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Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
21 August 2022

Book Review: The Good German of Nanking (1998) by John Rabe, edited by Erwin Wickert, *****

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Synopsis The personal journals of German businessman John Rabe describe the infamous 1937 Japanese siege of Nanking and his efforts to prote...
07 August 2021

Film review: Emperor (2012) by Peter Webber, *****

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Synopsys Brigadier-General Bonner Fellers ( Matthew Fox ) is sent to Japan as a part of the occupation force. He is tasked with arresting J...
02 April 2021

A conversation about China

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- Hi I am from Indochina. I'd like to think what you think of China. - Hi I'm from Europe, I'd be interested in your views too, ...
21 May 2020

Film review: Naked Island (1960), by Kaneto Shindo, ****

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Synopsis Filmed on the virtually deserted Setonaikai archipelago in south-east Japan, Naked Island was made in the words of its director...
02 May 2020

Book review: Cixi (2013) by Jung Chang, ***

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Synopsys In this groundbreaking biography , Jung Chang  vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese...
01 March 2020

Film review: Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) by Scott Hicks ****

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Synopsys Scott Hicks' screen adaptation of David Guterson's best-selling novel. On San Pietro Island, shortly after the end of ...
04 February 2019

Peleliu island, Republic of Palau

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My third time on this small island whose sand is soaked with history. Today for the first time with my wife. In between dives we took a walk...
29 January 2019

Iro wreck dives, Palau

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The " Iro " was not a "maru", like most wrecks in the Chuuk lagoon, ie it was not a merchant transport converted to mili...
21 August 2018

Japanese dinner

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The most memorable thing from this easy day of work in my hotel (it was mostly raining) is dinner at YAKINIQUEST, a Japanese restaurant on C...
16 August 2017

Prigioni, sommergibili e pentole di ferro nei dintorni di Dalian

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Oggi il nostro amico Dong ci porta in giro per i dintorni di Dalian, andremo a visitare due siti molto speciali, inusuali per un turista: un...
18 November 2016

Film review: Tokyo Sonata (2008) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, ****

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Synopsis Kiyoshi Kurosawa the hugely acclaimed Japanese director famous for his groundbreaking, existential horror films such as Cure ...
04 October 2015

Sake Master Class, Londra

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Confesso che mi ero iscritto alla Master Class sul sake organizzata dall’ Associazione Italiana Sommelier a Londra  con un misto di cur...
12 August 2015

Film Review: Alone Across the Pacific (1963) by Kon Ichikawa, *****

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Synopsis A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor's Reveng...
11 August 2015

Film review: Three times (2005) di Hou Hsiao Hsien, ***

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Taipei temple Sinossi Un film diviso in tre episodi in cui si riflette sulla impossibilita' dell'amore. 1911, Dadaocheng. i...
04 August 2013

Book review: Ah ku and Karayuki San: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870-1940 (1993), by James Francis Warren, *****

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Synopsis Among the many groups of foreign workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in ...
12 June 2013

Film review: Flags of our Fathers (2006) by Clint Eastwood, ****

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testo italiano di seguito Synopsis The film is about a photograph by James Rosenthal , one of the most famous war pictures of all time...