tv reviews/Beautiful Rain (Jdrama)
posted Monday, September 10th, 2012
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Beautiful Rain tells the story of young single father Keisuke, who is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s and must figure out what to do with his 8-year-old daughter Miu.

film features/The Banana Guide to Asian Entertainment: It’s All About Japan: Part III
posted Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
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Greetings, YAMMies! We are on the third part of my Japanese entertainment journey of a series on the Banana views on Asian entertainment.

film reviews/Love Letter (1995)
posted Friday, May 18th, 2012
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Love Letter is Shunji Iwai’s first feature length film, and it’s a quintessential Asian romance — scratch that, Love Letter is a classic of the genre.

film features/Amy: A Life in Movies
posted Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
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Amy’s Life in Movies

film reviews/Hula Girls
posted Thursday, March 17th, 2011
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Hula Girls, set in the 1960s, follows a group of girls that set out to learn to hula dance in order to save their town from the decline of the coal mining industry. The heads of families are losing their jobs, and tensions arise from the fact that they want to open a Hawaiian center in a really cold city.