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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Another vision of an alternate Japan, based on a manga (by So Kitamura), this movie proposes that the country's rulers averted a multicontinental World War II by forging a truce with the U.S. the day after Pearl Harbor - as we say, it's a fantasy - thus allowing the nobility to stay in power amid widespread poverty. Enter K-20, the Fiend (kaijin) with 20 Faces, who can assume almost any identity, and who steals from the rich but also oppresses the poor. Only one man (pan-Asian star Takeshi Kaneshiro) can stop K-20 - if he can just figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Film Fireworks for the Fourth | 7/4/2009 | See Source »

...Takei has since published a diverse range of books from authors and artists, including Noam Chomsky, Terry Richardson and Nobuhiko Kitamura, founder of fashion brand Hysteric Glamour. It was as a publisher of photography books, however, that Little More established its edgy reputation. Takei believed that visually rich books priced at music-CD levels could be marketed to young people who don't usually read. "Little More doesn't spend any money on the look or the binding of the book at all. They spend money only on the contents, and for the contents they spend as much as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heat Detector | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...STANDING ON ITS HEAD. Reality mixes with the past to arouse and comfort a man confronting the crises of middle age. The Asian American Association Players presents Philip K. Gotanda’s play about Harry Kitamura, a successful law professor, who finds his life and marriage unraveling when he researches a paper on his involvement in the 1970’s campus strike. Odd characters with violent and sexual impulses begin to invade his dreams, spilling over into his waking life so that he can no longer tell the two worlds apart. A wildly fantastic ride into obsession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 25-May 1 | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

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