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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Japan</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/japan/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>100 Greatest Gangster Films: Sonatine, #82</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24523</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24523#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:05:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>George Anastasia, Glen Macnow</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[100 Greatest Gangster Films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sonatine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Takeshi Kitano]]></category> <category><![CDATA[yakuza]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24523</guid> <description><![CDATA[As the men wait it out at the secluded beach house, they play Frisbee, dress up as geishas, practice sumo wrestling and engage in a bizarre version of rock-paper-scissors in which the winner gets to shoot a beer can off the loser’s head. The point, as far as we can see it, is to show the banality of passing time. But Kitano’s directing style—which verges on slapstick at times—becomes campy and occasionally downright silly. As Owen Gleiberman of <em>Entertainment Weekly</em> wrote, “The picture ricochets from random urban mob hits to horseplay in the sand that wouldn’t have looked out of place on The Monkees.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24523/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Blu-Ray Review &#8211; Battle Royale: The Complete Collection</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24822</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24822#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Battle Royale]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Battle Royale Requiem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beat Takeshi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blu-ray]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blu-Ray DVD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blu-Ray review]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DVD review]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hunger Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kinji Fukasaku]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Koushun Takami]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies Japanese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Bachman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen King]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Takeshi Kitano]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Hunger Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Long Walk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Running Man]]></category> <category><![CDATA[violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[violent movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[We Need To Talk About Kevin]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24822</guid> <description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino proclaims ”My favorite movie of the last 20 years! I wish I had made this movie.” That is as perfect an endorsement as a film distributor could hope to have, especially when selling a film like Battle Royale to a hungry cult audience.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24822/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12731</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12731#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:20:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chronicles of Narnia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fairy Tales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fantasy world]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fringe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guillermo del Toro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hayao Miyazaki]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies animation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies satire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies sci fi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Science Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pan's Labyrinth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Star Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Studio Ghibli]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terry Gilliam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Empire Strikes Back]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tim Burton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Triplets of Belleville]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12731</guid> <description><![CDATA[A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to transport us to places we may never have imagined ourselves. In the history of film there have been countless attempts to take real-world places and performers outside the realm of what has been seen before, and into far-off lands where the amazing, the terrifying, and the marvelous lurk around every corner. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12731/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5743</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5743#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:36:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[imperialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twentieth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Howard Taft]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5743</guid> <description><![CDATA[James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he have much time for William Howard Taft, the gargantuan gourmand, Roosevelt's right-hand man and his successor as president. And after reading <em>The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War</em>, I have the sneaky suspicion that there's not much love lost for George Bush, either.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5743/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>24</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Einstein in Japan</title><link>http://calitreview.com/727</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/727#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:21:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Sari Kawana</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Einstein]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=727</guid> <description><![CDATA[The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on which Einstein had scribbled during a lecture and forgot to erase. Shikanogi Masanobu, a professor in the humanities who sat in on Einstein’s lectures for six days, recalled: “I heard the quiet, serene sounds of his spirit. His thinking progresses steadily, quietly, like the melting of spring snow, without running, while sprinkling the meadow of knowledge with his jewels of mathematical equations.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/727/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World</title><link>http://calitreview.com/396</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/396#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:07:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[India]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/china/396/</guid> <description><![CDATA["Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater shares of foreign economies—and thus gaining significant political and even military leverage over them—at our expense. Power has to be a fair balance among a range of tools, including the military, in order to be used effectively. We’re not doing that now, and I don’t see a good strategy coming out of Washington as to how to do it better."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/396/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>After Dark by Haruki Murakami</title><link>http://calitreview.com/229</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/229#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:28:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>M. Kellner</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/06/25/after-dark-by-haruki-murakami/</guid> <description><![CDATA[This relationship — Mari, plain and studious; Eri, "gorgeous" and shallow — is our first intimation of where <em>After Dark</em> is really looking. Takahashi addresses the question to Mari this way: "I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're both born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you’re both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?" Here is <em>After Dark</em>'s central preoccupation: different lives and different states of being, this side and the other side, within ourselves and between ourselves and other people.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/229/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Grand Tour of Asia &#8211; by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/191</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/191#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 03:49:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//2007/05/27/a-grand-tour-of-asia-by-hania-tallmadge-and-beverley-jackson/</guid> <description><![CDATA[I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia  by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson should be put in. It’s certainly not a novel or narrative non-fiction or even a coffee table book (unless a downsized model). Other than the fact that it has a hardcover and pages inside, I’m not all that sure this one is really a book.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/191/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
