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MY HEROES / ‘Suit actors’ still going strong in their 60s

Edit The Japan News 13 Jun 2016
By Mishio Suzuki / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior SpecialistA great number of tokusatsu superhero dramas — sci-fi dramas with special effects — were produced in Japan in the early 1970s ... This is because they involve more action, explosions and a lot of character transformations ... Prompted by Mishio — yours truly — as the “big sister” emcee, the audience starts chanting “Ganbare!” (C’mon!), and the three regain their power and overcome evil ... + -....

Monthly Gaming Recap: May 2016

Edit The Examiner 31 May 2016
May had some pretty powerful punches packed away. The Persona 5 release is known, for Japan at least, and there’s a new Battlefield on the way. Sadly there were some delays as well including No Man’s Sky and Mass Effect Andromeda. Plus E3 is fast approaching. Read on for the rest of the news and articles of May! ... Tristan’s Articles Grand Kingdom preview Ganbare Goemon 30th Anniversary Bizarre Bits ... Special Notes ... ....

Ganbare Goemon 30th Anniversary: Adventures of a Mystical Ninja

Edit The Examiner 05 May 2016
Ganbare Goemon was one of the trickiest retrospectives this writer has tackled to date ... Ganbare Goemon Video Retrospective Mr. Goemon (Arcade 1986) Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dochu (NES 1986) Ganbare Goemon 2 (NES 1989) Ganbare Goemon Gaiden ... Tenka no Zaiho (NES 1992) Ganbare Goemon 2 (SNES 1993) Ganbare Goemon 3 (SNES 1994) Ganbare Goemon Kirakira Dochu (SNES 1995) Soreyuke Ebisumaru! Karakuri Meiro-kieta (SNES 1996) Ganbare Goemon....

Nagorno-Karabakh: BBC visits Azerbaijan's side of frontline

Edit BBC News 03 May 2016
A two-decade long truce has been shattered by violence in western Azerbaijan. Armenia claims it is not directly involved in a conflict, where it says ethnic Armenians are defending their right to self-determination in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh ... Clutching a photo of his brother Famil, Ganbar Mustafayev was waiting with three other elderly people, also mourning dead relatives, when our bus arrived ... ....

Possible upcoming SNES games for 3DS Virtual Console

Edit Pixel Dynamo 10 Mar 2016
1-4, Dragon Ball Z 2, Ganbare Goemon 4, Kamaitachi No Yoru, Torneko no Dai Bouken, Otogirisou, Shin Megami Tensei, Heisei Sin Onigasima Zen, Heisei Sin Onigasima Kou, Wrecking Crew ’98, Mini Yonku Let’s & Go!! 2, Kirby no Kirakira Kids, Power Soukoban, Hajimari No Mori, Der Langrisser, Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun, Treasure Hunter G, ......

Lupin III Part 4, Episode 3: '0.2% Chance of Survival' (2015)

Edit The Examiner 26 Feb 2016
Episode three of Lupin III Part 4, "0.2% Chance of Survival," has a lot more action than episode two, and some major characters are revealed. Rebecca Rossellini returns in this episode (we last saw her in the first episode, getting married to Lupin III), and she receives a letter from Lupin ... Shortly after, we see Lupin stealing Marie Antoinette's necklace ... Goemon doesn't appear this time around, but he'll be in upcoming episodes ... ....

Lupin III Part 4, Episode 1: 'The Wedding Of Lupin The Third' (2015)

Edit The Examiner 03 Feb 2016
The bride is a wealthy heiress named Rebecca Rossellini, but fans of Lupin III have to wonder, are they really getting married, or is Lupin up to something for his next big heist? Shortly after, Lupin's crew, Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko are seen at the wedding and the reception, but what are they really up to? In traditional Lupin III style, ......

Melinda Houston's TV picks for Friday, January 15: The Project, This Old Thing, Goemon

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 30 Dec 2015
GOEMON ... Tonight, Marc Fennell dishes up another one, this time from Japan. the tale of ninja Goemon Ishikawa, who leaves his clan to become a kind of Robin Hood, then finds himself sidetracked into a long, complicated, and extremely violent quest for vengeance ... up as Goemon high kicks and sword slashes his way to bittersweet victory....

Relief, anger, indifference over South Korea-Japan sex slave deal

Edit Indian Express 30 Dec 2015
29, 2015. South Korean officials met with former sex slaves to seek their support for a landmark deal with Japan. (Photo source. AP) ... Watch Video ... 29, 2015 ... (AP Photo) ... In Tokyo, about 180 members of a rightist group, Ganbare Nippon, chanted, “Your act of selling out the country is unforgiveable,” and “Retract it!” One wore a placard saying, “The military use of comfort women is a fiction by Korea.” ... ....

Relief, anger, indifference over SKorea-Japan sex slave deal

Edit Springfield News-Sun 29 Dec 2015
Both sides compromised on Monday's surprise deal, so no one got everything they wanted. Nationalists in Japan are angry over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's apology ... raised fears of mad cow disease ... In Tokyo, about 180 members of a rightist group, Ganbare Nippon, chanted, "Your act of selling out the country is unforgiveable," and "Retract it!" One wore a placard saying, "The military use of comfort women is a fiction by Korea." ... ___ ... ....

‘Persona 5’ to be Set in a Juvenile School Setting, Reveals Game Director

Edit Master Herald 19 Nov 2015
Atlus game director and team producer Katsura Hashino has made a couple of new revelations regarding the upcoming role-playing game “Persona 5” coming to the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation 4 next year ... Confirming the new details ... A new mission to steal hearts ... Accordingly, the game’s personas are based on iconic thieves in pop culture and history such as Goemon Ishikawa and Arsene Lupin, among others ... Page 1 of 212». ....

Kazuaki Kiriya and Takeshi Ihara, impressed by 350 fans, promoting “Last Knights”, handing out business ...

Edit Public Technologies 10 Nov 2015
(Source. TIFF - Tokyo International Film Festival). Kazuaki Kiriya and Takeshi Ihara, impressed by 350 fans, promoting 'Last Knights', handing out business cards. ©2015 TIFF ... Director Kazuaki Kiriya and actor Takeshi Ihara gave the greetings from the stage ... This film is a Hollywood debut for the director of Casshern and Goemon, Kiriya who portrays the noble knights in the film which is based on Forty‐seven Ronin ... distributed by ... (noodl....

Five Must-Watch Anime for Autumn 2015

Edit Kotaku 10 Nov 2015
This season there are 54 new anime on the air, so it can be more than a little difficult to know which ones to watch. But now that the season has reached its half-way point, we at Kotaku come bearing our recommendations ... Beautiful Bones ... Studio. Troyca. Currently at. Episode 5 (of 12). Genre. Mystery ... bones ... Crunchyroll ... While all the old favourites return—Lupin, Fujiko, Goemon, Jigen, and Zenigata—the series’ new characters stand on their own....
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