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JD Linville In “Dreams on Fire” writer-director Phillipe McKie marks his feature debut with a heady vision of the Japanese urban dance scene and one woman’s journey to find her place in it.Equipped with little more than her passion for dance, Yume (Bambi Naka) leaves an unsupportive home life to make her way in the Tokyo underground. McKie paints a spacious and vivid portrait of the artist’s journey, allowing moments of silence to balance the chaos.“Dreams on Fire” plays out on the one hand as
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Celtic star Kyogo Furuhashi. A video circulating on social media over the weekend showed individuals on board an Ibrox supporters' bus singing vile songs and aiming offensive gestures at Japanese forward Furuhashi.
won the individual all-around title at the Tokyo Olympics. With her win, Lee became the first Asian American all-around champion ever.Moua is repped by Dave Brenner at the Creative Talent Company.
Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba, a martial artist and actor known for appearing in various films and television series, has died at 82. The star's rep confirmed to Fox News that Chiba died of COVID-19 complications on Wednesday in a hospital outside of Tokyo.
Japan as Shinichi Chiba, died late Thursday, Tokyo-based Astraia, his management office, said in a statement Friday.Japanese media said had been hospitalized near Tokyo with COVID-19 and died from pneumonia.Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, the anguished so-called “anti-heroes” trying to survive in a violent world.
Variety reported that it had received confirmation of the news from Chiba’s agent. With an acting career beginning in the 1960s with a string of roles in Japanese martial arts films and TV shows, Chiba became widely known in the west after being name-checked in True Romance, the 1993 thriller written by Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.
The martial arts and movie communities are mourning the death of Sonny Chiba.
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Sonny Chiba was a Japanese martial artist and actor known for roles in the “Kill Bill” series and “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”Chiba was a gymnast in his youth, learning martial arts while in college. He eventually became a fourth-degree black belt in karate as well as mastering several other martial arts styles.
Bally Sports Detroit said Wednesday that it has suspended Detroit Tigers TV commentator and Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Morris indefinitely in the wake of a comment he made about Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani during network’s broadcast of the Angeles-Tigers game Tuesday night.
Star Wars: Visions has been released – check it out below.Visions is an anthology series which will feature seven different stories from leading Japanese anime studios.
Disney+ dropped two trailers — one dubbed in English, the other in Japanese — for its upcoming “Star Wars: Visions” series on Tuesday, and the sneak peek shows a familiar universe reimagined like never before. The animated series is formatted as an anthology of fresh tales styled in Japanese anime and produced by seven separate genre studios. Set to premiere on Sept.
Disney+ has released the trailer and unveiled the Japanese and English dub voice cast for Star Wars: Visions from Lucasfilm, its upcoming anthology series comprised of short films, centered on the Star Wars universe. The series launches September 22 on Disney+. You can watch the trailer above.
Star Wars galaxy to this inspired new series,” James Waugh, executive producer and Lucasfilm Vice President, Franchise Content & Strategy, said in a statement.
The new trailer for Star Wars: Visions is here!
Jordan Moreau A galaxy far, far away just got even bigger.The “Star Wars” universe gets the anime treatment in the first trailer for the animated anthology series “Star Wars: Visions” on Disney Plus.The series showcases nine original stories from seven Japanese anime studios.