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...rritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have investigated this chance-is-destiny theme before, in Amores Perros and 21 Grams. This time, the canvas is larger, stretching from California and Mexico to Morocco and Japan. The weaving of the three story strands is dextrous; the performances, especially by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a very harried married couple and Rinko Kikuchi as a deaf-mute Tokyo teen, are fierce and acute. Then coincidence keeps piling on improbability, and the viewer's interest sours into exasperation. Yes, bad things can happen to decent people. But compared to the calamities that befall...
PEAKING AT 70 Japan's Takao Arayama, believed to be the oldest person to scale Everest, got to the top when he was 70 years 7 months and 13 days old, edging the previous record holder by three days...
...strange bird took flight on April 29 from Fujikawa runway in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The world's first manned, disposable-battery-powered aircraft--running on 160 AAs--flew for 90 seconds in a test run to display the capability of Panasonic's new Oxyride Extreme Power batteries, released last year. Panasonic, best known for its consumer electronics, is planning to blast its way into the U.S. battery market with a new technology and a ton of aggressive brand campaigning. The company, a division of Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., craves no less than the top spot...
...Silk, directed by Su Chao-bin, tries a sciencey twist on the ghostly-kid genre spawned in Japan by The Ring and imitated by movie industries from Hong Kong's to Hollywood's. Beginning with that favorite Asian movie trope - sending some disposable Caucasian to his violent death - Silk focus on a Taipei research project that has managed, through some anti-gravity gizmo called the Menger Sponge, to capture the ghost of a nine-year old boy. Guess what? The death-child escapes...
...campaign's goal is not without precedent. Previous suicide magnets - the Empire State Building, Sydney Harbor Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mt. Mihara volcano in Japan - have all installed barriers, resulting in dramatic reductions, in some cases to zero, in the number of desperate people who jump...