The Golden Globes returned to the air Jan. 10 with a red carpet flush with celebrities, comedian Jerrod Carmichael as a hesitant emcee and top awards for Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” and Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin,” as the beleaguered award show sought to rekindle its pre-pandemic and pre-scandal glamour. On a soggy night […]
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150 years of documenting JA history
January 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Poet and author Maya Angelou is said to have said, “You can’t really know where you’re going until you know where you have been.” These words ring true in “Paper Chase,” a documentary film that takes us on a 150-year journey of where Japanese Americans have been through the lens of the community newspapers that […]
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ wins at Gotham Awards
December 8, 2022 by Leave a Comment
NEW YORK — “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won best feature at the 32nd Gotham Awards on Nov. 28, taking one of the first major prizes of Hollywood’s awards season and boosting the Oscar hopes of the anarchic indie hit of the year. Also taking an award for his work on the film was Ke […]
Rose Tajiri, time traveler, a history keeper and a chronicler of Japanese American experience
November 10, 2022 by Leave a Comment
At first glance, viewers may be a bit perplexed by what’s happening with Rose Tajiri Noda, the 93-year-old central character in “Wisdom Gone Wild,” a new feature documentary by Rose’s Sansei daughter, award-winning filmmaker Rea Tajiri. Rose has dementia, but rather than make a film about the disease of dementia, Rea Tajiri has centered her […]
Dr. Bala finds his life’s purpose
October 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
If you were to look up “ikigai” in a Japanese dictionary, you may find a photo of Dr. Kazuhiro Omura, because if there’s anyone who has figured out his “reason for being” and “life purpose” it’s Omura, aka “Dr. Bala,” to thousands of medically underserved people throughout Southeast Asia. In “Dr. Bala,” a feature documentary […]
Film details Monterey citizens’ wartime support of Japanese American neighbors
October 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Located in a dusty filing cabinet in an old Japanese American Citizens League building in Monterey, Calif., a local historian made a remarkable discovery in 2013: A 16mm film from 1938 showing local Issei and Nisei having fun at the wharf and playing baseball, and a large stack of signed petitions demanding the restoration of […]
Cancer survivor Paul Goodman’s ‘No No Girl’ premieres
September 29, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Paul Goodman finished his film “No No Girl” in a matter of months despite battling leukemia. Goodman was first diagnosed with cancer in 2016. After receiving chemotherapy, the young filmmaker went into remission for four years. Unfortunately, he relapsed in 2021. “It was severe. The relapse showed that the chemotherapy did not work and in […]
‘HERbeat’: Asian women lead ‘a new era of taiko’
September 29, 2022 by Leave a Comment
“We hope to inspire people not to have the courage to win at all cost, but to persevere through all adversity.” – Tiffany Tamaribuchi, “Finding Her Beat” Not even Tiffany Tamaribuchi could have anticipated the extreme adversity she and 17 taiko women faced when Tamaribuchi and concert partner Jennifer Weir brought together an “all-star” cast […]
South Korean celebration of ‘Squid Game’ Emmy wins subdued
September 15, 2022 by Leave a Comment
SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans shared congratulations on social media Sept. 13 for the multiple wins by “Squid Game” at the Emmy Awards, but the overall reaction was subdued as the country grows accustomed to its increasingly prominent role in global entertainment. From K-pop sensations BTS and BLACKPINK to the movie “Parasite” that won […]
Jo Koy’s ‘Easter Sunday’ puts Filipinos front and center
August 18, 2022 by Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES — For a comedy, Jo Koy’s new movie “Easter Sunday” had a lot of water works. The film was no ordinary job for the comedian and the rest of the cast. The magnitude of being on a mostly Filipino set led to happy cry-fests, Koy said. Emotions really hit when co-star Tia Carrere […]
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