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...Another vision of an alternate Japan, based on a manga (by So Kitamura), this movie proposes that the country's rulers averted a multicontinental World War II by forging a truce with the U.S. the day after Pearl Harbor - as we say, it's a fantasy - thus allowing the nobility to stay in power amid widespread poverty. Enter K-20, the Fiend (kaijin) with 20 Faces, who can assume almost any identity, and who steals from the rich but also oppresses the poor. Only one man (pan-Asian star Takeshi Kaneshiro) can stop K-20 - if he can just figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Film Fireworks for the Fourth | 7/4/2009 | See Source »

...Takei has since published a diverse range of books from authors and artists, including Noam Chomsky, Terry Richardson and Nobuhiko Kitamura, founder of fashion brand Hysteric Glamour. It was as a publisher of photography books, however, that Little More established its edgy reputation. Takei believed that visually rich books priced at music-CD levels could be marketed to young people who don't usually read. "Little More doesn't spend any money on the look or the binding of the book at all. They spend money only on the contents, and for the contents they spend as much as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heat Detector | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...STANDING ON ITS HEAD. Reality mixes with the past to arouse and comfort a man confronting the crises of middle age. The Asian American Association Players presents Philip K. Gotanda’s play about Harry Kitamura, a successful law professor, who finds his life and marriage unraveling when he researches a paper on his involvement in the 1970’s campus strike. Odd characters with violent and sexual impulses begin to invade his dreams, spilling over into his waking life so that he can no longer tell the two worlds apart. A wildly fantastic ride into obsession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 25-May 1 | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...were in many cases people of substance and standing in their native lands. The Indian delegation was led by bulky, 71-year-old Mrs. Rameshwari Nehru, a respected social worker and cousin-in-law to India's Prime Minister. The 45-man Japanese contingent was headed by Tokutaro Kitamura, a prominent banker and Liberal-Democratic member of Japan's Diet. Among the delegates from the Sudan was Foreign Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Organized Chorus | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Applauded a speech delivered by Tokutaro Kitamura, leader of a visiting delegation from the Japanese Diet. Said Kitamura: "I should like to express our deepest regret for the tragic trouble we have caused to the people of the United States, the peoples of the European nations, the people of China, and also the people of the Australian nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Old Rinds & Used Grounds | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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