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ロサンゼルス 日本映画祭で上映される映画の中からお薦め２本のご紹介です。** blank13 / カメラを止めるな** blank 13 8月18日 11:00 AM 上映「blank13」に登場する父親は仕事をしないでプラプラとギャンブル三昧、とうとう借金を作り、突然家族を置いて失踪してしまう。母親は父親の作った借金返済、生活費を稼ぐために朝から晩まで働きづくめ、子供たちも労働に駆り立てられる状況に―。悲惨を絵に描いたような状況の中で、子供たちは大人になっていく。13年を経て、失踪した父親が末期がんで入院していることが分かる。家族との溝が埋まらずに父はそのまま他界、この13年間の空白が、父...
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第13回ロサンゼルス日本映画祭が開催されます。 - 2018年8月18日(土)19日(日) - LA: 全米日系人博物館 - OC:ニューポートビーチ東本願寺今年の映画祭は「映画は冒険!」をテーマに、全米日系人博物館で、日本映画界の枠を超えた 作品を紹介するという、映画祭自体も一歩踏み出した冒険をし...
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By Keiko FukudaRed Rock opened in August of 2017 in Torrance, a suburb of Los Angeles, with the Slice Beef Don from Kobe as their signature dish. A rumor which said that you could taste a very unfamiliar sounding dish called the Slice Beef Don, spread instantly in the neighborhood. One time when I a...
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By Keiko FukudaThere is a restaurant on the first floor of a modern building that stands out facing Melrose Avenue. It is UMEDA, run by Mr. Takuya Umeda who used to be a chef at Matsuhisa, and became independent.There is a pond under the glass floor of the entrance of the restaurant, and the ceiling...
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By Keiko FukudaIt was right after their 2016 opening when the restaurant became the talk of the town as a “Japanese restaurant in downtown, to which people pay a lot of attention”. They won second place in the “101 Best Restaurants 2016” by Jonathan Gold. It is “Shibumi”. David Schlosser is the owne...
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By Keiko Fukuda “I have a recent favorite ramen restaurant. You can have sushi with fresh ingredients there too,” said a friend of mine. It is Ramen Spott in Torrance. My friend continued, “I heard that their owner/chef is not Japanese, but the taste is authentic.” I got interested even more. I chec...
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By Keiko FukudaMy first encounter with Marugame Udon was in Hawaii. About 5 years ago, I stayed at a hotel across the street from Kuhio Street in Waikiki. I was planning to visit this restaurant during my stay because I knew how popular this restaurant was among the local people by reading a blog of...
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By Keiko FukudaIt was about 6 years ago when I first noticed the store sign, “Koshiji” in the corner of a mall in Torrance in the outskirts of Los Ang...
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By Keiko FukudaThe ranking contest, “Los Angeles ramen top-10” in the LA Weekly magazine in 2013 awarded Umenoya in Torrance as No. 3. The article read, “You don’t hear the typical loud vibrant greeting as many ramen restaurants here, but you can taste all their efforts in making a bowl of ramen”. I...
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By Keiko FukudaIn Culver City which is located between the city of Los Angeles and Santa Monica, hot restaurants keep popping up one after another in ...
