Word: hideo
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...Dodgers would seem to be the best fit. Los Angeles has a large Japanese population (about 37,000) and an even larger hole at short. On top of that, two Dodgers pitchers are Japanese (Hideo Nomo and Kaz Ishii), and the team's managing partner (Bob Daly) was once the boss of Tellem's wife, Nancy, who is currently the president of CBS Entertainment. The only factor working against L.A. is money: the franchise is up for sale, and the transition to new ownership might clog the team's cash flow...
...proving to be a well-stocked pond. DreamWorks has bought remake rights to the Korean romantic comedy My Sassy Girl, and Tom Cruise's production company picked up the Hong Kong-Thai ghost thriller The Eye. Dark Water, another spectral-effects drama from Ringu author Koji Suzuki and director Hideo Nakata, is to be remade in Hollywood, possibly with Nakata himself at the helm...
...made it to the major leagues. Reliever Masanori Murakami appeared in a total of 54 games for the San Francisco Giants in 1964 and '65, and then only because his parent club sent him to the U.S. for seasoning. But in the winter of '95 Kintetsu Buffaloes pitcher Hideo Nomo and his agent, Don Nomura, exploited a loophole in the agreement between Japanese baseball and the major leagues: if a player retired, he was free to play for whomever he wished. Nomo announced his retirement and promptly struck a deal with the Dodgers, and all Japan reacted...
...What Japanese horror master Hideo Nakata did for TV sets in his 1998 blockbuster The Ring, he does for drippy faucets in his latest film Dark Water, a tale of urban anxiety, domestic agony and spookily bad plumbing. Stressed-out single mother Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) and her five-year-old daughter, Ikuko (Rio Kanno) move into an apartment building with a serious humidity problem and a demonic elevator on loan from Poltergeist. They stick around even after a sinister water stain begins expanding on the ceiling and they learn that their building was once inhabited by a young girl...
...year-old Ishii, who spent 10 seasons with the Yakult Swallows before signing a four-year, $12.8 million contract with L.A. in February, is the latest in a line of foreign-born Dodgers pitchers whose talent has lost nothing in the translation. He follows in the footsteps of compatriot Hideo Nomo, the Japanese righthander who was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1995; Korean righthander Chan Ho Park, who won 75 games over the past five seasons; and Mexican lefthander Fernando Valenzuela, who as a 20-year-old in '81 won the league's rookie and Cy Young...