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...than one of any film or TV show, it will soon be a DVD boxed set. So, sure, you can own the American Pie trilogy or Father Murphy: Season 2. But there are better uses for your player, money and capacity for wonder. The great Japanese anime auteur HAYAO MIYAZAKI is packaging three of his sublime early films--Nausicaä of the Valley Wind, Porco Rosso and The Cat Returns--all with A-list English-language voice casts (Feb. 22). Josephine Baker...
...never tried to make things easy on her. "I have been coaching my daughter since she was 13 and made her cry many times," he says. Determined to live up to his heady expectations, she worked harder than anyone. "The volume of her training is enormous," says sportswriter Toshiya Miyazaki, who has authored a book on the younger Hamaguchi's career. "If other wrestlers do something three times, she will do it five times." That drive has helped earn her five world championships, the first...
...Japan and hundreds of thousands more across Asia since last summer. A 32-date Japan tour last month sold out in 10 minutes, and a follow-up album, Shining Energy, has gone platinum since its release in March. "They're outselling the biggest Japanese stars," says Rei Miyazaki, an editor at the Tokyo-based music magazine Oricon. "Nobody thought a foreign band could ever do that, much less a Chinese...
...growing virtuosity inevitably raises his second least favorite question: Can he become the next Hayao Miyazaki, whose Spirited Away was a global hit last year and which picked up an Oscar for Best Animated Film? Dream-Works' Daly believes he can; so does Maruyama. But ask Kon if he wants to follow in the footsteps of the reigning emperor of anim?, and after a moment of offended silence he starts to wave his hand violently in front of him as if warding off a curse. "I've never even thought about it," he insists, a little unconvincingly...
...city hall?Kon's penchant for realistic settings and characters doesn't make him a social crusader. "I like drawing pictures and telling stories," he says. "I'm not trying to save Japan; I just want to show people how things look to me." For all his impatience with Miyazaki's morals and happy endings, it's hard to avoid the impression that Kon took some cues from his rival when making Tokyo Godfathers. In Kon's first two movies he abandoned his characters to harsh fates. The heroes of Tokyo Godfathers, in contrast, seem to be watched over...