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...Akinori Nishizawa, 25, on a 10-month loan. Across the North Sea, Urawa Reds midfielder Shinji Ono, 21, signed a reported $4 million deal with first division Dutch side Feyenoord. In Italy, A.C. Parma paid league champions A.S. Roma a cool $26 million for the services of superstar Hidetoshi Nakata; the 24-year-old playmaker, now firmly established in Italian football, previously played for Perugia...
...this, too, Nakata led the way. He made tiny Perugia a household name in Japan, his name selling thousands of Tshirts and TV rights to the club's games. He also became the town's main tourist draw. "Japanese fans were crawling all over the place," says Perugia spokesman Paolo Meattelli. Even before he has kicked a ball in Parma's blue-and-yellow colors, Nakata has made a good start for the club: on the day he signed up, Parma inked a contract to sell 10,000 Nakata jerseys in Japan. Every Parma match will be broadcast live...
...weeks ago. That film, about a girl with the ability to contact spirits and see ghosts, has the imprimatur of Ann Hui, one of Hong Kong's few art-house directors. Its three-day box office opening in Hong Kong set an all-time record, eclipsing Ring, Hideo Nakata's horror flick. Meanwhile, Joan Chen, former-leading-lady-turned-auteur with Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, is courting her for a script to be shot in China, based on Yan Geling's novel, The Lost Daughter of Happiness. And last week Shu Qi signed up with...
...person Waddle won over was Kazuo Nakata, father of one of the Japanese lost on the sunken boat. He sat each day at the inquiry filled with anger, until he met Waddle face to face and accepted his apologies. "He bowed to me, and a tear fell to the floor. In that moment we were two human beings," said Nakata...
...person Waddle won over was Kazuo Nakata, father of one of the Japanese lost on the sunken boat. He sat each day at the inquiry filled with anger, until he met Waddle face to face and accepted his apologies. "He bowed to me, and a tear fell to the floor. In that moment we were two human beings," said Nakata...