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Following an “Emperor”

March 8, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Peter Webber’s historical epic “Emperor” takes place immediately after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. On the 15th of that month, Japanese Emperor Hirohito addressed his people via a recorded announcement played over national radio — the first time in Japanese history that […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2013, Aiding Fellers, Andrew Hamlin, Aya Shimada, General Bonner Fellers, His Majesty, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Koichi Kido, Masato Ibu, Matthew Fox, Northwest Asian Weekly, Norwegian Wood, Pearl Harbor, Peter Webber, Tokyo, Tommy Lee Jones, United States, Vol 32 No 11 | March 9 - March 15, language

Vietnamese director brings Murakami’s Norwegian Wood’ to life

January 26, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Director Tran Anh Hung left his native Vietnam in 1975, at the age of 12, after Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces. Until the year 2000, he made all of his films, with permission, inside the unified Vietnam, showing a rich mixture of love for his homeland with […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Director Tran Anh Hung, Haruki Murakami, Kengo Kora, Mark Lee Bing Pin, North Vietnamese, Northwest Asian Weekly, Norwegian Wood, Queen Anne Ave, Rinko Kikuchi, Seattle, Tran Ahn Hung, Vol 31 No 5 | January 28 - February 3, Watanabe Ken, japan

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