A Japanese American woman who lives in Japan is invited to carry a stack of historical kimono to Washington DC from one museum to another, and then to lecture on them. Once she gets there, one of the kimono is stolen, her Japanese tourist acquaintance is killed, her passport goes missing, her parents think she’s [...]
“Pearl of China” by Anchee Min
Posted on July 22, 2012 // Leave a Comment
Today I went to the library for the first time in a million years, and while randomly grabbing books off of the shelves, I stumbled over Pearl of China by Anchee Min. I’m not a huge fan of Min’s, but somehow it’d seemed like I’d read every book she’s written except that one… So into [...]
“The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei: Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac”
Posted on June 11, 2012 // 4 Comments
Every year, I read a book from “The Plum in the Golden Vase”, translated by David Tod Roy. On Sunday afternoon, I finished “Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac“. (As a side note, I’m looking on Amazon right now, and they only have the fourth volume in hardcover, and no listing for volume five. Apparently David Tod [...]
Attic Cat – Episode 2
Posted on February 4, 2012 // Leave a Comment
“Attic Cat”, episode 2, titled: “In which nichan screams, ‘This guy is a total jerk!’” for an hour. In the previous episode, Kyung Min had gone to Jung Eun’s house late at night after being chased around by a bad plot point; Jung Eun, meanwhile, had just discovered that Kyung Min had been blatantly using [...]
Attic Cat – Episode 1
Posted on January 29, 2012 // Leave a Comment
I bought my pop a new iMac for Christmas, which means that (muwahahaha) I finally have a computer that runs the internet correctly. In honor of this, our fearless site leader sent me a gift subscription to Drama Fever, and this morning I finally got around to activating it and blew five hours of sleeping [...]
A Frozen Flower – with scads of images!
Posted on May 8, 2011 // 6 Comments
In my head (which certainly is no source of authority on anything but, like, how delicious cookies are), I have “Taboo”, “Farewell my Concubine”, and “King and Clown” plopped together in a neat little set. I got “A Frozen Flower” with the idea that it’d fit in with those three. …Not so much, though. After [...]
Sign Episode 9
Posted on April 12, 2011 // 2 Comments
Wow. This was not a slow episode at all and yet if feels like nothing happened, while several things did. So, where to start? This episode in a nutshell can be explained like this: Da Kyung and Yi han begin re-investigating Dr. Joo’s doctored gang case on their own. They luck out by coming upon [...]
Last Quarter – (Incredibly image heavy!)
Posted on April 9, 2011 // 8 Comments
“Last Quarter” is a Japanese movie based on a manga by Ai Yazawa. That manga isn’t “Nana”, which means I haven’t read it, so I can’t begin to tell you if it’s a decent adaptation of the original. Here’s what I can tell you, though… “Last Quarter” is the tale of this girl: And her [...]
