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Fully-revised and updated edition of the best-selling guide to Japans most prolific and successful film director. This second edition of Agitator features * a new and expanded 16-page color section * completely updated DVD information * several brand-new reviews of Takashi Miike films including Audition, Dead or Alive, Ichi the Killer, and Visitor Q * Takashi Miikes own diary on the making of his controversial film Ichi the Killer, published in English for the first time ever * a career-spanning interview * ground-breaking, exhaustive and fully endorsed by Takashi Miike himself These films have amazed, stunned, delighted and shocked audiences the world over, garnering critical acclaim for their director. This is the definitive word on the most talked-about filmmaker of the decade.
An essential purchase for anyone wanting to know where cinema is heading in the 21st century. -- Pete Tombs, Mondo Macabro.
An impeccably-researched and exhaustive look at one of the most vital forces in international cinema right now. -- Aint It Cool News.
An extensively researched, cinematically literate, highly welcome addition to the slim shelf of books on contemporary Japanese films. -- Cinemaya [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amazing Secrets of Sun Tzu's: The Art of War'
This book explains the breath-taking discovery of the secret diagrams hidden in the 2,500 year-old classic on competitive success. Containing a complete copy of Sun Tzu's original text on the left-hand page, the right-hand page explains the meaning of the secret symbols, analogies, and metaphors used by Sun Tzu in that text. The purchase of this book gives the owner Free Access to The Warrior Class, Clearbridge's on-line training center for The Art of War. [via]
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Winner of the 2003 Independent Publishers Book Award for Best Multicultural Non-fiction. Recognized as the newest and most accurate translation of Sun Tzu's ancient classic with six significant improvements over other translation: 1) It uses the Taipei compilation of the main Chinese textual traditions instead of older fragmentary sources. 2) It individually translates each Chinese ideogram to let readers see the precise formulas in the original text. 3) It offers English sentences that clarify the central meaning of the text but chooses words to demonstrate the range of meaning in the original. 4) It preserves the original weight of ideas by creating one and only one line of English for each line of Chinese. 5) It duplicates the original format of the Chinese by grouping and numbering lines clearly to preserve the original contextual associations. 6) It assumes that Sun Tzu was rigorously consistent in his ideas. The imprecise word usage that creates contradictions in other versions are eliminated. [via]
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Good: A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels.Some of our books may have slightly worn corners, and minor creases to the covers. Please note the cover may sometimes be different to the one shown. [via]
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In this important book, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy present an enormous amount of information about 2,000 series and features, detailing their plots and relationships to other anime properties. In these areas, the book is definitive, and readers can only wish a comparable volume existed for American animation. The authors are less sure about non-Japanese influences (Cowboy Bebop owes more to noir detective films than to Route 66), and they focus more on storylines and the business of anime than on visuals. They don't discuss the influence of American Saturday morning TV on early anime designs (Speed Racer, the component series of Robotech) or the art nouveau styling in Revolutionary Girl Utena. The editorial evaluations are much harsher than McCarthy's The Anime Movie Guide: some of the most popular anime series in America--Tenchi, Evangelion, Ranma 1/2--receive sharp criticism. The result is a book that anime fans will either love or love to argue with. --Charles Solomon [via]
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As the Aquarian Age rises, the violence escalates between the various female factions, the Mindbreakers and the alien Erasers. However, a new change is on the horizon. Great power awakens in certain men and boys. Like the young girls of ages past, they learn to wield the magic found deep inside themselves. And now female Mindbreakers emerge in the battle to decide the fate of the Earth. Mana and Tsukasa are attacked by Lafayel, a mysterious boy who holds the secret to Tsukasa's past. Kaname, sensing danger, rushes to their aid. But before he can reach them, Tomonori attacks him - determined to rid the world of the evil of DARKLORE. What Lafayel reveals to Tsukasa frightens him. If Tomonori learns the truth, will he be disgusted with his past? [via]
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The only translation by America's leading expert in Sun Tzu's competitive methods. Buying this version gives you access to the world's most extensive Art of War study area at the Clearbridge website.
