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...Japan's salarymen were once revered as modern-day economic samurai. Today they're like washed-up gunslingers mocked by everyone in the saloon. The jokes at their expense are bad enough: they wear bad suits and smelly socks, their hair is gunky with oil, they behave like drunken buffoons. But cruel jokes are just the start of their torment. The lifetime employment system is over, with unemployment now hitting a 50-year high of 5.3%. And so many middle-aged men have been attacked by teenage boys that police have created a new crime classification: oyaji gari, or geezer...
...plays a character named Genta Ogami who receives a divine calling to find banaba tea. Along the way he tracks down the kidnapped father of the film's love interest, played by Joyce Jimenez, a buxom star of Philippine movies. Ogami, in heavy makeup, dodges bullets and wields samurai swords among a cast of 1,000 to defend the country from the white man. "He did well for a first-timer," insists director Toto Natividad, whose resume lists 45 Philippine action films. But while close-ups make clear the physical training and cosmetic surgery Ogami underwent for the role...
...different, that's because it's a "lamb-burger" - eating beef offends Hindu tradition. Forget about ordering a cheeseburger at a kosher outlet in Israel (mixing milk and meat is a no-no), but you could always console yourself in Cairo with a "McFalafel," or in Bangkok with a "Samurai Pork Burger." Big Macs are hard to find on the menus of the 80 Mcdonald's outlets in Beijing, which include spicy chicken wings and red bean pie - the Big Mac is there, of course, it's just sporting a more grandiose moniker: "Lu Wu Ba" ("huge incomparable warlord...
...they had free rein," says Powerpuff creator Craig McCracken. There's still plenty of toy-driven junk, particularly in the anime-action category, but cartoons have also become more diverse (with new entries like Disney Channel's African-American The Proud Family) and ambitious (Cartoon Network's epic Samurai Jack...
...rope, from professional wrestlers to martial-arts experts. Despite less-than-Amazonian builds, the Ladies won the world tug-of-war championship in 1999. Their secret: arduous training and unflinching team resolve. Three nights a week, the Ladies yank against a homemade 650-kg weight, building arm muscles and samurai spirit. They dropped this year's World Games to Spain, but the Ladies will be ready for 2002, to be held in Ireland. "It will be a chance for revenge," says team captain Yachiyo Hata. Japanese companies may be dropping like flies, but for the Ladies from Oita, failure...