Posted on 02 February 2012. Tags: 2012, Ron Chew, Vol 31 No 6 | February 4 - February 10
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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Posted in Features, Features 06, On the Shelf, Profiles, Vol 31 No 6 | 2/4-2/10
Posted on 26 January 2012. Tags: 2012, Vol 31 No 5 | January 28 - February 3
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 [...]
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Posted in At the Movies, Vol 31 No 5 | 1/28-2/3
Posted on 19 January 2012. Tags: 2012, Full Metal Alchemist, Vol 31 No 4 | January 21 - January 27
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 [...]
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Posted in At the Movies, Vol 31 No 4 | 1/21-1/27
Posted on 06 January 2012. Tags: 2012, A Girl Named Faithful Plum, Allen Say, Drawing from Memory, Ed Young, Richard Bernstein, The House Baba Built, Vol 31 No 2 | January 7 - January 13
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 [...]
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Posted in On the Shelf, Vol 31 No 2 | 1/7-1/13
Posted on 29 December 2011. Tags: 2012, Vol 31 No 1 | December 31 - January 6
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.
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Posted in At the Movies, Features 01, Vol 31 No 1 | 12/31/11-1/6/12
Posted on 15 December 2011. Tags: 2011, Outrage, Vol 30 No 51 | December 17 - December 23
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 [...]
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Posted in At the Movies, Vol 30 No 51 | 12/17-12/23
Posted on 23 November 2011. Tags: 2011, Berkley Books, Bharati Mukherjee, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, How to be an American Housewife, Lee & Low Books, Margaret Dilloway, Miss New India, Naomi C. Rose, Tashi and the Tibetan Flower Cure, Vol 30 No 48 | November 26 - December 2
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 [...]
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Posted in On the Shelf, Vol 30 No 48 | 11/26-12/2
Posted on 28 October 2011. Tags: 2011, Angela Yuan, Aska Mochizuki, Christopher Yuan, Leche, Out of a Far Country, R. Zamora Linmark, Spinning Tropics, Vol 30 No 44 | October 29 - November 4
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 [...]
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Posted in On the Shelf, Vol 30 No 44 | 10/29-11/4
Posted on 30 September 2011. Tags: 2011, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream, F. Zia, Hot Hot Roti for Dadda-ji, Jenny Han, Julia Kuo, Ken Min, Vol 30 No 40 | October 1 - October 7
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 [...]
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Posted in On the Shelf, Vol 30 No 40 | 10/1-10/7
Posted on 15 September 2011. Tags: 2011, Ip Man, Vol 30 No 38 | September 17 - September 23
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 [...]
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Posted in At the Movies, Vol 30 No 38 | 9/17-9/23