君子不器
As the annual Dajia Mazu Holy Pilgrimage (大甲媽祖繞境活動) comes to an end I think of those key passages in Henry Adams’ great work “The Dynamo and the Virgin” (1900) where the author interrogates the American’s prudish disdain for the feminine: The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as…
– review of the film Tokyo Family (2013) Tokyo Family (東京家族) is without a doubt one of the best Japanese movies I’ve seen in the last few months. The film is director Yamada Yoji’s (山田洋次) re-telling of and tribute to an earlier world cinema masterpiece, Yasujirō Ozu’s (小津安二郎) 1953 classic Tokyo Story (東京物語). Like it’s…