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...blessing know they are bait. They dangle far from the formidable, heavily fortified perimeters of other U.S. bases in Afghanistan. Instead of the hundreds or thousands of troops that are in the large encampments, there are only a dozen Green Berets from what is known as Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 936 and a smattering of Marines. But they are dangling far from safety to attract a big catch. "This is Osama bin Laden's backyard," says the team sergeant. "And part of the solution to tracking him is having guys like us out here in isolated areas...
...going to be Sony," he says coyly. "But look at large markets where products cost more than they should, and it's almost a certainty we'll go into them." So get some popcorn, settle into a recliner and stay tuned for more announcements. --With reporting by Yuki Oda and Toko Sekiguichi/Tokyo
...Katsuyuki Motohiro. "Next thing I knew, I was one of the hottest movie directors in the country." Motohiro is back behind the camera for the sequel, as are all of the original film's screenwriters and producers. Also present for encores is the cast, including actor and singer Yuji Oda in the starring role as Aoshima, the boyishly handsome detective. With a bigger budget, a handful of new faces (including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's son Kotaro playing a police-department surveillance expert) and the most extensive domestic movie-marketing campaign in history, Bayside Shakedown 2 has become the most...
...whole Bayside Shakedown universe was designed as a metaphor for Japan, Inc. "We wanted to depict the daily struggles that average salarymen and office ladies face every day," he says. "We simply transferred it to a police setting." This approach also makes abundant financial sense, adds leading man Oda: "There is no way we can compete with Hollywood budgets. So we do what they can't or won't. We focus on the Japanese audience and work with themes that speak directly to them. Hollywood has to make stories that appeal to the whole world. We, on the other hand...
...test at the Ikeda school. But armchair psychologists are already diagnosing the case. "The noises children make sound good to many people, but for someone who feels victimized?and I think this suspect is probably one of them?those noises sound like children are mocking him," says Susumu Oda, a psychiatrist specializing in criminal cases at Osaka's Tezukayamgakuin University. "He worked in an elementary school and got fired. Now the subject of his resentment expanded to schools in general...