For Northwest Asian Weekly Ron Chew, executive director of the International Community Health Services Foundation, said his recently completed book on Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, two young cannery union officials murdered in 1981, is the most difficult piece of writing he’s ever done. “It took me 30 years to arrive in an emotional space [...]
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Author Ron Chew tells often forgotten story of murdered Filipino cannery workers
Posted on 02 February 2012.
Posted in Features, Features 06, On the Shelf, Profiles, Vol 31 No 6 | 2/4-2/100 Comments
Vietnamese director brings Murakami’s Norwegian Wood’ to life
Posted on 26 January 2012.
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Director Tran Anh Hung left his native Vietnam in 1975, at the age of 12, after Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces. Until the year 2000, he made all of his films, with permission, inside the unified Vietnam, showing a rich mixture of love for his homeland with [...]
Posted in At the Movies, Vol 31 No 5 | 1/28-2/30 Comments
New “Full Metal Alchemist” installment bold in story and design
Posted on 19 January 2012.
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “All is of one, and one is in all.” So says an alchemist — a fancy term for magician — at the beginning of “Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos,” the second feature derived from the popular Japanese manga and TV anime “Fullmetal Alchemist.” Over the course of [...]
Posted in At the Movies, Vol 31 No 4 | 1/21-1/270 Comments
Stories about artists — NWAW’s monthly must-reads
Posted on 06 January 2012.
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Drawing from Memory” By Allen Say Scholastic Press, 2011 From the time he was a young boy growing up in Japan, Allen Say knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. Inspired by comic books, he drew what he saw, what he imagined, and what he copied from his beloved [...]
Posted in On the Shelf, Vol 31 No 2 | 1/7-1/131 Comment
The 10 best Asian films of the year
Posted on 29 December 2011.
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly 2011 gave us a wide variety of Asian cinema, from sweeping historical epics to smaller, more human-scaled studies of life. Seek out the following films wherever you can. They are ranked in order of excellence.
Posted in At the Movies, Features 01, Vol 31 No 1 | 12/31/11-1/6/120 Comments
‘Outrage’ aptly portrays yakuza, but too gory
Posted on 15 December 2011.
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Takeshi Kitano’s new film “Outrage” opens with the camera panning slowly across a group of men slouching against luxury cars, some fanning themselves in the heat. They are the yakuza promised in the film’s advance publicity, but they are not stylish. They do not immediately look dangerous. The filmmaker [...]
Posted in At the Movies, Vol 30 No 51 | 12/17-12/230 Comments
Old ways meet new, perserving culture — NWAW’s November must-reads
Posted on 23 November 2011.
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “How to Be an American Housewife” By Margaret Dilloway Berkley Books, 2010 Growing up, Shoko was very close with her brother Taro. But when she got older and decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan after the end of World War II, Taro was not happy about [...]
Posted in On the Shelf, Vol 30 No 48 | 11/26-12/20 Comments
Stories about Asians who are gay — NWAW’s October must-reads
Posted on 28 October 2011.
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Leche” By R. Zamora Linmark Coffee House Press, 2011 After 13 years of living in the United States, Vicente De Los Reyes is returning home. Born in the Philippines, Vicente, or Vince, came to Hawaii when he was only 10 years old. He returns after winning a contest and [...]
Posted in On the Shelf, Vol 30 No 44 | 10/29-11/40 Comments
SHELF: NWAW’s September must-reads
Posted on 30 September 2011.
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Hot, Hot Roti for Dadda-ji” Written by F. Zia, Illustrated by Ken Min Lee & Low Books, 2011 Whenever Aneel’s grandparents visit, they tell him stories about their lives growing up in an Indian village. During one particular visit, Aneel’s grandfather, Dadda-ji, tells him that when he was a [...]
Posted in On the Shelf, Vol 30 No 40 | 10/1-10/70 Comments
Ip Man: a legend shamefully overlooked
Posted on 15 September 2011.
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Ip Man (1893–1972) was a legendary Chinese marital artist whose students included a young Bruce Lee. Several films have been based on his amazing life. This newest one, “The Legend is Born: Ip Man,” is the first to offer an account — fictionalized, but derived loosely from real [...]
Posted in At the Movies, Vol 30 No 38 | 9/17-9/231 Comment
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