Gaijin

Wings of Prey is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II. Players can participate in some of the war’s most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and bombers across a range of thrilling missions. There are six theatres of war to engage in – The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Ardennes, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun' representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe. Wings of Prey also boasts an all new damage effects engine as well as advanced environmental visuals enriching the game play. Wings of Prey features hundreds of airplanes taking part in air battles. The unique environmental engine also produces highly detailed, realistic landscapes that allow players to see breathtaking ground support actions.

From Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor & Humanity) the director celebrated for changing the face of Japanese action cinema, comes this pivotal crime drama. Stylish and hard-boiled, Sympathy for the Underdog stars Koji Tsuruta, one of Japan’s seminal figures in the Yakuza genre, as Gunji, an aging Yakuza who is released from prison after ten years. Gunji lives by a code of honor that has no place among Tokyo’s modern corporate gangs. He gets a new lease on life by reforming his former gang and taking over the whiskey trade on the island of Okinawa. But he is forced to make a final, fateful, bloody stand against the mainland gang that sent him to prison.

Giappone, 1957. Il matrimonio combinato della diciassettenne Naoko Nakamura con il figlio del socio di suo padre garantirebbe alla ragazza una posizione sociale di prestigio. Naoko, però, si è innamorata dell’uomo sbagliato: è un marinaio americano, quello che in Giappone viene definito un gaijin, uno straniero. Quando la ragazza scopre di essere incinta, la comprensione e l’affetto che sperava di trovare nei genitori si rivelano soltanto un’illusione. Ripudiata da chi dovrebbe starle vicino, Naoko sarà costretta a compiere scelte inimmaginabili, per qualunque donna ma soprattutto per una madre. Stati Uniti, oggi. Tori Kovač è una giornalista. Mentre si prende cura del padre, anziano e gravemente malato, trova una lettera che getta una luce sconvolgente sul passato della sua famiglia. Alla morte del padre, decisa a scoprire la verità, Tori intraprende un viaggio che la porta dall’altra parte del mondo, in un villaggio sulla costa giapponese. In quel luogo così remoto sarà costretta a fronteggiare i demoni del suo passato, ma anche a riscoprire le proprie radici.

This highly entertaining business memoir describes what it was like to work for Japan’s premiere animation studio, Studio Ghibli, and its reigning genius Hayao Miyazaki. Steve Alpert, a Japanese-speaking American, was the “resident foreigner” in the offices of Ghibli and its parent Tokuma Shoten and played a central role when Miyazaki’s films were starting to take off in international markets. Alpert describes hauling heavy film canisters of Princess Mononoke to Russia and California, experiencing a screaming Harvey Weinstein, dealing with Disney marketers, and then triumphantly attending glittering galas celebrating the Oscar-winning Spirited Away.

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