Source: Kineda
I saw this bit of news regarding Chrissie this morning on Kineda and noticed that only one person on the site has left a comment about her. I hope this one gets more comments because Chrissie is drop-dead gorgeous. Andi if you haven’t acquainted yourself with Chrissie in a while, today is a great day to do so.
Before Lust, Caution (2007), before Brokeback Mountain (2005), before The Hulk (2003), and even before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Taiwanese movie director Ang Lee was well known in international movie circles for his very well received The Wedding Banquet, which was released in 1993.
The story basics start with three characters, Wai-Tung and Simon, a gay male couple, living in Manhattan, and Wei-Wei, a beautiful struggling artist who is a tenant in a rental apartment property in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that is owned by the portfolio diverse Wai-Tung.
Wai-Tung has not told his parent that he is gay. Said parents continue to harangue him about getting married and presenting them with grandchildren. And Wei-Wei is facing deportation from the US unless she can marry an American.
Well, Wai-tung is a naturalized American citizen, so a ‘marriage’ of convenience between he and Wei-Wei is designed by the threesome. This should allow Wai-Tung and Simon to continue as they wish, and Wei-Wei would then be granted a green-card to allow her stay in the US. Or so they thought. Wai-tung announces this to his parents in Taipei, and to his shock and dismay, they promptly announce that they are flying in to meet the bride, and arrange the wedding, as a civil ceremony only just won’t do.
Connected (Bo Chi Tung Wah) released in September, 2008, is a taut thriller with plenty of action. Directed by the veteran and reliable Hong Kong director Benny Chan, the film has enough action with shootouts and chases to keep the 18-30 year old males involved, enough eye candy and dramatics to satisfy the 25-45 males watching on DVD, and a sympathetic but resourceful woman as the victim of a kidnapping along with a couple of cute 6 year old kids, so you can safely ask your significant other along to watch the video with you.
In a nutshell, an attractive single Mom called Grace Wong, an electronics whiz played by the wonderful Barbie Hsu, while driving a sporty convertible gets into an auto accident which was no accident. When she recovers her senses, she as well as we are brought up to speed as we all learn she is a victim of a kidnapping.
The bad guys want something from her brother and think she might have it, or might know where he is. She doesn’t have a clue but the bad guys have to resort to some real heavy-handedness to get to that point. Read more…
Source: Kotaku
I remember when Asuka Sawamoto made headlines by flashing her rump in the middle of Akihabara which drew massive crowds that came to take photos of her. She claimed to be 22 years old until it was found that she was actually 31 years old and a gravure idol with a few IVs already available.
What I wasn’t aware of was her adult video debut this April which I found out about yesterday while looking at the latest video game news on Kotaku, and that this news was already available here on the forum before Kotaku’s article was published to the internet. So I decided to take that information and turn it into one convenient post for your enjoyment.
A while back, our fellow member la brought up an interesting observation when he was checking out the most downloaded files from his uploads to the SLF File Server. Out of all of the files that he had uploaded, the top three most downloaded files were the ones containing photos of women who have been completely photoshopped.
When I first started collecting photos, fakes just consisted of someone taking someone’s head and slapping it on someone else’s body. Now it’s to the point where people can’t tell if they are looking at an actual person because of the amount of work done to the photo itself.
I don’t mind looking at fakes, but I prefer to look at a real person. What I am really interested in is how others feel about this phenomenon since I have only seen this done for photos of Asian women. Do you like fakes? Are you someone who makes them? Would this be considered an appreciation of Asian beauty when none of these women are real? Let’s hear it.
In case you missed it, someone “hacked” our site and placed a survey where unless you answered the questions properly, you would have been banned from the forum. But don’t worry, forum access has been restored and the survey no longer bans you based on your response to the survey questions.
I was banned immediately for being a cheapskate, so I am glad that access was restored. What’s really interesting are the statistics and responses that were received from this survey. If you would like to check out the statistics and aftermath, please click here.
Look For a Star aka Yau Lung Hei Fung is a 2009 Romance from famed Hong Kong director Andrew Lau who is most famous for the Infernal Affairs trilogy that he co-helmed with Alan Mak.
The star is the eminently bankable Andy Lau who has returned from doing a few period epics to a modern Romance in this feature. His co-star is Shu Qi.
The film is set entirely in Macau, which is a mere 40 miles and 40 minutes away from Hong Kong via your choice of high-speed ferries like jetfoils, turbo-cats, jumbo-cats and other kinds of hovercraft. I must add that clearing immigration in both Hong Kong and Macau took almost as long as the rapid trip across the South China Sea. Macau is correctly called the Las Vegas of the East, and serves as a glittering backdrop for the story. Read more…
Source: Kotaku
I have been a huge fan of The King of Fighters series by SNK since King of Fighters ‘94. I had high hopes for The King of Fighters XII when it was released in 2009, but the game wasn’t as good as I thought it would be, plus one of my favorite characters was missing from the roster.
Mai Shiranui has been a part of the series since the beginning, and I did not like that she was not a part of KOF XII. The good news is that Mai returns to the roster with the announcement of The King of Fighters XIII which will be out in arcades this summer. So let’s celebrate with some sexy cosplay by Sayuki Matsumoto. And if you haven’t acquainted yourself with Sayuki in a while, now is a good time to do so, especially since she looks amazing in Mai’s costume.
A recent article in Japantoday.com was a short piece about beautiful actress Akiko Yada and her marital woes. You can read the piece here, but the long and the short of it is that hubby Manabu Oshio is currently being detained, as in held in custody, by the Tokyo police, while facing a charge of failing to exercise due care resulting in a death.
It seems, per the article, that Akiko long suspected her husband of infidelity, but she is surprised that drugs are also involved. She filed for divorce four days after Oshio’s arrest.
I’m not going to comment further on the arrest, the alleged crime, the alleged drug use, or infidelity. Those things will work themselves out with or without press coverage and definitely without my opinions.
Maybe it is part of the press campaign for her next motion picture. In a more recent Japantoday.com article, they’ve announced that Akiko will play a police detective along with Kenji Sakaguchi doing the Bruce Willis role in the Japanese version of Die Hard.
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June Woo: The opening narration:
“In America, I will have a daughter just like me. But over there, nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband’s belch. Over there, nobody will look down on her because I will make her speak only perfect American English. And over there, she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow.
The recent post on this blog about Ming-na Wen brought to mind her role as June Woo in the wonderful film adaption of the Amy Tan novel, The Joy Luck Club. The novel’s pedigree is impeccable. Published by G.P. Putnam & Sons in 1989, the book was on the New York Times best seller list for more than six months, it has been translated into more than 35 languages, and has sold in excess of 30 million copies world wide since its original publication more than 20 years ago.
After Amy Tan had a lengthy three day meeting with screenplay writer Ron Bass and movie director Wayne Wang, where they hashed out how the novel would be adapted into a movie, the three of them made a pact that they would not sell the book’s movie rights, or the screenplay, unless the studio gave them total creative control, meaning they would control the screenplay, the choice of location and actors, the filming, the editing, all the way up to and including the final cut. Read more…