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Warner Bros Travels to the Tokyo Underworld

/Film (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Robert Whiting’s Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. Frank Baldwin, the screnwriter of Phillip Noyce’s upcoming film The Art of Making Money, will make his feature film debut. Published in September 2000, Tokyo Underworld is an “unorthodox chronicle of the [...]

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Goddamn, You Fake-Japanese Tourmates! Weezer to Play with Tokyo Police Club... Who Are Actually Canadian

Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Seems Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo's Japanese fetish doesn't just apply to cello-players, wives, sumo-wrestlers, meditation, and fragile stationary. For the first time since 2005's Foozer, America's favorite eponym addicts are out of the black-walled apartment and back on the road with some super friends to promote their latest self-titled, Weezer (The Red Album) (TMT Review). But this time around,...

MetLife to Hold Tokyo Investor Conference

Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) will hold an investor conference in Japan at The Grand Hyatt Tokyo at Roppongi Hills on Wednesday, September 10, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. to

Warner Brothers Developing Tokyo Underworld Adaptation

FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | yesterday

As much as it sounds like Tokyo Underworld might be a sequel to Ninja Assassin, it is something entirely different. This project is an adaptation of a book written by Robert Whiting fully titled "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan." That title alone should hopefully be enough to interest you, as I'm already grinning thinking about cinematic opportunities...

Photo Op: Star Power in Tokyo!

Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | yesterday

ET has the latest... Eye candy alert! Ashton Kutcher gets surrounded by a couple of his favorite ladies -- glam wife Demi Moore and his 'What Happens in Vegas' fun-loving co-star Cameron Diaz -- as they walk the red carpet for the comedy's Tokyo premiere.

Tokyo Fantasy: Images of the apocalypse

MoPo | Geek News (Free subscription) | yesterday

These fantastic photoshopped images by Tokyo Genso (Tokyo Fantasy) show a post-apocalyptic Tokyo overtaken by nature.

Warner Bros. Heads for Tokyo Underworld

ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | yesterday

Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Robert Whiting's "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan" and has...

Polar bear escape training at Tokyo zoo

Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Warner Bros. Digging Into Tokyo Underworld

Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Frank Baldwin will adapt the true-life crime feature.

Warner Bros. Heads for Tokyo Underworld

ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | yesterday

Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Robert Whiting's "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan" and has hired Frank Baldwin to adapt the true-life crime novel.

Tokyo stocks end lower on anxiety over Japan's economy - Summary

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tokyo - Tokyo stocks ended lower Thursday on worries on an economic slowdown after more writedowns by financial firms. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell 129.9 points, or 0.98 per cent, to close at 13,124.99. ...

Asia Markets: Tokyo slides in wake of weaker economic outlook

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian stocks traded on a mostly weaker note Thursday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 fronting declines on concerns about the economic outlook after the government downgraded its view on the economy.

Virtually Tour Tokyo's Gaming Mecca With Google Maps [Sightseeing]

Kotaku (Free subscription) | yesterday

Want to go to Akihabara and bask in the glory of millions of tons of video games, capsule toys, manga and electronics? Probably not if you're paying for the plane ticket over there. Fortunately, with...

'Red Cliff' to open Tokyo fest

Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Film News: TIFF's theme is ecology -- John Woo's period epic "Red Cliff" will open the 21st Tokyo Intl. Film Festival, which unspools Oct. 18 to 26 in Tokyo, organizers announced on Wednesday.

Art Space Tokyo: Nakaochiai Gallery

JEANSNOW.NET (Free subscription) | yesterday

Art Space Tokyo has released another free PDF map from the book, this time covering the area around the Nakaochiai Gallery. Get it here, and don’t forget that buying the book is a damn good idea too! time savedtime saved

Pakistani PM meets Bush, warns US against 'unilateral, Japan warns nationals in India over threats, Bomb Blast News

rockport | 07/31/2008

Tokyo: Japan on Thursday warned its nationals in New Delhi about the threat of bomb blasts and said it would temporarily close part of the embassy after a spate of attacks in the country.

Leona Lewis Named Goodwill Ambassador

soulfullvibes | 07/23/2008

British beauty Leona Lewis has been named Goodwill Ambassador for UK-Japan 2008 at the nomination ceremony in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday.

OE-Cake - Free Download Of The Long Awaited English Version of OE-CAKE

oe_cake | 07/11/2008

Prometech offers free download of the long awaited English version of OE - CAKE ! its demo software for OctaveEngine™ Casual, the 2D-based multi-physics engine Prometech Software, Inc. (Home Office: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; President, Toshimitsu Fujisawa. Hereafter "Prometech") following their Japanese release of OE - CAKE !, demo software for OctaveEngine™ Casual, the 2D-based multi-physics engine that turned...