THE NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2008 from June 2-July 6 at the IFC Center and the Japan Society.
SUBWAY CINEMA presents THE NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2008 from June 2-July 6 at the IFC Center and the Japan Society. It's seventeen days of new films from Takashi Miike, Johnnie To, Hur Jin-Ho, Koji Wakamatsu and Shinji Aoyama. In addition, this year the lineup includes the documentary YASUKUNI and films from Indonesia (KALA ) and Vietnam (THE REBEL ).
Films will be screened the first fourteen days at the IFC Center (323 Sixth Ave, between 3rd and 4th Streets) and the final four days at the Japan Society (333 East 47th St., between 1st and 2nd Aves) during the co-presentation of several films as part of their JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Films (which runs from July 2-13).
ACCURACY OF DEATH (Japan, 2008) Set in 1988, 2008 and the near future, Takeshi Kaneshiro plays the Grim Reaper who comes to Earth with a talking dog to evaluate the lives of potential dead people in this comedy.
ADRIFT IN TOKYO (Japan, 2007) A scruffy law school student (Joe Odagiri,the Johnny Depp of Japan) is deep in hock to a thuggish, middle-aged debt collector who offers to forgive what he owes if the kid accompanies him on long walks through Tokyo.
ALWAYS 2: SUNSET ON THIRD STREET (Japan, 2007) one of Japan's biggest hits, ALWAYS: SUNSET ON THIRD STREET rocked the New York Asian Film Festival back in 2006 and now the sequel is back to deliver even more mid-century melodrama about a...
The Bruce Lee Collectors Exhibit, The Beginning of a Legend, the Story of a Man opens June 26th, 2003!
SEATTLE, WA -
THE BRUCE LEE
COLLECTORS EXHIBIT 2003
The Beginning
of a Legend,
the Story of a Man
This exciting exhibit opens June 26, 2003 and runs through December 2003.
The exhibit will be open Tuesday-Sunday (closed Mondays) from 10am-8pm at 519 6th Ave. S. (S. King and 6th Ave. S. - the former Uwajimaya building) in Seattles International District. Admission is $9 general, $5 students, seniors (62 years & older), and groups of ten or more, free for ages 5 & under.
The exhibits opening date coordinates with the official Bruce Lee Convention on July 12-13 in Burbank, California (www.bruceleeconvention.com).
This Seattle exhibit devoted to martial arts legend Bruce Lee will be on display exclusively in Washington state this year, marking the 30th anniversary of his death.
The late movie actor lived in Seattle for several years before making it big in landmark martial arts films such as Enter the Dragon and Fists of Fury. Lee opened his first martial arts studio in the Seattle's International District. He attended the University of Washington where he was a philosophy student. His first break was starring as Kato in the television show, The Green Hornet.
The exhibit will feature hundreds of Bruce Lee memorabilia, including his jabbing machine, an original pair of nunchaku, Green Hornet items, personal clothing as well as letters and drawings. The memorabilia is...
Astronaut Leroy Chiao's Postcards from Space
Aboard the Station, the Expedition 10 crew, Commander and NASA Station Science Officer Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, are beginning a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station that will include two spacewalks and preparations for the return of Space Shuttle flights. Expedition 10 is scheduled to return to Earth on April 25, 2005.
Chiao and Sharipov will have light duty for the next three days as they rest after completing a busy handover period. For the past week, they have been learning about Station operations from Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke, the two men who called the ship home since April. Padalka and Fincke briefed Chiao and Sharipov on day-to-day operations and gave them hands-on opportunities at Station maintenance: Sharipov joined Padalka in completing repairs to the Elektron oxygen-generating system, and Chiao helped Fincke with the maintenance on the U.S. spacesuits. During his time aboard, Shargin completed a program of scientific experiments.
Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke returned to Earth today, after traveling more than 78 million miles aboard the International Space Station.
Returning with them was Russian Space Forces Test Cosmonaut Yuri Shargin, who had spent eight days aboard the orbiting complex conducting research.
After a flawless descent by the ISS Soyuz 8 spacecraft, Padalka, Fincke and...
Asian American International Film Festival '08, July 1019, 2008
This year's lineup for the Asian American International Film Festival '08 (AAIFF), presented by Asian Cinevision with Asia Society and sponsored by Toyota Matrix includes one world premiere, two U.S. premieres, six East Coast premieres, and seven New York premieres. Debuting a new interdisciplinary program in 2008, Asian CineVision also presents New Landscapes: Media and Its Adaptations, a series of panels examining issues relevant to Asia and Asian diasporas. Representing the latest and best in Asian and Asian American filmmaking, AAIFF will run from July 1019, 2008, at the Asia Society (725 Park Avenue at 70th Street).
The Festival opens on Thursday, July 10 at 7:30PM with PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA, marking acclaimed director Wayne Wangs return to indie filmmaking. Making its East Coast debut at AAIFF, PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA stars newcomer Li Ling in a stunning performance as Sasha, a pregnant teenager who travels to San Francisco from Omaha seeking an abortion. Shot through the kinetic lens of cinematographer and co-director Richard Wong, Sasha's vanity and recklessness is portrayed with great intimacy, but she remains emotionally aloof and unpredictable. For director Wang, this paradox is the hallmark of a new generation of post-Tiananmen Square Chinese youthendlessly self-documenting with cell phones and computers, while embracing a sense of historical amnesia and emotional instability. Based on a short story...
It's been nine years since my mom died and not a day goes by that I don't miss her.
I celebrate the memory of my mother by posting the A. Magazine article I wrote shortly after her death highlighting her achievements as an Asian American Union activist.
When the paramedics brought my mother to University of California Medical Center on October 2 with a brain aneurysm, the doctors said she wouldn't make it through the night. They didn't know my mother. She hung on while my sister Tami and I rushed from New York to the hospital, and we were able to hold her hands when she finally slipped away. That was our mom, Beverly Umehara--a woman warrior holding court even in the last hours of her 53 years of life.
Born in San Francisco on December 18, 1945, Bev--as her friends called her--grew up in Chinatown. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about her was that her calling came late in life at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hard working secretary and mother of four into a labor activist, a respected union leader and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color and for all Asian Americans.
I was fortunate enough to sit down with my mother in 1998, to hear her share the roots of her activist drive. "In 1992, as secretary and assistant to the head of the Calfornia Labor Federation, I attended a reception announcing the first organization of Asian American trade unionists--the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO," she said. "There was a...