Dec
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2011
Books On Japanese History
Fabricated Japanese history in WW2 by Japan’s Asahi Shimbun
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Royal Albert 100 Years of Royal Albert Teacups and Saucers, Set of 5, 1900-1940 $135.99 Royal Doulton announces the international launch of the 100 Years of Royal Albert collection, celebrating a century of English craftsmanship through ten patterns representing design trends of each decade of the 20th century. Royal Albert’s success dates back to the late 1800′s, and the new collection celebrates the brand’s vitality, longevity and rich design history. The collection features all bo… |
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Michael Jackson 25th Anniversary of Thriller (CD+DVD) $9.06 Where Off the Wall was pretty much straight good times, Thriller introduced dread into Michael Jackson’s solo work. By 1995′s HIStory, this element curdled into overwhelming self-regard and out-of-touchness, but here it’s bracing. While Thriller offers its share of cute (“The Girl Is Mine,” a duet with Paul McCartney that was the album’s first single; “P.Y.T.”), the most memorable cuts remain “Bil… |
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Forever Young $8.19 Sure, it screams mid-1980s as joyously as any John Hughes teen flick, but this debut–from perhaps the only German export to sound positively gleeful–deserves as long a nostalgic afterlife as Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love,” Yaz’s “Only You” or mid-period Depeche Mode. Forget OMD’s “If You Leave,” “Forever Young” is the best should-be prom-theme the decade produced. While “Big in Japan” was the KROQ a… |
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The Last Emperor $7.63 The Last Emperor, director Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic tale of Pu Yi, the exiled final potentate of China’s 3,000-year old Qing dynasty, was the big winner at the 1988 Academy Awards, taking Oscars for (among others) Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score. The composing trio of Sakamoto/Byrne/Su was an unusual one to be sure, but it’s clearly Sakamoto who carries the day here. The ava… |
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National Geographic’s Living Treasures of Japan [VHS] $19.98 Timeless profiles of nine of Japan’s most revered artists are included in this thoughtful presentation, Living Treasures of Japan. The government of Japan selected 70 craftspeople and performing artists for their preservations of ancient arts. In return for the honor and a small annual stipend, they continue their work and teach apprentices. Among the artists profiled are a sword maker who designs… |
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The World At War – 9 Volume Gift Set [VHS] $37.50 Sir Jeremy Isaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society’s Desmond Davis Award, l’Ordre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War II. The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, one of which… |
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Shogun (2 Hour Feature) [VHS] $12.00 Originally broadcast in September of 1980 as a 5-part, 12-hour miniseries, Shogun stood out from the pack of television events at the time with its boldness of action and calculated risks. Based on James Clavell’s epic novel, Shogun stars Richard Chamberlain as John Blackthorne, a 17th-century English pilot commanding a Dutch ship that wrecks off the coast of Japan. Viewed suspiciously by local… |
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Babies $5.99 The babies in Babies are four newborns, photographed in their natural habitat in distinctly different parts of the world. Hattie is in San Francisco, Mari’s in Tokyo, Baryarjargal lives out in the Mongolian steppes, and Ponijao is born amid the simple straw huts of Namibia. In the course of less than 80 minutes, we’re going to follow this quartet through their first year of life, a chronicle that … |
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Ip Man $7.25 One of the most astonishing displays of martial arts action on film in recent years, Wilson Yip’s Ip Man chronicles the life of the eponymous Wing Chun master (Donnie Yen), who would later become instructor and mentor to Bruce Lee. Fans of Ronny Yu’s Fearless, with Jet Li, will notice several similarities between the biopics–like Li’s Huo Yuanjia, Ip Man is a tireless instructor whose life, large… |
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James Clavell’s Shogun $29.43 What better way to escape from the onslaught of so-called reality television than to sail away with Richard Chamberlain to “the Japans” for a little samurai action and some discreet “pillowing”? From the golden age of the miniseries comes this television benchmark, the 10-hour, Golden Globe-winning saga based on James Clavell’s bestselling epic. In his award-winning performance, Chamberlain stars … |
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