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"The Robe", "Demetrius and the Gladiators" ... any others in this genre?
Coincidence?
Sock it to me girl on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in.
Garbage
Doesn't care a single wit if he does anything good ...
Steve Buscemi , you know, that funny looking guy ... got punched by some random whack-o in NYC
Problem is ...
Jerk demolished an historic home to build a big mansion
Joe Biden's interview with Howard Stern ( decide for yourself )
Howard Stern's interview with Joe Biden ( decide for yourself )
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> The dismantling of Japan's empire was a good thing
I am hardly disagreeing with that.
I think you are insane not to realize the experience Japans has with this region as compared with Russia on the complete other side of the Earth.
> The islands' closer proximity to Tokyo than to Moscow is irrelevant in my opinion.
An opinion based on emotion sounds like, or racism. BTW, I am a white American WASP, but <b>I recognize governmental competence, and Japan is one of the best run countries in the world</b>, as opposed to Russia.
> If the islands were to go to Japan, then there will be US military bases on them
American bases are not long for Japan, and certainly not increasing. I do think the US is aggressing against Russia which in general I do not support, but have mixed feelings about.
> Japan lost World War II fair and square, and the USSR earned the Kurils by helping defeat Japanese fascism.
Russia did not really do much to defeat the Japanese, and they intended to swoop in at the end of the war to take whatever they could - under Stalin. I think you need to re-read history in that regard.
> I dislike the right-wing Japanese revanchists who continually try to undo everything about the postwar order.
Every country has malcontent idiots, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, the US, etc ... you cannot characterize a whole country by their nuts. The biggest concern in the world is that the nuts in America have taken over the Republican party and nothing close to that is happening in Japan. Now worries there.
I either did not see the 1980 version or forgot it. I loved the book which I read when it came out as I got stung in the book or the month club, but it turned out really good.
I thought this mini-series, warts and all was pretty good. I still don't think anything is really portraying historical Japan as it was. Seems like it was pretty brutal, but then that is the image, and as the movie "Harakiri" by Masaki Kobayashi it was an image fo the masses that was often just window dressing to make the upper classes look nobel and superior.
I think Japan is a fascinating culture and people. Amazing what they have done with such a small island nation. Funny, I looked at a map recently and the islands that make up Japans extend up to the north into Russia ... and one has to wonder why Russia with all of that land - the biggest country on Earth has to lay claim to island that Japan is much better fit to manage?
I added to that post ... you read fast!
It's an old B&W movie, but if you have Amazon Prime or care to rent it, it is here:
https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Pay-Ronald-Colman/dp/B08CK2GV8D/
I caught this at our local classic cinema that only plays classic old movies, the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto, CA built in 1925. So many great movies and in original form, some of the silent ones have an organist performing the music. There are so many really good older movies that I find I'd rather watch than the same of sicko garbage they make today.
Granger and Colman are of two different generations. Colman born in 1891 and Granger in 1913. Colman started making movies around the time Granger was born.
If I recall I enjoyed Granger in "King Solomon's Mines".
They need to get the Supreme Leader, that's the one with the real power.
Freya Allan (born 6 September 2001) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Princess Cirilla of Cintra in the Netflix series The Witcher. She also appears as young Sam in the 2021 film Gunpowder Milkshake, as the younger version of The Widow in the AMC series Into the Badlands, and as Mae in the film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024).
It seems that most actors/actresses these days are either nepotism babies, relatives of famous actors of movie-making families, or they come out of organizations that create them, like Disney is the main one. It seems like most things in the US a corrupt way to work and unfair. This girl came from England ...
Allan was born on 6 September 2001 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, and attended Headington School National Film and Television School Arts University Bournemouth in Oxford.[2][3] Allan continued her artistic education at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where, as part of her acting studies, she starred in two short films, Bluebird and The Christmas Tree.[3] Allan went on to study at the Arts University Bournemouth, where she performed the part of Linda in the short film Captain Fierce.[4]
So, she at least seems to have earned her way into movies ... but her family was probably super-rich to be able to do and afford that.
LOL, it was probably the reason you stopped to look at the movie to begin with, before you got all superior.
If yer lookin' for edumacashun, yer inna rong plase.
Except that everyone knew it, and he admitted it.
Burton died at 58.
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