It really ticked me off yesterday while watching the Oscars.
When an award winner is announced and the winner walks from their seat onto the stage, there is a background announcer (perhaps for TV only) that provides some extra info regarding the film and the winner.
As they were announcing the winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay and William Monahan winning for The Departed, the female background announcer said that the film was adapted from a JAPANESE film, Infernal Affairs!!??
WTF!? A JAPANESE film?
Everyone knows that Infernal Affairs is a Hong Kong film.
That was so full of BULL****!!!!
And here you think that it is the Oscars after all and they would be well organized and get all the facts straight.
Did they dig up the info from Rotten Tomatoes’ Infernal Affairs 2’s about page??
Even the IMDB site had the Country origin being Hong Kong.
They better apologize to the Hong Kong people and the Hong Kong cinema for their mistake.
It seems these background announcement was for TV only. William Monahan was oblivious to the mistake and did not correct it on stage. But at least when Martin Scorsese won Best Director, he did mention his appreciation for the Hong Kong film.
Japan has always been the homeland of crazy high-tech gadgets and a techophile’s wet dream, but leave it to the Japanese to even attempt something of this caliber. I guess it’s great news for beer and milk lovers though, as a liquor shop owner in Japan’s largest dairy farming region has stopped crying about local spilt milk and started making beer from it instead.
Continue reading ‘なに?? Beer + Milk = Bilk???’
After releasing the single, Rolling Star, YUI is going to release another new single, CHE.R.RY, next month. And of course, the PV came out yesterday to begin the CHE.R.RY promo.
I was gonna link a Youtube video here, but lately they have been receiving pressure from the Japanese entertainment industry to remove most of the copyrighted contents like PVs and Shows. Instead of embedding the video, I’ll provide a search link which currently does turn up a number of videos of the PV.
YUI - CHE.R.RY PV on Youtube Search
For those who have download the actual video, here the download to the Soft Subtitle set:
UPDATED - 2007-03-09
The Lismo! Version DVD Rip has the same timing as the M-ON version. If you have downloaded the M-ON version of the subs, you don’t need to download it again.
The soft subtitles for other YUI’s PVs can be found here:
http://www.bakascorner.com/2007/01/27/yui-pv-soft-subs/
Who would have thought that being a local TV journalist would be hazardous to your health.
But then, you’re not Peter Silverman.
For the past few months, the CityNews ombudsman has been probing the case of a King St. West optician alleged to be selling counterfeit frames bearing the mark of some famous companies. After receiving numerous complaints about the products, the Silverman Helps team went to the store on Wednesday afternoon with hopes for a peaceful reconciliation.
It didn’t turn out that way.
Continue reading ‘Silverman takes a lickin’ & keeps on tickin’’
As some of you already know, my current JPop it-girl is the cute, lovely and talented YUI. Ever since watching Taiyou no Uta (タイヨウのうた - A Song to the Sun, aka The Midnight Sun) movie, in which she starred, last December, I was completely drawn to her music.
Since then, I’ve spent a lot of my time lurking around YUI-Lover, the first English forum site dedicated to YUI’s music. It is quite a unique forum and has the one of the most friendly member groups.
One particular member, iron_turkey, has a connection to me that I never thought I would find in a relatively small forum like this.
“So what if he’s also from Toronto. Lots of people live in the city.” That is true. But I never would have imagine that he’s now going to the same high school, ACI, that I went to 9 years ago. He also went to the same junior high, SAM, as well. Boy, do I sound old now.
Continue reading ‘ACI Connection from a Forum’
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