This book contains two complete translations: a character-by-character translation with the original Chinese characters and phrase-by-phrase translation into ordinary English. The character translation is shown on the left-hand page. The matching English sentences across from the translated characters on facing right-hand page. This work was created give the readers a better grasp of all the shades of meaning in what Sun Tzu actually said in his historical treatise on war. No simple English translation alone can capture this many insights in Sun Tzu's actual words.
Buying this version gives you access to the world's most extensive Art of War study area at the Clearbridge website. [via]
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The first volume of Dragon Knights drops you right in the action, as Rune, Rath and Thatz journey to Draqueen to deliver the head of their enemy Nadil to their master, the Dragon Lord Lykouleon. Now find out how this unlikely band of heroes got their jobs as volume 2 takes the you back to "Before they were Dragon Knights." In the fabulous kingdom of Draqueen, Lykouleon and his court are always vigilant against the forces of the Yokai demons, but they have no army to fight back. When a stubborn thief and a love struck elf cross his path, he may have found just the ones to help him. [via]
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This is a love story about Iwaki and Kato - two impossibly gorgeous looking actors that feel an immediate attraction to one another, but don't know how to express their love. Gradually, they nurture and embrace their feelings, and begin the most romantic relationship of their lives! [via]
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Kengo Kuma is known the world over for buildings that bear his stamp of simplicity and site-sensitivity - whether created to house ancient artifacts, upscale corporations, or performers of Noh theater. Serenely calm, Kuma's buildings always feature a deft handling of materials and both practical and aesthetic use of horizontal and vertical louvers, cut-outs, and etchings. Among the Tokyo-based architect's most dramatic work is the Kiro-san Observatory, which eschews the traditional dome-shaped archetype in favor of sinking the facilities deep into a seaside hill. Cut perpendicularly into the hill is a staircase that gives Belvedere views of the near-lying water. Kuma's celebrated Museum of Hiroshige Ando features the ukiyo-e art of the Japanese master. By using vertical cedar poles to define the museum's slatted walls and roof, Kuma creates an effect that is similar to that used by Ando in his popular nineteenth-century woodblock prints. In the case of the Stone Museum in Nasu, Japan, Kuma has created a complex of one-story buildings that connect three restored stone buildings from the early twentieth century - a rarity in Japan, which is susceptible to earthquakes. The long, attenuated stone additions are punctuated with horizontal slits and peek-a-boo vents that de-emphasize the material's weight and demonstrate its stunning structural qualities. [via]
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12-year old Sana Kurata is used to getting what she wants even in love. Ever since she hired her manager, a man 10 years her senior who she calls her "gigalo," she thought it was true love. When Rei shows his feelings for a woman his own age, Sana realizes that Reis feelings for her are anything but romantic. Sana has romantic problems at school, too, as now former-bully Hayama and mamas boy Tsuyoshi are vying for her affections. [via]

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Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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When Keitaro Urashima fails his entrance exams to get into Tokyo University for the second time, hes officially an unemployed and uneducated slacker. To make things worse, his parents have kicked him out of his house. Fortunately, his grandmother owns the fabulous Hinata Lodge and has agreed to take Keitaro in as caretaker. What he doesnt know is that the lodge is actually a girls dorm and hes the only guy around! Most guys would kill to live with five sexy ladies, but if Keitaros not careful, this job will kill him. [via]

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Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award, Naoko is a black comedy of hidden minds and lives. Navigating the interstices between the real and the unreal with perfect plot twists, this page-turner is also a critique of gender relations by a male Japanese writer, one of their best-sellng.
