film reviews/Hana & Alice
posted Friday, March 29th, 2013
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Hana and Alice are best friends, but what happens when growing up and falling in love gets in the way?

trailers/I Have to Buy New Shoes Trailer
posted Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
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It’s always good to get the chance to see Nakayama Miho. I Have to Buy New Shoes (or Atarashii Kutsu wo Kawanakucha, 新しい靴を買わなくちゃ) follows a freelance writer and a photographer who fall in love in three days in the city of Paris.

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.

features/The Banana Guide to Asian Entertainment: It’s All About Japan: Part I
posted Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
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The part in which we talk about that one Jdrama, that one movie and that one actress.

film features/Five Asian Movies that Should Be Released in Peru
posted Friday, February 3rd, 2012
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My latest post on Asian movies that should be released in Peru by local distributors is up on Cinencuentro.

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

film features/Five Unlikely Romances for 2011′s Valentine’s Day
posted Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
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Ahhh… how we don’t really care about Valentine’s Day, especially when our selection of films at the cinema contains such vapid productions as the unoriginally titled Valentine’s Day last year. But there’s something for everyone… and here are five picks~

film reviews/Bandage
posted Monday, September 6th, 2010
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Bandage is directed by Takeshi Kobayashi… who produces great music. Alas, Bandage is not that great of a story or have great characters, but it’s got pretty good music.

yam pdf/YAM – Issue 008
posted Sunday, February 14th, 2010
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Well, we’ve got reviews for Bright Star, Nine, Princess and the Frog, New York I Love You, Anvil: The Story of Anvil, Sa Dingding’s sophomore album Harmony, SNSD, 2AM, Mosquito-voice Kim JongKook, Modern Family, Nurse Jackie and more!

Plus! We’ve got articles on the direction of Chinese Pop music, our list of actresses that should get a cable show, and our picks that should have been Best Picture nominees at the Academy Awards.