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Isao Matsuoka, a 52-year veteran of Japanese studio Toho, will receive the APSA 2009 FIAPF Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at next week's Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony.
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Quentin Tarantino, in Japan this month to promote "Inglourious Basterds," took the opportunity to act in some TV commercials for mobile carrier Softbank.
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Hideo Nakata, who directed the original Japanese version of "The Ring" and the second English version "The Ring Two," has been tapped to direct Zanuck Independent's supernatural thriller "Voice From the Stone."
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Warner Brothers Japan is to make a version of “Chushingura,” known elsewhere as “The 47 Ronin,” starring Koji Yakusho (“Memoirs of a Geisha” “Shall we Dance?”) and Koichi Sato (“Nobody to Watch Over Me”).
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| Sony president and CEO Howard Singer. (Getty) |
Cutbacks at Sony are bearing fruit, but a second year of losses means there is "more work to be done," chief executive Howard Stringer warned Thursday at a pair of briefings for the media and investors.
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| "Love Exposure." |
A priest's son embarks on a path of sin and panty photography motivated by confession-compulsion in "Love Exposure." Every genre is put through the blender in this smorgasbord of Japanese pop culture references and half-baked ideas on Christian guilt, institutional brainwashing, transvestitism, voyeurism, sex and violence. (November 10, 2009)
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"2012" |
| Release | Wknd. B.O. | Cume B.O. |
| 1. | 2012
| 165.2
| 165.2
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| 2. | A Christmas Carol | 17.2 | 34.5 |
| 3. | This Is It
| 11.1 | 155.1 |
| 4. | Up
| 5.4 | 374.6 |
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| Couples Retreat
| 3.6 | 34.2 |
| Figures in millions. Weekend of Nov. 13-15, 2009 |
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