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[11 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 2 views]
The Depiction Of Women In The Classical Japanese Cinema Of Ozu and Mizoguchi.

This paper briefly explores the depiction of Japanese female central characters in
the classical cinema of Ozu and Mizoguchi and the reasons surrounding why
these directors chose to do use women as protagonists.

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[8 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 297 views]
Summer Wars Movie Review

Summer Wars is the story is about a young high school student, Kenji Koiso, a math genius who has just started his summer break and is asked by his secret crush, and older student, Natsuki Shinohara, to go with her to her family home for a summer job, he agrees to it immediately, only finding out later that his “summer job” requires him to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancée. As Kenji tried his best to keep up with Natsuki’s back stories of himself, he receives a strange message on his “keitai” (which are mobile phones of Japan) asking him to solve a ridiculously long mathematical problem and of course, being a math genius, he cannot resist solving it. In doing so, he unleashes something terrible in the Internet world of OZ.

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[7 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 170 views]
Red Cliff Part 1 Movie Review

Directed by John Woo, screenplay written by John Woo, Chen Han and Sheng Heyu based on the historical records of the Three Kingdoms era, Records of Three Kingdoms, written by the historian of Jin Dynasty, Chen Shou (A.D.233–297).

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[29 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 246 views]
Speedy Scandal

What happens if a seven-year-old boy has a mother who is only twenty-two? What happens if he has a grandfather in his mid-thirties? SCANDALOUS! Speedy Scandal is a Korean movie directed by Kang Hyeong-Cheol and was released in the year 2008.

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[23 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 390 views]
China’s 5th and 6th Generation:  Why Li Yang might be overshadowed by Zhang Yimou

The works of the 5th generation of film makers have received so much critical acclaim worldwide – and at home. This essay will point out some factors why the films of the younger generation, the 6th generation, might find it tough trying to make a mark. Will Li Yang achieve the same success as Zhang Yimou has? Certain factors are crucial in determining the chances, for example, Film Style, Time, and Money.