http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/a4481e807db685f04425d3b439a66932.jpg Yahoo has the trailer for Takashi Shimizu's remake of "Ju-on" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Pic above shows both on set. Unlike "Ring", this remake is still set in Japan Trailer for The Gru...

"Stop belitting Anime?" That's like saying 'stop making fun of the wifebeaters on 'Cops'" They both just NEED to be ridiculed. :P I thought that was a great comment too. Anime fans do tend to get a tad over-protective. But there is money in them thar hills...US anime conventions are ...

Null was kind enough to send to my GOL account and, while it ended up in spam, it was easy to spot. I think Yahoo have done the same with their filters but, with their new policy, spam isn't a capacity problem any more...

BTW, Thanks Null.

Don't know which FG posted this on a film site but he sounds connected.... Tonight, in the upscale Ginza district of Tokyo, in a small concert hall on the fifth floor of the Yamaha building, there was an exclusive press screening for Katsuhiro Otomo's highly-anticipated Steamboy. I was lucky enough ...

GE Capital From GE Annual Report: A corps of GE Capital business development people had been on the ground in Japan and were ready with acquisition recommendations in 1998 and early 1999 — when the time came for big moves. The acquisitions of Koei Credit and the consumer finance business of Lake Co...

What are Google's plans for scanning Gmail message text to better target adverts?
Didn't like the sound of that...

Just caught this on animal cruelty in films That said, how should we respond to the Korean film "Old Boy," which played at Cannes and had a scene where a live octopus was eaten by one of the characters. In his acceptance speech, the film's director thanked four octopi who died in the makin...

More for the Eisner file from the L.A. Times An internal study concluded last year that Disney's ABC Family Channel was worth about $2 billion less than the $5.3 billion that Michael Eisner agreed to buy it for in 2001 , the Los Angeles Times disclosed today (Tuesday). (The newspaper said that after...

GG's description makes it sound like Krishna
But I guess there are a bunch of other places there too.

I don't know if this was advertised but it looks like Yahoo have expanded their free webmail capacity from 6mb to 100mb and given it a general overhaul. Obviously an anti-Google tactic

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The site is getting a lot of hits right now so it may not load.

I think I've seen this headline (and heard variations on it on TV) without once picking up on the obvious double-entendre.
It's not as if Butt is a popular English surname...

"I, Robot" trailer on FoxJapan.com

Film websites like aintitcoolnews.com have been highlighting this trailer. The robot looks good.

This survey takes New York as its base city so all non-US dollar cities rise and fall as a result of dollar exchange movements as much local price movements. So Tokyo is "more expensive" in 2004 than 2003 in spite of absolute yen price falls in some of the categories measured. Its a fair m...

Oldboy is the film that won the "runners-up" award in Cannes.

I'll take the chance, though, to recommend Choi Min-sik's appearance in "Failan" which is a superb piece of acting and a good interpretation of a Japanese novel.

when a robot becomes 99 percent lifelike—so close that it's almost real—we focus on the missing 1 percent. That is true of human-to-human contact when it comes to foreign languages. Find someone with basic competency in your language and you'll probably (big probably) cut him/her some slack because...

I've noticed a few trends to be wary of when discussing Japan's recovery. There's always been the "This time it's different" camp who have been in play in one form or another since 1990 and are always trying to anticipate a v-shaped recovery. More predominantly, there has been the "Ja...

I guess I'm replying to myself but... Ex-Disney Artist Outraged Over Eisner's Remarks About Animation A veteran Disney animator....has posted a blistering message on the anti-Michael Eisner website savedisney.com , lambasting Eisner for his recent comment that the day of hand-drawn ("2-D")...

One of the first bits of advice I got in Japan was: If you want to sound fluent pronouncing "moshi moshi", just say "washing machine" instead and no-one will notice. I think this is a great gambit. Anyone know anything similar? Or, even more interesting, is there an english phras...

God dammit, I want a response to my post about the ban on imported CDs but if it takes a picture of new-halfs to keep the topic fresh, then so be it:

Sammy has been seen as the "New Dumb Money" by the film business for a while now. Interesting that they have been sidetracked into theatres. If they are investing in real estate then that might work but if they are geared to leases the they have been suckered.

Taro's original post was the Yomiuri Shimbun article saying: A recent report from the Education, Science and Technology Ministry called for measures to prevent recorded Japanese music packaged in other Asian nations from being sold in the domestic market at lower prices It is quiet clear that the ta...

Review of three Boredoms CDs On occasion, when asked, I've been known to tell people Boredoms are the best rock band ever...However, their earliest releases still have yet to attract hordes; some fans think they're the real bore-attraction, but they're often derailed as chaotic goof-fests. ...Onani...

Looks like UPI screwed up. They've just put this out at the beginning of the link now San Jose, CA, Jun. 8 (UPI) -- Networking giant Cisco Systems, ink a deal with Trend Micro to provide anti-virus technology on Cisco equipment. An earlier UPI report headlined "Cisco buys Japan's Trend Micro&qu...

Somehow I've seen this before. And I'm prepared to blame this site for steering me to it in some way. But I do recall seeing a couple of other pages where the guy said he was joking. But in a tone that suggested he was quite serious if anyone wanted to take him up on his offers.

In a very off-piste marketing effort, The Japan Catholic Expatriates posted their link on the SPRCI-JAPAN web page, specifically the Message Board SPRCI is a global "Site for Party Club & Rave Information" so obviously a hotbed of lost souls Unlike The Monkees, I'm not a believer but, ...

Don't know Husking Bee so I'll check them out if they don't clash. I liked Number Girl so that's good to hear about Mukai's new band. I saw Yura Yura Teikoku when they had just released "III" - http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/163021ef70640103826a9cfbaf742c1f.gif Great op...

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