Tag: Japanese

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#POCtober: Vice.com Spoke to Takashi Miike About His Bonkers Yakuza Vampire Movie

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Akira Kurosawa Painted the Storyboards For Scenes in His Epic Films: Compare Canvas to Celluloid

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Click here to read at Openculture.com.

samurai7zy1Anime TV series version of renowned director Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai”

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Unique Video Game Teaches About Japanese Culture, Launches Kickstarter Campaign

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Read about A Credible Tale of Yokai, Robots & the Lunar Tourist at Indiegames.com

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Famed Animator Hayao Miyazaki to Build Island Retreat for Kids

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Go to Mentalfloss.com to read about it.

Building starts in 2016 with a target completion date of 2018.

Hayao_MiyazakiFilmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is co-founder of Japan’s famous Studio Ghibli

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What Miyamoto Wants From Game Developers

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Click here to read at Gamasutra.com.

Shigeru Miyamoto has helped create include the Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, F-Zero, Pikmin, and Wii series.

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A Downpour of Fish: Murakami on Stage

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Read at the New York Review of Books.

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Novelist Haruki Murakami
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What Japanese Manga Artists Wish You’d Ask Them

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Read at io9.com.

Junko Mizuno Junko Mizuno’s “Hansel and Gretel”

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Haruki Murakami’s New Essay on How a Baseball Game Launched His Writing Career

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Read at Openculture.com.

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Cover of Haruki Murakami’s collection of novellas “Hear the Wind Sing” and “Pinball, 1973”

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Why People Were Addicted to Their Tamagotchis

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Read about it at Vice.com.

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Yokoi Remembers Nintendo’s Struggle to Understand His Game Boy

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Read at Gamasutra.com.

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