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...possible execution, she revealed her Japanese ancestry and was deported. But Yamaguchi's charisma soon overcame her "crimes." In the '50s she made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well as in Japan (Kurosawa's Scandal). Later she was elected to several terms as a Liberal Democrat to Japan's parliament. Pretty dramatic, eh? No wonder her life story inspired a Tokyo musical. (So did Hayakawa...
...nose. They shouldn't behave like Girdhari Lal, a bear who knows all the standard stunts. How does a movie heroine walk? The bear stands on his hind legs and sways seductively. A hero? The bear swaggers. Show us how to smoke a cigarette? The beast puffs on a bamboo stick. And are you going to claw these nice people watching you? He shakes his head. "These animal rights people don't understand," says Girdhari Lal's owner, Husain Ali. "We love our animals and care for them like our own children...
...people of the earth), a tribe that took its carving skills and wood tools and reshaped entire mountains into a living three-dimensional contour map. The rice terraces around Batad, and nearby Bangaan and Banaue, are one of those world wonders that demand a top eight rating. For centuries bamboo pipes and an intricate network of rivulets have taken water scores of miles to irrigate thousands of rice fields half-a-day's walk above the valley floor. The terrace walls are two to three meters high and end to end would stretch 20,000 km?the equivalent...
Mornings in the mountains tend to dawn bright and clear, while afternoons often bring rain?a weather pattern that compels hikers to start early and pitch their tents before bad weather sets in. From Chilai Ridge the long trek down winds through bamboo forests and the tiny aboriginal settlement of Tianshih. From there, follow a 10-km trail to a logging road that leads to the town of Lushan. It's important to be met at the trail head: the walk down the road to Lushan is daunting. The Chilai Ridge hike takes three days and three nights...
...because it was an Ang Lee movie," Chow recalls. "But his ideas couldn't be worked out. Finally, he'd go to Wo-ping and say, 'Master, I'm wrong. Let's do it your way.'" At least Lee convinced Yuen of the need for the big bamboo scene. "He liked the way the swaying limbs of the bamboo mimicked the postures of the actors as they fought," Yuen says. "He was very insistent...