Romantic sexy movie about 1931 Japan

[torasan]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar ... 2003548051

YES THEY ''KANO" -- and movie due for release in Japan in April 2014. Filming going on now in Taiwan and Kobe.

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When a Chiayi high school baseball team from the Taiwan colony was invited to Japan in 1931 to play in the annual Koshien all-Japan tournament, they reached the finals — and almost won. A small museum in Chiayi serves as an unofficial team shrine and one of the locations where a movie about the team will be filmed

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Need to remember that this hero baseball team in colonized Taiwan of 1931 was doing their thing just ONE YEAR after the 1930 Wushu Uprising and Masscare in central Taiwan where a band of local Aborines, angry at the way their japanese colonizers were treating them, rose up in rebellion and massaced 124 Japanese men woman and kids in broad daulight during a sports day event in Taiwan, A year later, KANO high school is fielding a team of 4 Abogine boys, 3 Han Chinese Taianese boys and 2 Japanese boys. OUCH? How did the Aborigines REALLy feel about playing baseball for their oppressors?

''Some 134 Japanese were massacred in what came to be known as theMusha (Chinese: Wushe) Incident (霧社事件), before the military brutally quelled the rebellionwith aerial attacks and poisonous gas. Leo Ching has documented very skillfully how this violent uprising “deeply shook, [and] momentarily destabilized, Japanese rule” and how Japanese cultural producers reacted by creating stories and films in subsequent years that reordered the relationship between colonizer and “savage.” An example was the song and film “The Bell of Sayon,” about an Aboriginal maiden who dies helping her Japanese teacher (and local police officer) carry his luggage down a steep mountain pass. Like the British mythologization of Pocahontas, this discourse was meantto “[transform] the aborigines from an unruly population to patriotic subjects in the post-Musha era.”6While Ching’s reading of these cultural productions is astute, the time lag between Musha and these works – for example, the film “Sayon” was released 13 years later, in 1943 – complicates notions of directly causal connection. The realm of baseball, by this time crucial to notions of modernity and nationalism in Japan, is another cultural space in which both colonizer and subject addressed much more immediately the implications of the bloodshed of October 1930''

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Some more background news here with links to very good Youtube TV news story about the KANO 1931 team

http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/11/2 ... e-pennant/

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So the way to write his name and all Japanese
singers and actors names in Taiwan, would be like this, for blogs and
newspapers and websites and facebook posts: ''.....永瀨正敏 (Masatoshi
Nagase)...." -- this way, Taiwanese people can learn the REAL name of
their Japanese guests. It is wrong to call him Yinpoo Goopoo or
whatever you say in Mandarin, because that is not his real name, just
PINCHI POO is... not the girl singer;s name either. So write his name
here from now on as....''.....永瀨正敏 (Nagase Masatoshi)..." in Japanese
culture his name is NAGASE Masatoshi, but in Western newspapers he is
called Masatoshi Nagase, so you can decide how you want to call him,
first name or last name, but please do not call him YINPOO GOOPOO,
that is NOT his name. smile

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THE KANO MUSIC THEME SONG NOW HERE ! movie theme song
thanks to GINNY CHOU IN TAINAN~!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghObTy-2S1Q


This informal video was taken by a fan of the movie KANO during the recent New Year's Eve party in Tainan City, southern Taiwan, where the 5 singers who sing the theme song of the movie performed on stage for the first time together as a group: and they are RAKE, a singer from Sendai, Japan, who is making a name for himself now in Japan pop and folk music; and SUMING, a wonderful Aboriginal singer with a unique sound and an artistic style that soars; and Irene Liu and Van Fan and one more singer, whose name I am trying to find. -- ALSO, if you know the words or lyrics of the song, please tell me too.

[IparryU]

So the way to write his name and all Japanese
singers and actors names in Taiwan, would be like this, for blogs and
newspapers and websites and facebook posts: ''.....永瀨正敏 (Masatoshi
Nagase)...." -- this way, Taiwanese people can learn the REAL name of
their Japanese guests. It is wrong to call him Yinpoo Goopoo or
whatever you say in Mandarin, because that is not his real name, just
PINCHI POO is... not the girl singer;s name either. So write his name
here from now on as....''.....永瀨正敏 (Nagase Masatoshi)..." in Japanese
culture his name is NAGASE Masatoshi, but in Western newspapers he is
called Masatoshi Nagase, so you can decide how you want to call him,
first name or last name, but please do not call him YINPOO GOOPOO,
that is NOT his name. smile

So this yingpoo goopoo is a baseball player? Sorta like a monkey? Go poo and ying poo at people taking pictures of him? He must be a pitcher if this is the case.

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[matsuki]

I like Pinchi Poo better...

[torasan]

Yingpoo gooppo is the Mandarin chinese name for MASATOSHI NAGASE, who plays the coach of the team the movie.