South Side Samurai Munetaka Murakami rides into Toronto
Vancouver Japanese Film Festival launches in September
Miho Suzuki explores accent bias and identity in "The Improper Identity" at Toronto Fringe Festival
Kate Kamo McHugh retraces ancestors' journeys across Canadian landscapes
Author Keiko Honda on the stories we inherit and the ones we pass on
Kimiko's Pearl album, featuring the ballet's original score, contends for two Juno Awards
The legacy of the Dantai: The Fraser River Fishermen’s Association
A fork in the road: The life of Tetsuo "Sam" Sakaki, 1905-1982
RENTAL FAMILY: A BIG-HEARTED REMEDY TO LONELINESS
The Samurai in Our Closet: Uncovering long hidden family history
01 Dec 2014
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Michael Mori has many achievements under his belt, including a Juno nomination, but one of his biggest achievements was yet to come. While in Toronto for the Juno awards in 2011, Mori decided to hand out some resumes. It was at that time he struck up a conversation with Wayne Strongman, the artistic...
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05 Nov 2014
Posted by James Heron 
In the closing months of the war, private Tamura, already half-dead from tuberculosis and starvation, wanders the Philippines alongside the few remaining soldiers of his forgotten regiment searching for the safety of the port town of Palompon. Surrounded by the physical, psychological and moral collapse...
Read more → 29 Oct 2014
Posted by Jonathan Eto 
Grannis gained popularity in 2008 when she won the Doritos Crash Super Bowl Contest, awarding her a 60 second commercial spot to play her music video "Message From Your Heart" to millions of viewers, and garnishing her with a record deal. To help muster up votes, she began to post videos on YouTube...
Read more → 15 Oct 2014
Posted by Angela Kruger 
Directed by Ishii Yuya (who won Best Director at the 2013 Japanese Academy Awards for The Great Passage) and starring Japan’s Tsumabuki Satoshi and Kamenashi Kazuya, the film gained a lot of attention in Vancouver for its incredible cinematic force and its star-power (Tsumabuki and Kamenashi may or may not have...
Read more → 10 Oct 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
The Jigaigeki story is simple: a hero, who is the embodiment of justice, punishes villains through clashing swords. The hero always wins and people thank him for saving their village. He is always cool, dignified, and right. And the viewer focuses on him solely as he's usually portrayed by a handsome,...
Read more → 03 Oct 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
From October 1 to 4, ProArteDanza will be performing at the Harbourfront centre, but it will also be one of the last performances for Mami Hata, a Japanese dancer who has been part of the organization since 2011. Hata began dancing in her hometown of Tokyo when she was 5 years old. Studying ballet...
Read more → 02 Oct 2014
Posted by James Heron 
And here are some of the highlights from 2014's Japanese selection and be sure to stay tuned as more reviews are on the way. TOKYO TRIBE If you are Sion Sono, auteur and enfant terrible of Japanese cinema, how do you top your own hyperbolically violent winner of TIFF’s 2013 People's Choice...
Read more → 08 Sep 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
The film, directed by Ishii Yuya and starring Tsumabuki Satoshi, tells the true story of the legendary Japanese Canadian baseball team, The Vancouver Asahi. In the early 20th century, Japanese workers immigrated to Canada in search of a new life, but faced the hard realities of racial discrimination,...
Read more → 08 Sep 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
As the war got worse for the Japanese side, the Kamikaze corps were created to use suicide attacks to hit enemy targets. It was an effective strategy, but it was a move that meant certain death. The Eternal Zero is an adaptation of Japanese novelist Naoki Hyakuta’s book of the same name. The novel...
Read more → 21 Aug 2014
Posted by nikkeivoice 
This year, Folklorama celebrated 45 years and the Japanese-Canadian community in Manitoba has been involved for most of those years. Celebrating the diversity of Canada and promoting cultural understanding is the mission of this festival. The Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba were one of the six founding...
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