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...been the subject of so many extreme and contradictory signals as Japan, in foreign films and in its own product. The Japanese have been seen as proud warriors and shy bureaucrats, courtesans and devoted daughters, a most cultured people and the most barbaric. Western directors like Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour) and Steven Spielberg (who will achieve a Japanese trilogy if he ever adds the long-deferred Memoirs of a Geisha to 1941 and Empire of the Sun) have joined such local masters as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu and Nagisa Oshima in trying to define the bold, elusive Japanese psyche...
...still hasn't gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon. The glistening sand on the skin of the lovers in Hiroshima mon amour and Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes are a kind of atomic glaze - an artistic rendering of the nuclear dusting of those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the American bombings...
...viewers have no need to get an image of Japan from Americans with a message or a grudge. And if the glory days of the nation's art film are gone, the export industry for filmed entertainment has never been more robust. Every kid cherishes Pokémon. Every lurker in specialized video stores knows the "violent pink" sex melodramas. Anime is everywhere. And actor-director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is the tough guy du jour...
...company hopes the Butt-Ugly Martians' appeal will foster a Pokémon-like craze. It has already lined up 50 licensees, including Hasbro, which is making B.U.M. toys, and the food concern Heinz, set to deliver Butt-Ugly pasta. Videos and figurines are already available; come September, larger action dolls will hit the stores. The strategy is global - the B.U.M.s will be charging into Europe in the autumn. And in June the Martians, who have American accents, will make their TV debut in the all-important U.S. market...
...Karin Ciescik, 45, a New York insurance broker. "I'm a polar buff. I just love the cold." Jeff Warren, managing director of Britain's Windrush Management, chose Iceland for a company holiday. Why? "If we went to Tenerife, we'd just hang around on the beach and drink, mon, so we decided to branch out," says this burly, dreadlocked native of Jamaica after a day of snowboarding in the Arctic cold. "This is one of the few places I've ever been where you're planning to return even before you leave...