After dragging itself out of a dispute over rights to the original story, Oldboy (a Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya that was adapted into a critically acclaimed Korean movie in 2003), is back on track to be made into a Hollywood remake. There are three big-name directors who could become attached to…
DetailsFilep Karma, an advocate for Indonesia’s indigenous Papua group, is currently serving a fifteen-year prison sentence. His crime? Raising the Papuan Morning Star flag. A few years ago, he and two hundred others raised the flag. Police then stormed the crowd, arresting Filep Karma. They reportedly beat and stomped on him while transporting him to…
DetailsNot for the first time, Hollywood is planning to whitewash a movie (or several movies). All You Need is Kill, a Japanese sci-fi novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, and Akira, a 1980s cyberpunk manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, have both been picked up by Hollywood for mass-American consumption. All You Need is Kill will be directed by…
DetailsFollowing several days of tallying votes, results have concluded that Jean Quan won with 50.98% of the votes, compared to her opponent Don Perata’s 49.02%. When inaugurated to office in January, Quan will be the first Asian American woman mayor of a major US city and the first female mayor for Oakland. With the new…
DetailsAlthough a high percentage of Asian-Americans are college educated, a large proportion of the Asian-American population remains unemployed for the long term compared to any other minority groups. The unemployment rate in the Asian-American population is lower than average so it is assumed that unemployment would not last long. The misunderstanding though is that the…
DetailsI saw The Phantom of the Opera last Saturday. Phantom is extremely popular–the Pantages was packed on Saturday– and the longest-running musical on Broadway. As billed in most advertisements, it’s the “haunting love story of a brilliant composer shamed by his disfigurement, and the opera singer he falls in love with.” (Or something like that.)…
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