search tools

Interview with Kipjo K. Ewers, Author of the 'EVO Universe' Series

Edit The Examiner 23 Dec 2015
I remember growing up and waking up early every Saturday morning to catch my favorite superheroes cartoons. They were so cool, powerful, and nothing can stop them. They are always fighting bad guys and thwarting evil schemes. I used to record the fight scenes just so that I can watch them over and over again ... Michael Pang ... Kipjo Ewers ... I was also a practitioner of the martial arts studying Tao Kwon Do and Kōga-ryū Ninjutsu ... M.P.. I hear you....

Chieko Baisho speaks about Ken Takakura for the first time: “He was an actor with ...

Edit Public Technologies 31 Oct 2015
(Source. TIFF - Tokyo International Film Festival). Chieko Baisho speaks about Ken Takakura for the first time. 'He was an actor with a pretentious mind'. ©2015 TIFF. As part of the 'Ken Takakura and His Era ... Actress Chieko Baisho, who starred with Takakura in 1980, spoke about her experiences working with Takakura at a talk show after the film ... 'Just like Kiyoshi Atsumi and Chishū Ryū, we'll never see an actor like Ken again ... (noodl....

Why I Love Ninjas

Edit Kotaku 30 Oct 2015
The people known today as ninja (they pronounced it “shinobi” then) rose out of small villages in the Iga and Kōga regions of Japan ... The villages of Iga and Kōga were eventually attacked by one of the greatest warlords of the era, Oda Nobunaga (an event that forms the loose inspiration for, among many other things, the underrated Neo Geo fighting game Ninja Master’s[sic], by World Heroes developer ADK)....

First Yakuza 6 Footage Debuts

Edit Game Rant 29 Sep 2015
Back in the wild west days of the PlayStation 2, publishers tended to take more gambles, bringing smaller gaming franchises stateside and hoping for the best ... Ryū ga Gotoku 6, as it’s known natively, will be the franchise’s first proper PS4 release, and Sega is pulling out all the stops – even recruiting one of Japan’s most famous actors to appear in the game ... Source. Gamespot. ....

$1m Unfriended opens a new window for Blumhouse's super-profitable horror

Edit The Guardian 07 May 2015
In this week’s instalment of our series tracking the global box office …. Micro-budget horror show … Shelley Hennig and Moses Jacob Storm in Unfriended. Photograph. Everett/Rex Shutterstock. Phil Hoad. @phlode ... The winner ... And yet Avengers ... Facebook Twitter ... Cheap scares ... $5.8) ... Audition author Ryū Murakami saw a Korean adaptation of another novel of his, the 1980 novel Coin Locker Babies, hit No 2 in that country and 12th globally with $3.8m ... ....

New Martial Arts Titles from Kodansha

Edit The Examiner 15 Jul 2014
It’s always exciting when I see new titles arriving from Kodansha USA. Their books are always made with exceptional care. Plus, the books are well written and chock full of information. The two titles that arrived (which I’ll review later this summer) are. ... Sensei Hatsumi is the 34th Grand Master of Togakure-ryū and ranked in eight other arts ... ... ....
×
×
×
×