Nisei Week Festival/Little Tokyo/Related

Ren wrote:the girl in the middle look like she from the middle east or india.

It's the nose.

Actually, the winner and the girl in the middle could be sisters or related... They almost look the same...

hey guys, if anyone of you live in NY, there is a japanese event. :D
SUNDAY, April 18:

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa Retrospective

SEVEN SAMURAI Special Event with Newsday Film Critic John Anderson

9 am Hot Bagel Breakfast, 10am New print of 7 Samurai, Discussion to follow

$10.50/ Members,$13.50/Public (call for reservations 631-423-7611 or
www.cinemaartscentre.org)
(regular shows Public $8.50)

Cinema Arts Centre's 6-film celebration of legendary Japanese director Akira
Kurosawa featuring many of his greatest works with a focus on his
collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune continues through May 5. Highlights
include a new print of "Seven Samurai" on Sunday, April 18: there will be a
bagel breakfast at 9 am, the film at 10 am, followed by discussion with
Newsday critic John Anderson. Village Voice critic Michael Atkinson will
present the thriller "High and Low" on Wednesday, April 21 at 8pm.
Kurosawa'a last film "Madadayo" will follow a 10am breakfast on Sunday, May
2

Yojimbo * April 14

Seven Samurai * April 18-19
April 18: Seven Samurai Sunday Schmooze
Film, Discussion, and Hot Bagel Breakfast
Breakfast at 9am, Film at 10am, Discussion to follow
Guest Speaker: John Anderson, Newsday Film Critic

High and Low * April 21 at 8pm
Guest Speaker: Michael Atkinson, Village Voice Film Critic

Rashomon * April 28

Madadayo * May 2-3
May 2: Madadayo Sunday Schmooze
Film, Discussion, and Hot Bagel Breakfast
Breakfast at 10am, Film at 11am, Discussion to follow
Guest Speaker: Vic Skolnick, CAC Co-Director

Throne of Blood * May 5

A marvelous opportunity to experience the many extraordinary films
of Japan's Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998). He bridged the gap between the
auteur and the popular filmmaker and in the process made Japanese cinema a
vital part of the US-International filmgoer's menu from the 1940s to the
1990s. Over that extraordinary half-century career Kurosawa, in opening the
door to Japanese cinema, contributed to the undoing of the crass racial
stereotyping of Japan, its people, and their culture by World War II
propaganda. Akira Kurosawa's films are personal moral tales told as
riveting dramas. They are shaped by an exciting mercurial blending of
dynamic physicality coupled with the most tender trop humane sensibilities;
his characters are trapped and held by the powerful torque of personal
desire pulling against individual and communal social responsibility. Add
to that Kurosawa's alternately quiet and raucous ribald sense of humor and
his use of familiar faces - Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, who, in a
wide range of roles, set the table for a spectacular cinema feast that
gratifies all the senses. How did he do it? Kurosawa melded popular
elements of European-US film genre with Japanese aesthetics and
sensibilities, and in so doing was responsible for drawing attention to the
unique art of Japanese cinema. His artistry belied the old adage that East
is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. With the creation
of a new pristine print of Seven Samurai the Cinema Arts Centre celebrates
the 50th anniversary of one of Akira Kurosawa's most popular masterpieces of
his singular half-century career that began in the 1940s and lasted to the
1990s. The Cinema offers a wonderful mix of some of the highlights of his
awesome filmmaking career: Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of
Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961), High and Low (1963), and Madadayo (1993), his
last film made just prior to his death in 1998 at age 88.


Susan Finkelstein, Publicist
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington, NY 11743
631-423-7611 x14
fax 631-423-5411
[email protected]
www.cinemaartscentre.org

Wow, that looks pretty awesome. I can only hope they have something like that here in SoCal... :D

bmwracer wrote:Wow, that looks pretty awesome. I can only hope they have something like that here in SoCal... :D

Hey bmw, did u check out the cherry blossom festival here in so cal?

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:Hey bmw, did u check out the cherry blossom festival here in so cal?

Nah, I missed it.... Completely forgot about it. :(

But I will be in Little Tokyo for Nisei Week.... I ain't missin' that. :D

bmwracer wrote:
Nah, I missed it.... Completely forgot about it. :(

But I will be in Little Tokyo for Nisei Week.... I ain't missin' that. :D

Thats the one in mid august right...? I gotta check that one out... ;)

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:Thats the one in mid august right...? I gotta check that one out... ;)

Yep. Usually starts the first weekend of August...

Here's the link: http://www.niseiweek.org/

bmwracer wrote:
Yep. Usually starts the first weekend of August...

Here's the link: http://www.niseiweek.org/

Thanks... ill bookmark it this time... :beaten:

Starts August 7, 2004! :applaud:

Here's the link: http://www.niseiweek.org/

Hey, don't forget, Tofu Festival July 24th and 25th. The Power of Tofu!!!! :D

gaijin mark wrote:Hey, don't forget, Tofu Festival July 24th and 25th. The Power of Tofu!!!! :D

Oh yeah. That's just around the corner....! :sweat:

hope its better than last year.. remember last year?... *the horror..the horror...* i mean u needed passes for most of the formal events... and u had to pay for that crappy carshow set up by that one drag website... pshh...

i think the best part was the outside vendors.... maybe...

Here's the artwork for this year's festival.... Nice design. :D

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Niseiweek is fine... my family has helped out before in years past.

But Nihonmachi San Francisco is sooooooo much nicer that LA Little Tokyo.



Cheers,
PCM

you guys get all the cool festivals in LA

I think the SF Nihonmachi is having a faire on August 14th & 15th as well.

http://www.nihonmachistreetfair.org/ :)


Later,
PCM

pcmodem wrote:I think the SF Nihonmachi is having a faire on August 14th & 15th as well.

http://www.nihonmachistreetfair.org/ :)


Later,
PCM

whoa really?!?! Cool! I think I could make it to that :D

Hey, we got something like this on Oahu, called the Honolulu Festival (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/about.html)

Got fire-breathing dragon thingees: http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/images/03fire_dragon.jpg

Archers (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/pages/07Busha_Sai.html)

Taiko drumming (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/pages/01taiko.html)

JAPANESE HULA?!? (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/pages/13hula_jp.html)

MIKOSHI!!!! (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/pages/16ladies_mikoshi.html)

Won't be going on when you get here, eltinator . . . but, I think between me, aho', and the others, uh, we can MAKE OUR OWN!!!!! :nut: :hehe: :beaten:

The Man wrote:Hey, we got something like this on Oahu, called the Honolulu Festival (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/about.html)

Got fire-breathing dragon thingees: http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/images/03fire_dragon.jpg

Archers (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/pages/07Busha_Sai.html)

Taiko drumming (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/pages/01taiko.html)

JAPANESE HULA?!? (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/pages/13hula_jp.html)

MIKOSHI!!!! (http://www.honolulu-festival.com/festival-www/festival-eng/pressimages/pages/16ladies_mikoshi.html)

Won't be going on when you get here, eltinator . . . but, I think between me, aho', and the others, uh, we can MAKE OUR OWN!!!!! :nut: :hehe: :beaten:

doh! oh well, any events going on that week when I'll be there? :D

eltinator wrote:doh! oh well, any events going on that week when I'll be there? :D

Aren't you and Aho going to start some kinda boinking festival?? :hehe: :hehe:

Oh wait, his gal is in town. Oh well. That's the breaks. :(