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Kabe Otoko (The Wall Man)

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:11:30 -0500

Had a chance to watch Kabe Otoko today, starring my favorite actor, Sakai Masato. It's a horror movie, but more along the lines of creepy rather than scary, which is typical for Japanese horror. The plot involves a reporter, Kyoko, (played by On...

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Camelot and Hula

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:36:32 -0500

Yesterday seemed to be PBS day in our house. There were a couple of interesting shows that I recorded and watched. PBS's Live from Lincoln Center had a performance of Camelot, one of my favorite musicals. Gabriel Byrne played King Arthur and ...

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Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:45:06 -0600

So, yesterday, I finished reading the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy by Pamela Aidan. The books in this series are An Assembly Such as This, Duty and Desire and These Three Remain. They were recommended to me and I thought I'd try them out,...

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A Couple of Books About Medieval Japanese Women

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:51:17 -0600

So I have these two books out via inter-library loan (ILL), mainly because they're so pricey I can't afford them. Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, edited by Chieko Mulhern is an interesting dictionary showcasing Japanese female ...

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A Little Heian Lit

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:53:15 -0600

Finally finished Everyday Things in Modern Japan, which was excellent. It really engrossed me in a subject matter (historical demographics) that usually comes out quite dry. The emphasis is on the Edo period (better records for that time), but t...

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Utahime

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:00:42 -0600

I just finished watching Utahime (dramawiki site is here), a nostalgic romance set in the mid-1950s. What an excellent drama! The drama starts off with the trials and tribulations of Akira (played by TOKIO lead singer Nagase Tomoya), a young ma...

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The Mist

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:35:10 -0600

I've seen some previews of the new movie, The Mist, which looks really good and horribly depressing. As I have been in poor spirits lately, I decided to forego the movie for now (catch it on DVD later or something) and read the original Stephen K...

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Twin Peaks, The Worst Hard Time

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:54:24 -0600

One of the things that really makes me appreciate the life I have (well, besides watching COPS, which is enough to make anybody happy that they're not on camera with The Men and Women of Law Enforcement) is to read books about The Great Depressio...

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Hotelier (Jdrama)

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:00:19 -0500

Autumn must be here, because I'm finding time to watch Jdrama again. This past week, I've been marathoning Hotelier, a Japanese remake of the popular Korean drama of the same name. First, I wasn't even aware that "Hotelier" was even a word. It'...

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A Couple of Books on Japanese Nuns

nobody@vox.com(reynardine) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:03:42 -0500

Recently read a couple of books that were quite good. The first was Letters of the Nun Eshinni by James C. Dobbins. Eshinni was a nun who lived during the Kamakura era, and who was married to the monk Shinran , the founder of the Jodo Shinshu (...

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