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May Kamaka wins the Miss Chinatown Hawaii 2026 Pageant
09 October 2025 12:52 PM | No CommentsKamaka will now represent the neighborhood at the Miss Hawaii state pageant.
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M+ host of Guo Pei’s first major fashion exhibition in East Asia
07 October 2025 6:25 AM | No CommentsThe haute couture designer celebrated her first major solo fashion exhibition, continuing to build on the fame of her yellow gown worn by Rihanna at the 2015 Met Gala.
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Photos: G-STAR “Anatomic Denim” F/W 2025 collection & Denim Gorilla
05 October 2025 12:38 AM | No CommentsFor its "Anatomic Denim" collection, G-STAR came up with three products: a visual campaign, three denim product lines, and an art gorilla sculpture.
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MLB: Dodgers 7, Reds 0 (Aug. 25, 2025) – Shohei tutors Teoscar?
03 October 2025 1:20 AM | No CommentsBased on the video and photos...was Shohei giving Teoscar some pointers on how to play right field?
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MLB: Dodgers 7, Reds 0 (Aug. 25, 2025) – V of BTS throws opening pitch
01 October 2025 11:56 AM | No CommentsOne can be forgiven for wondering why the atmosphere at Dodger Stadium resembled a BTS concert instead of a home game against the Cincinnati Reds.
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Film Archive
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Review: Nobuhiro Yamashita’s “Matsugane Potshot Affair”
Christopher BournePosted on June 29, 2012 | No Comments"Matsugane Potshot Affair" is a dark comedy following the decidedly odd events and inhabitants of a small town and the happenings of a particular winter. -
Review: Kazuo Kuroki’s “The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya”
Christopher BournePosted on June 23, 2012 | No Comments"The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya" is a quiet, gently humorous, and poignant World War II-set story that evokes the home dramas that were a specialty of Ozu. -
Film Review: Takashi Miike’s “Dead or Alive”
Christopher BournePosted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis yakuza thriller by Japanese cult director Takashi Miike is a letter-perfect illustration of the saying, "Nothing succeeds like excess." -
Review: Naomi Kawase’s “The Mourning Forest”
Christopher BournePosted on June 8, 2012 | No Comments"The Mourning Forest" expresses a very animist sensibility, in that the natural world, and associated sounds and space, are given great priority. -
![Leave it to Johnnie To and his great collaborator Wai Ka-fai to breathe new life into that most shopworn and exhausted of genres: the police detective story. Mad Detective was a […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review: Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s “Mad Detective”")
Review: Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s “Mad Detective”
Christopher BournePosted on June 1, 2012 | No CommentsLeave it to Johnnie To and his great collaborator Wai Ka-fai to breathe new life into that most shopworn and exhausted of genres: the police detective story. Mad Detective was a […] -
Review: Yoshihiro Nishimura’s “Tokyo Gore Police”
Christopher BournePosted on May 25, 2012 | No CommentsAs the title promises, in "Tokyo Gore Police" there is no chance that you will instead be confronted with, say, a sensitive Merchant Ivory-type romance. -
![A Michael Haneke film on acid, Kim Jin-won’s The Butcher is a relentless 75-minute assault on the senses. The premise is as simple as it is brutal: a group […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/butcher01-115x115.jpg "Review: Kim Jin-won’s “The Butcher”")
Review: Kim Jin-won’s “The Butcher”
Christopher BournePosted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsA Michael Haneke film on acid, Kim Jin-won’s The Butcher is a relentless 75-minute assault on the senses. The premise is as simple as it is brutal: a group […] -
DPRK Film Review: Kim Kil-in’s “Hong Kil Dong”
Christopher BournePosted on May 11, 2012 | No Comments"Hong Kil Dong" is a rather diverting, if a little creaky, North Korean martial-arts action flick surprisingly free of overt ideological content. -
Review: Jessica Oreck’s “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo”
Christopher BournePosted on May 4, 2012 | No Comments"Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo" is not a cult science-fiction film, but an impressionistic, non-linear documentary exploring Japan’s obsession with insects. -
![Lee Joon-ik’s filmography includes both period films (Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield, The King and the Clown, Battlefield Heroes) and contemporary music-themed films (Radio Star, The Happy Life). […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Sunny+5-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “Sunny”")
Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “Sunny”
Christopher BournePosted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsLee Joon-ik’s filmography includes both period films (Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield, The King and the Clown, Battlefield Heroes) and contemporary music-themed films (Radio Star, The Happy Life). […]