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FILM - ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA



increasingly gloomy view of the time and fatigue of training last night I was in home to see me one of my DVD martial arts movies, this time the film was one of those unearthed recently on sale "ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA", the first in a long saga of 6 films in the first three and sixth interpreted by the legendary Jet Li, dedicated to the doctor and martial artist Wong Fei-Hung, historical character of Chinese culture.
The film is rich in fighting lasts more than two hours but it runs very quickly wisely enriched with a seonso of humor which is good.

The film is directed by Tsui Hark and was released in Hong Kong in 1991, the cast includes well known to our Jet Li Rosamund Kwan also in the role of 13 ° aunt who also repeated in subsequent films. There

instead a brief synopsis:

In China in the late nineteenth century lived a man, Huang Fei Hong, a martial arts master who defended his people from oppression of the British colonialists. Good and just man, as well as with its unique combat skills. Which has become a true legend, the figure of the Master Hong was the star of several hundred gongfupian (Chinese martial arts films) since the war. This latest implementation of this character on film is certainly the most ambitious and most successful: the masses are witnesses of premiums collected, the five sequels made and the great popularity around the world. The reason for this success is easily explained. It is not only peppered by some of the most amazing battles ever seen (the long sequence on the wooden stairs is a heart attack), but as with most films of this kind, also a devoted extraordinary care and attention to historical and social context time. The title was not enough to manifest the intention of Tsui Hark is to achieve a sort of Once Upon a Time in Chinese America. We are far from those levels, but not so much. Distance is reduced alarmingly considering the first three chapters of this saga as a single body, a sort of essential handbook for those who want to know the extent of hongkongese cinema of the 90s, China colonial imagination collective today, and as Jet Li has become what it is.

So in the end the board for fans of the genre:)

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BOOKS - THE LITTLE SHADOW by Banana Yoshimoto



Yesterday in a circuit sympathetic Bookcrossing set up by a shopkeeper in my area I found three interesting books of Japanese authors and Chinese, including I borrowed this book of Yoshimoto.

I have not yet developed an idea about the author, very good in prose and original as the topics covered Yoshimoto usually either love or hate me .. maybe I have yet to understand fully, I try with this book that I was passionate and which I have already read the first episode ..

In the meantime, I post the synopsis of the book: What does it mean to betray

? How is cheating? The betrayal has the same meaning for everyone?

Banana Yoshimoto, rather than giving answers, draws emotional landscapes that define the boundaries of one of the most painful aspects of life and enigmatic.
who betrays? The girl who has an affair with a married man or his wife cheated who, with knowledge of the deal, mind, proclaiming the death of the lover?
Those who feel most betrayed? The mother who thinks it is right to trust to his daughter the date of death of newborn niece, revealing her astrological calculation, or the daughter who will not ever forgive her for the evil prophecy?
The protagonists of these stories are young Japanese women in their twenties and thirties. For many different reasons, are in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil: land-hued very strong, full of an extraordinary life force that affects their sensitivity.
are all taking part or a betrayal of spectators who, alienated by the prospect of being elsewhere, acquires a different dimension and becomes a special occasion to reflect more deeply on their identity.
As often happens with Banana Yoshimoto, rather than the plot itself, is the character development to be of importance, their way of approaching reality and its various aspects. And in their different stories, betrayal becomes an inevitable passage of life, an integral part of life.