An everyman, Heisuke works hard at a factory job to provide for his wife, Naoko, and young daughter, Monami. He takes pleasure from the small things, like breakfast with both of them after a night shift. His placid life is rocked when, looking up from his microwave dinner one evening, he realizes the TV news that he wasn't paying attention to is reporting a catastrophic bus accident and the names of his loved ones.
When Monami finally wakes from a coma, she seems to think she's Naoko, who has died protecting her daughter. More disturbingly, the girl knows things only Naoko could know. The family life that resumes between the modest man and a companion who looks like his daughter bu seems like his dead wife is ticklish-funny until it begins hurtling toward a soul-shattering end.
In addition to winning Japan's top mystery prize, Naoko inspired a blockbuster movie. Read this work, a match for the later Bunuel, to find out why Higashino is considered the most ambitious and versatile mystery hand at work in Japan. [via]
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After their first Paradise Kiss runway show, catcalls to the catwalk make the crew think twice about continuing their fashion careers after graduation. Meanwhile, Yukari's college vs. modeling dilemma brings her relationship with George to a crossroads that will change their lives forever. Will this be the end of Paradise Kiss? [via]

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Sae, the worlds worst "best friend," is back with a vengeance. Now that Momo and Toji are finally happy together, Sae will do whatever it takes to break them up, and her latest scheme is her nastiest ever. For Momos birthday Toji made plans for he and Momo to have a special night alone. But if Sae gets her way, shell be the one kissing Toji, not Momo! [via]
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Race, Space, and the Law belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge naturally over time. Instead, they look at how spaces are created and the role of law in shaping and supporting them. They expose hierarchies that emerge from, and in turn produce, oppressive spatial categories.
The authors' unmapping takes us through drinking establishments, parks, slums, classrooms, urban spaces of prostitution, parliaments, the main streets of cities, mosques, and the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders. Each example demonstrates that "place," as a Manitoba Court of Appeal judge concluded after analyzing a section of the Indian Act, "becomes race." [via]
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Sailor Moon, the fantasy adventure of a young girl who discovers that she is the defender of Love and Justice, is an international phenomenon that keeps getting bigger.
Four of the Scouts have been captured!! How can Sailor Moon rescue them and their souls from Mistress 9? Help comes from an unexpected source as Hotaru fights with Mistress 9 for control of her body. But will she protect Rini and her Silver Imperium Crystal?!. [via]
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The recent rise in the West of Japanese photography makes Setting Sun a crucial document. The first anthology of its kind to appear in English, this book collects key texts written from the 1950s to the present by the country's most celebrated and controversial photographers, and illuminates a set of ideas, rules, and aesthetics that are specific to Japanese culture, but often little known elsewhere. Contributors include Takuma Nakahira and Daido Moriyama, in whose landmark late-60s magazine Provoke a radically new direction in Japanese photography was set; Nobuyoshi Araki, the provocative and prolific chronicler of bound girls (among other subjects); and Eikoh Hosoe, whose collaborations with the Butoh dance master Hijikata and the novelist Mishima made him prominent as an intellectual figure as well as a photographer. In addition, there are selections from modern masters such as Masahisa Fukase, Takashi Homma, Takuma Nakahira, and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Each chapter in the book is devoted to a central theme that is particular to Japanese photography, such as the role of nostalgia in a culture that has often sought to jettison its past amid the shadows of a war lost. The writings vary in form from diary entry to scholarly treatise, but all reflect a clear connection between word and image, one so essential that no comprehensive consideration of Japanese photography can be complete without it. [via]
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The Sorcerer Hunters happen upon a strange abandoned mansion and our heroes find themselves in the stuff of nightmares, as dark shadows and reflections take on life! Ice Vega separates Chocolat and Carrot from the others and, as usual, Carrot is out to par-ty!! All he needs to find is a babe! [via]
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Broché: 364 pages Editeur : Gallimard JeunesseÉdition : N°961. Editions Gallimard Jeunesse, 1999 (mars 1999) Collection : Folio Junior Langue : Français [via]
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Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
