Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Thanks Ryoko Ohnishi. Yes, that robot is mine.
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Film Festivals create photo ops and those make for weird photos. So here’s one of them that showed up in the Rafu Shimpo. I’m on the right not smiling. Yes, 1 shot, no smile, but I was having a decent time I think. Was I? There’s no mention of why we’re there, but we were and I guess Goh, cousin Mike (they star in Daylight Savings) and myself are Japanese American so here we are. It’s an honor regardless. They do mention the doc on photographer and friend, Mario Reyes along with other big points of the LAAPFF this year. Thanks Mikey Culross. (Rafu Shimpo – photo)
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Japanese Americans who died in 2011. It’s a comprehensive list. Tura Satana, Hideki Irabu, Sori Yanagi and Wally Yonamine are unfortunately on it. Great job and wish there were no reason to have to do this. (Rafu Shimpo – Notable JA Passings)
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Nobuko Miyamoto known as Joanne Miya at the time is now associated with activism, but she was once an actress and was in West Side Story. We covered some of her activist projects from years past including music and her work with the Black Panthers and Asian American groups. The Rafu Shimpo Article chronicles her experience and how it led to what she does today. Can you believe she was in this film 50 years ago? That’s her second from the right. (Rafu Shimpo – Nobuko Miyamoto)
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