Tagged: ryoko hirosue

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The Year of Asian 2.0: Hallyu and More

It’s been nearly 11 years since I wrote the small piece on The Year of Asian, celebrating Yojiro Takita’s Okuribito snatching the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Slumdog Millionaire sweeping award season...

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Hana & Alice

Hana and Alice are best friends, but what happens when growing up and falling in love gets in the way?

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FLOWERS (Japanese Film)

FLOWERS is set in different eras starting with the 1930s, and moving on through the 60s, 70s until our day and age through three generations of women.

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Galileo (Jdrama)

Galileo is a 2007 Japanese series of 10 episodes starring Masaharu Fukuyama and Kou Shibasaki, following Dr. Yukawa — a physicist obsessed with finding answers to the cases that rookie detective Utsumi thinks are impossible to solve.

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Okuribito

Okuribito tells the story of Daigo Kobayashi, an average cellist who’s lost his job and is forced to go back to his hometown where he finds a job as a traditional funeral “artist” to prepare the dead for their “departure.”