I made the mistakes of showing Grave of the Fireflies in class today. I've shown three WWII- related films--McCarthur's Children, 24 Eyes and Black Rain, so I didn't need to show another one. But I wanted to show at leas...

In yeserday's film class, I showed another movie for the first time. This semester, I am trying to introduce more films. I was certainly getting tired of showing the same ol' same ol' for the past eight years--Seven Samu...

Every spring semester, I teach a course called Japanese culture through film. It is not really a film class, because I'm not really a film instructor. I can view films and critique them in my own way, but I don't conside...

Comment of the day... Sensei, you keep getting my name wrong! Kyzer is some other Xangan without an active blog, Kizyr is me, the one with the beautiful blog with pictures of half-naked men on it.-- Posted 2/3/...

Comment of the day... For a while I hid my subscriptions cuz I didn't want bad blood - I didn't want my subscribers to see that I wasn't subscribed to them, or even that I subscribed to some site that they didn't...