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“A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
16 July 2025 12:42 PM | No CommentsTime travel is a well-worn trope, but there is a reason that the low-budget “A Samurai in Time” managed to win Best Film honors at the Japan Academy Film Prize.
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Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
29 June 2025 11:58 AM | No CommentsThe Japanese artist, both in physical presence and in spirit, seamlessly crossed over to the worlds of art, fashion, sports and even food.
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Paris 2024: Gymnastics – U.S. women victorious in “Redemption Tour”
29 June 2025 2:46 AM | No CommentsThere should have been no doubt: the U.S. women were the favorites to win the Olympic gold. And yet there was, stemming from what happened in Tokyo.
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Paris 2024: U.S. women hang on to win eighth straight Olympic basketball gold
23 June 2025 11:54 AM | No CommentsThe U.S. women's team held off France, 67-66, at Bercy Arena.
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Paris 2024: Oh Sang-uk wins South Korea’s first Olympic men’s individual fencing sabre gold
22 June 2025 10:11 AM | No CommentsFor all their accolades in the team sabre event, South Korea individual results were here and there. That changed in Paris.
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About Author: Rex Baylon
Posts by Rex Baylon
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Film Review: “Tatara Samurai” (たたら侍)
Rex BaylonPosted on June 1, 2017 | No CommentsYoshinari Nishikori’s "Tatara Samurai" skirts around the delights of a good gonzo violent chambara movie in favor of a meditative drama. -
Graphic Novel Review: Bitch Planet, Vol. 1
Rex BaylonPosted on May 12, 2017 | No CommentsKelly Sue DeConnick’s graphic novel Bitch Planet (2014-ongoing), is an unabashed celebration to the harridan, hellcat vixens of the female sex. -
Graphic Novel Review: Daytripper
Rex BaylonPosted on May 10, 2017 | No CommentsDo any of us really take full advantage of all that life we’ve been given to live? That is the question which plagues the main character in Daytripper. -
Graphic Novel Review: Kill or be Killed, Vol. 1
Rex BaylonPosted on May 9, 2017 | No CommentsEd Brubaker and Sean Phillips' most recent collaboration is a vigilante thriller in the vein of ‘70s classics like Taxi Driver or Death Wish. -
“Apocalypse Child” – 2016 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 20, 2016 | No CommentsUltimately Mario Cornejo's “Apocalypse Child” is a mess, with a plot that goes nowhere and offers very little in the way of emotional connection. -
PARTsPARTs IMSEONOC Fall 2016 – Seoul Fashion Week
Rex BaylonPosted on April 27, 2016 | No CommentsDesigner IMSEONOC of PARTsPARTs closed out the Seoul Fashion Week Fall 2016 collections with a very lively but chaotic outdoor show in the Buam-dong commercial district. -
Graphic Novel Review: “Deadly Class” Vols. 1-3 (Issues 1-16)
Rex BaylonPosted on November 28, 2015 | No CommentsLike the '80s high school milieu it is set in, Deadly Class is a brutal heartbreaking read that will be an essential part of any comic fan's library. -
Graphic Novel Review: “Velvet” Vols. 1-2 (Issues 1-10)
Rex BaylonPosted on November 23, 2015 | No CommentsIt's not such a leap that Ed Brubaker would yet again craft an engaging noirish thriller for his readers in Velvet, an ongoing series that began in 2013. -
Film Review: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s “Sada”
Rex BaylonPosted on November 21, 2015 | No CommentsObayashi's 1998 work makes Sada Abe no longer the subject of prurient interest but possibly one of the most unique female figures in 20th century Japan. -
“Bound for the Fields, the Mountains and the Seacoast”: Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on November 18, 2015 | No CommentsNobuhiko Obayashi’s “Bound for the Fields, the Mountains and the Seacoast” (1986) critically explored the era when Japan began to exponentially militarize.