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Review: ‘The Yellow Handkerchief’
Feb. 25, 2010
Strong performances and nimble direction combine to make this sensitive road film a trip worth taking.
Dec. 17, 2008
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World & Nation
We did more giggling than gasping when we caught “I Love Trouble”--the flick that has “journalists” Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte walking an investigative tightrope for rival newspapers.
Aug. 4, 1994
In the past, the arrival of a film like “Sure Death 3” (Little Tokyo Cinema I) would have been routine, but nowadays the opening of a new Japanese period picture is an occasion, for the genre is almost--but happily not quite--as dead as the Western.
July 3, 1987
Travel & Experiences
Dec. 13, 2018
Obituaries
Ken Takakura, a quiet, craggy-faced star known for playing outlaws and stoic heroes in scores of Japanese films, has died.
Nov. 18, 2014
It is altogether fitting that Japan Week L.A. 1988 is honoring writer-director Yoji Yamada by calling attention to some key films he has made outside his long-running Tora-san series, now in its record-breaking 39th installment (more than 19 years).
Sept. 20, 1988
Forget, for the moment, any philosophical examination of the villainous nature of Gordon Gekko.
Jan. 8, 1988