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...Libeskind and others like them have tied the old architectural forms in knots, yet they build around the world. You're reminded of that again in the show's final galleries, which are devoted to recent work?some built, some merely theoretical?by contemporary visionaries like Shigeru Ban and Jun Aoki, young Japanese architects who are making aggressive use of new structural systems, materials or computer design software...
...cannot tolerate or forgive the revision of history by Japanese war criminals and their descendants. Can wartime executioners be absolved and honored? Can genocide be omitted from history textbooks? In postwar Japan they can. Japan still owes China an apology. How can we leave the past behind? He Jun Beijing...
...don’t look in the mirror. Bed head was hot on many a Parisian runway. Put on your Sevens and a vintage tee and be on your way. If you’re really daring, you can even throw a leaf in your hair like Undercover designer Jun Takahashi (though you might get weird looks from your Japanese TF?...
...When Jun decided she was ready to return to comedy, so was Kwak. He'd written the script for Windstruck, a tale of a romance between a goofy high-school teacher and a sassy female police officer, with Jun in mind. The script?and Jun's likely involvement?caught the attention of Kong, who was looking for a way into South Korea's ballooning film industry, which now captures more than 50% of the country's box office. Kong thought that a broad South Korean comedy like Windstruck, with an international star like Jun, had a chance...
...Windstruck wants to be a more ambitious film than Sassy, so Kwak turns off the fun too soon and retreats to typically South Korean melodrama. Yet the movie manages to rise above its occasional sappiness, thanks mostly to the charm of its two young stars. Jun pulls off her signature trick: veering between violence and vulnerability and back again, without missing a beat. After lunch, she leaves for a photo shoot, for which the concept?apparently?is that she is "the world's favorite girlfriend." Not yet. But give her time...