Kitano's honor

[Jason Gray]

Amazing show -- wish I had taped it. They covered the new
Gojira film and tokusatsu eiga, the Korean cinema boom
(with an amazing sub-segment showing examples of old
Korean seishun eiga that were copied shot-for-shot from
Ishihara Yujiro movies etc.), and the Hollywood/Japan
connection you mentioned (with a longish segment on actor
Mako). 

I think Kitano worded it that in Brother they had scenes
where they shot 
「白人」 (whites).

jg



--- Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> からのメッセージ：
> I flicked on the television to surf and caught the
> last 30 seconds of  
> Takeshi's Konna hazu de!
> (http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/konhazu/). Wished I  
> had caught the whole thing, as it was about Japanese
> stars that made it  
> in Hollywood. Apparently, the occasion for the theme
> was Watanabe Ken  
> being chosen to play a villain in the next Batman
> installment. Here's  
> the description off the webpage:
> 
> 日本人初のハリウッドスターは○○役だった！
> 来年夏、世界が注目するあのシリーズ第５弾「バットマン・
ビギンズ」が公開決定。そこに大抜擢されたのが、我らがサム
ライ・渡辺謙。彼が挑む役は、影の
> 
> 軍団の黒幕。そう、バットマンの○○役なのです。ハリウッ
ドの成功には欠かせない、○○役。しかし、その顔にはもう一
つの意味があったのです。
> 
> Actually, the reason I thought I'd post about this
> was the comment  
> Takeshi ended the show on. Went something like, "You
> know I had this  
> film called Brother that was set in the States. It
> won the grand prize  
> at the Iran International Film Festival. The reason
> is that there are  
> scenes were Japanese shoot Americans.
> 
> As an American, I think this is kinda funny. But if
> I were Iranian, I'd  
> be pissed.
> 
> Markus