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Just downloaded the latest from LA band, The Bird and The Bee. I am a little behind as this album was release in January, but better late than never. This track is called “Love Letter to Japan.” Enjoy!

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For those of you following the adaptation of Dragonball Evolution, here is nice shot of the main actors at the opening at the Nippon Budokan on Tuesday night. What a nice looking group. From left to right they are: Joon Park, Jamie Chung, Eriko Tamura, Chow Yun-Fat, Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, James Marsters, Megumi Seki and director [...]

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Just learned of the upcoming film - Tokyo. It looks really interesting on a number of levels. First, because it has three short stories directed by fantastic artists (see below); second, because the entire question it raises “whether we shape cities, or if cities shape us” is the same question first raised by the 1980’s [...]

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From the Los Angeles Times 

‘A Song for Ourselves,’ about Chris Iijima, will screen in Little Tokyo.
By Robert Ito
February 28, 2009
Documentary filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura first heard about Chris Iijima while listening to his parents talk about “the movement.” That movement was something that had happened eons ago, in the 1970s, a time when young Asian Americans [...]

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