“They get older and weaker day by day. So don’t ever give up. You’re eternally younger than those idiots.”
Author - Andrew Thayne
Born in Luton, Gross Britannia, my life ambition was to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. But, as I entered my teens, after being introduced to the films of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan (at an illegal age, I might add), it soon dawned on me that this ambition was merely a liking for the kung-fu genre. On being exposed to the works of Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar-wai, Yimou Zhang and Katsuhiro Otomo while still at a young age, this liking grew into a love of Asian cinema in general.
When not eating dry cream crackers, I like to critique footballing performances, drink a beer, pretend to master the Japanese and Hungarian languages and read a book.
I have a lot of sugar in my diet, but not much salt.
Koji Fukada looks at childhood nostalgia, but how the adult world keeps turning.
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Yoshihiko Ueda is a director, photographer, and Professor of Department of Graphic Design at Tama Art University.He was born in 1957 in Hyogo Prefecture. Among...