Tokyo Elevator Girl

bmwracer wrote:
Part of G-dubya's "Shoock and Awe" tactics?? :hehe:

LOL. :applaud:


OR as I like to refer to it rather than "Shock and Awe" ..."Half-cocked & Flawed"

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Tu_triky wrote:i thought it was a screen capture from video you possess...

I wish. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
I wish. :sweat:

read an article about rie miyzawa a while back stating that she made 400 Million Yen when she was 18....that's a little under 4 million dollars...that's astronomically high by japanese standards for someone so young...especially back then.

Rie Miyazawa - from Pinup to Respected Artist


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When her nude photo collection "Santa Fe" was published in 1991, it was hailed by men all over Asia, but few of them would have taken Rie Miyazawa seriously as a performer. Fifteen years later, Miyazawa has long left the status of what the Japanese call an gidolh behind and has won both the Kinema Junpo award for best actress and a Blue Ribbon Award for her role in "The Face Of Jizo". It is only now, with her new film "Tony Takitani" debuting in Korea on Thursday, that Koreans will get a chance to appreciate her acting talent.

"Tony Takitani" is a film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's 1990 short story of the same name. The number of characters that appear in the film is extremely limited. Japan's top monologue artist Ogata Issei and Miyazawa dominate the screen. It's a story of a man, Tony Takitani, who after spending much of his life in solitude falls in love with Miss A, but after A -- a shopping addict -- dies, he tries to find a woman that can replace her. Miyazawa plays both Miss A and Miss B, the woman Tony searches for to replace his dead wife. Miyazawa plays both A and B, the woman Tony hopes will step into Afs shoes.

The film is directed by Jun Ichikawa. Better known as a director of commercials, having bagged several Grand Prizes at the Cannes International Advertising festival, Ichikawa has also acquired a reputation for bringing literature to the screen, notably the novels of Banana Yoshimoto. "I've always wanted to appear in an Ichikawa production, so I begged him each time we met,h Myazawa says. gI was really happy to be offered a part at last."

The film is entirely set on a sound stage built on the outskirts of Yokohama. Miyazawa found the experience liberating.

It won the Special Jury Prize at last year's Locarno Film Festival, a sort of silver medal there, as well as the International Federation of Film Critics and Junior Jury awards. It seems Locarno was won over by the film's attempt to find a middle ground between film and theater and the bravura performance of its stars. "I don't believe I've ever been in a film like it,h Miyazawa enthuses.

Miyazawa also won a best actress award at the 2001 Moscow Film Festival for her role in "Peony Pavilion." The Kinema Junpo award was for best actress for "The Twilight Samurai" in 2002, and Japan's film festivals have showered her with acting awards, in near-universal recognition that the young provocateur had transformed herself into a leading actress. She is currently shooting "Hana yori mo naho," playing a woman who falls in love with a Samurai in a historical drama directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, director of "Nobody Knows".

Uh, did you write this or is it from a magazine/newspaper? :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:Uh, did you write this or is it from a magazine/newspaper? :headscratch:

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200509/200509210009.html

Tu_triky wrote:http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200509/200509210009.html

Interesting that the article is from a Korean news magazine...

bmwracer wrote:
Interesting that the article is from a Korean news magazine...

that's what i pondered as well...i guess because tony takatani just opened in korea...

wassup, man...sounds like you had a hard day at work....hope you can decompress a lil' now that your on this board....take care...don't let the buggers get to you...too much. it'll drive ya :nut:

Tu_triky wrote:that's what i pondered as well...i guess because tony takatani just opened in korea...

Ah, that's why...

wassup, man...sounds like you had a hard day at work....hope you can decompress a lil' now that your on this board....take care...don't let the buggers get to you...too much. it'll drive ya :nut:

These folks at work are really pushing my buttons this week and I'm pushing back a lot harder.

I'm too old to put up with continual management bullshit.

bmwracer wrote:
These folks at work are really pushing my buttons this week and I'm pushing back a lot harder.

I'm too old to put up with continual management bullshit.

well understood. enjoy this diversion for a while then :) and go watch tony takatani...starring the original elevator girl

Tu_triky wrote:

well understood. enjoy this diversion for a while then :) and go watch tony takatani...starring the original elevator girl

tony takatani nominated for Sundance Film Festival 2005..dayem this film is really rackin up the int'l accolades...

i enjoyed it!

Tu_triky wrote:tony takatani nominated for Sundance Film Festival 2005..dayem this film is really rackin up the int'l accolades...

Cool. :thumbsup:

bmwracer wrote:
Cool. :thumbsup:

yeah. don't think it's availble on disc yet...i've been searching with no success...a bit premature on my part perhaps...

Tu_triky wrote:yeah. don't think it's availble on disc yet...i've been searching with no success...a bit premature on my part perhaps...

Yeah, it's a little soon.

Maybe the end of the year(?)...

bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, it's a little soon.

Maybe the end of the year(?)...

i was thinking because it premiered in japan a while ago....it might be available...but your speculation sounds more on target.

Tu_triky wrote:i was thinking because it premiered in japan a while ago....it might be available...but your speculation sounds more on target.

I don't know what your thoughts are about bootlegs, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it up for sale on eBay...

bmwracer wrote:
I don't know what your thoughts are about bootlegs, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it up for sale on eBay...

i'm not too prudish....since i've seen the film i can wait....but things spring up on the web quicker than weeds in a garden...

Tu_triky wrote:i'm not too prudish....since i've seen the film i can wait....but things spring up on the web quicker than weeds in a garden...

If Tony Takitani has been released on DVD in Japan, I'd bet even money that it'll be on eBay... With subs. ;)

I bought a subbed Gun Crazy on eBay a year before the legit U.S. release ever showed up... Same for Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei)...