeshita Gillian Anderson, Latin Quarter, Olympic Games, Olympics, Seattle, Sixteen-year-old Umi Matsuzaki, Tokyo, WWII, japan

“The Secret World Of Arrietty”

November 16, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Studio Ghibli, founded in 1985 by anime directors Hayao Miyazaki

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, At the Movies Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Aunt Jessica, Bridgit Mendler, Disney-produced English-language, Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Mary Norton, Northwest Asian Weekly, Studio Ghibli, Vol 31 No 47 | November 17 - November 23

SIFF celebrates Studio Ghibli in “Castles in the Sky” series

June 22, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly In 1985, Japanese anime directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata joined forces to create a new studio for anime films. The studio’s name, Studio Ghibli, was named after an Arabic word meaning “Mediterranean wind,” with the hope that their works would blow a new wind through the world of […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Delivery Service, FID, Hayao Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Morita, Isao Takahata, Northwest Asian Weekly, Ocean Waves, Pom Poko, Queen Anne Avenue North, SIFF, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli, Tomomi Mochizuki, United States, Vol 31 No 26 | June 23 - June 29, Yoshifumi Kondo

The 10 best Asian films of the year

December 22, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

2010 gave us great Asian and Asian-related films from, quite literally, all over the map. Look for the following at your local well-stocked video store:

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2010, 2011, Andrew Hamlin, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, China, Chinese New Year, Dalai Lama, Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki, Issey Ogata, Jeonju Digital Project, Joan Chen, Lixin Fan, Northwest Asian Weekly, Sang-soo Hong, South Korean, Vol 29 No 52 | December 25 - December 31, Year in Review 2010, japan

Goro Miyazaki follows proudly in his father’s footsteps with “Earthsea”

August 12, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Tales from Earthsea” is the first feature film directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of master Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. The film had a tough time making it to American screens. First, the father disagreed with the son over the film’s animation techniques. Eventually, they stopped speaking to each other during its production. Then, the film’s USA distribution got held up due to copyright issues …

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: Andrew Hamlin, Blaire Restaneo, Capitol Hill, East Roy Street, Goro Miyazaki, Harvard Exit Theatre, Hayao Miyazaki, Seattle, USA

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