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Fallen Angels
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 22, 1998 With "Fallen Angels" Wong Kar-Wai returns to the vignette form and the razzle-dazzle style of "Chungking Express," the film that made him internationally famous. Once again Wong takes us into Hong Kong at night, a...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Cinema Industry, Hong Kong
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How to Top My Wife
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday February 10, 1995 With the dynamic and hilarious "How to Top My Wife," Korean filmmaker Woo-Suk Kang once again shows his mastery at putting a fresh, ingenious spin on Hollywood genres. Last year his "Two Cops" breathed new life into the...Tags: Entertainment, Jack Lemmon, Movies, Cinema Industry, Billy Wilder
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Last Man Standing
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 20, 1996 "Last Man Standing," Walter Hill's stylish but extremely violent reworking of Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic "Yojimbo," looks sensational with cameraman Lloyd Ahern's desaturated images, sounds wonderful with its...Tags: Sam Peckinpah, Gang Activity, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, Sergio Leone
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Picture Bride
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 5, 1995 Between 1907 and 1924 more than 19,000 Japanese women immigrated to Hawaii to marry Japanese sugar-cane workers. These couples knew little of each other beyond an exchange of photos. Drawing upon the actual experiences of many...Tags: Entertainment, Employees, Miramax Films, Japan, Cinema Industry
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'Mifune'
Times Staff WriterTalk about bad timing. The hero of Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's brutally funny "Mifune" has just married the daughter of his boss, a Copenhagen business tycoon, and given her an ecstatic bridal night when he receives a phone call that his own father, whose...Tags: Drama (genre), Lars von Trier, Copenhagen (Denmark), Family, Death
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Taboo
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 17, 2000 When you think of samurai movies, you think of Toshiro Mifune and otherepitomes of masculine heroism. When you recall director Nagisa Oshima, you're reminded of his notorious--and overrated--sex-equals-death fable "In the...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Japan, Wars and Interventions, Matthew Perry
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Himalaya
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 25, 2001 Eric Valli's "Himalaya," a 1999 Oscar nominee for foreign-language film, takes place in a remote place: the mountainous Dolpo region of Nepal and a cradle of Tibetan culture. As for the time, it is apparently the present but...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Cinema Industry, Salt, Nepal
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Screen Gems
Special to the TribuneChicago Filmmakers resumes its always eclectic screening program after a short summer hiatus by presenting "One Day in the Life of Andre Arsenevich" (3 1/2 stars), Chris Marker's fascinating documentary on the life and work of the great Soviet director,...Tags: Juliette Binoche, Entertainment, Julie Delpy, Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago
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Movie review: 'Ikiru'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic4 stars (out of 4) Akira Kurosawa's poignant 1952 masterpiece "Ikiru," which is being released in a newly struck, newly subtitled print at the Music Box Theatre, is both a tragicomedy about how our best intentions are misinterpreted and a profound...Tags: Entertainment, Music Theater, Japan, Bars and Clubs, Water Pollution
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Movie review: 'The Last Samurai'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3 stars (out of 4) A stunning spectacle of cultural violence and a loving tribute to the great Japanese samurai movies, Edward Zwick's "The Last Samurai" is an adventure epic that triumphs over an initially preposterous premise: Tom Cruise as an American...Tags: Billy Connolly, Entertainment, Hiroyuki Sanada, Assault, Armed Forces
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'The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi'
Times Staff Writer"The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi," the latest entertainment from Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano, isn't your average blind masseur-gambler-swordsman movie. Based on a series of popular genre standards, the film stars the multitalented auteur as an avenger...Tags: Entertainment, Miramax Films, Genres, Cinema Industry, Sports
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'Twilight Samurai'
Times Staff WriterFor Westerners unschooled in the way of the movie samurai, the classic image of the loyal retainer doubtless looks something like Obi-Wan Kenobi — or the late John Belushi. A genial riff on the great Toshiro Mifune, star of such Akira Kurosawa...Tags: Entertainment, John Belushi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Movies, Japan
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