Word: takeshi
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...artists and filmmakers from 25 countries will sprawl across QAG and GoMA from Dec. 5 to Apr. 5. Admission is free, and there's a plethora of satellite events, including a Kids APT, concerts, lectures and a cinema program featuring directors Ang Lee (Taiwan), Rithy Panh (Cambodia/France) and Takeshi Kitano (Japan). (See pictures of Australia's hidden islands...
...roughly twice the price of conventional digital cameras. The picture frame will cost several hundred dollars, too; Fuji isn't sure yet how much to charge for 3-D prints. "We know that if it's over 500 yen [$5] per photo, it probably won't sell," says Takeshi Higuchi, general manager of Fujifilm's Electronic Imaging Division...
...fantasy - thus allowing the nobility to stay in power amid widespread poverty. Enter K-20, the Fiend (kaijin) with 20 Faces, who can assume almost any identity, and who steals from the rich but also oppresses the poor. Only one man (pan-Asian star Takeshi Kaneshiro) can stop K-20 - if he can just figure out what evil genius is behind that ever-changing mask. A buoyant pace, meticulous design and a robust parkour fight on a skyscraper roof mark this superior effort from Sato, one of Japan's rare female directors of big-budget action films...
...movies Americans have never heard of can pull in blockbuster numbers. Recent global winners include the French comedy Welcome to the Sticks, at $243 million; the first installment of the two-part Red Cliff, John Woo's return to Chinese-language action films, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro, which has taken in $125 million; and Hayao Miyazaki's charming animé for kids, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, earning $177 million. U.S. fans of Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) will be pleased to hear that Disney will be releasing the film in the States this...
...Chungking Express Wong Kar-wai's 1994 distillation of Hong Kong grunge and glamour weaves four top Asian stars (Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro) into a crazy-tender two-part romance. How can nosebleed-high art also provide fizzy delight? Here...