Posted on 11/12/2003 5:11:10 PM PST by mountaineer
It all comes down to sexuality. If Takai wasn't gay and hadn't gotten type-cast like all the Star Trek actors, he might have worked more. He's very odd in person.
Of course, the people who constantly claim victim status over "internment", rarely remind people it was that Democrat icon, FDR who called for it. And it was Truman who dropped the big bombs on Japan. Imagine if a GOP prez had done it.
I saw period films, cop films, gangster films, war films, romance films, spy films, horror films, high school comedies, and films that crossed genres. The product that America has seen fit to release is but a small subgenre of what was released over there (and there has been a strong reluctance to releasing these films in America in their original form; Disney is particularly proud of dubbing these films).
Once you get past Hollywood's stereotype of what is a Hong Kong film, consider just how many primarily asian cast shows there have been on tv. We can all rattle of lists of black cast/themed shows, hispanic targeted shows, etc. Asians have largely been ignored (Sammy Hung, a sometimes acting partner of Jackie Chan had a series recently; more kung fu).
Heck, just what is an "Asian"? People from Japan, Malaysia, the Phillipines, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea (North and South), Vietnam, etc. all have different languages/dialects and cultures (and there aren't always good relations between these nationalities).
I guess it is the same demographic "unity" that ties people from Columbia to people from Spain.
The "secret" files on who really killed JFK. What a hillbilly.
He was making an appearance to discuss the movie Prisoners Of The Sun where he played a Japanese Vice-Admiral in WWII. This movie dealt with the war attrocities committed by the Japanese in WWII. He's aware of what was at stake.
The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. Cooper is the chief prosecutor. In a mass grave, the bodies of 300 executed servicemen have been unearthed. Cooper assumes that the massacre was ordered by Baron Takahashi, Japanese commander on Ambon. But the one potential witness has gone mad and is due to be shipped back to Australia. No captured airmen were found alive on the island at all, not even the four-man crew of a reconnaissance plane shot down late in the War. Takahashi is returned to the island in the custody of an American officer, Maj. Beckett. But there is little evidence with which to prosecute the Baron. Cooper thinks he could make a case for the missing airmen if only their bodies could be located. And why does Maj. Beckett appear interested in not seeing Takahashi convicted? Cooper gets a break when Lt. Tanaka, a communications officer and a Christian, surrenders himself...Summary written by David Stanko
On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release.
Summary written by Anthony Hughes
I'm reminded of her every time I see Dennis Kucinich. I don't know why ...
Considering he didn't attend classes at Oxford (too busy protesting the war and meeting with the Soviets, apparently), I'm speculating he had Chelsea pick up a few books at the Oxford bookstore while she was there, so he could pretend they were his. As for his old law books - who cares? Mine sat in my mother's attic for years until she finally asked me to get rid of them, whereupon I tossed them in the closest available dumpster.
Interesting..
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