{"id":11186,"date":"2010-03-21T20:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2010-03-21T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:53:54","slug":"tom-baker-reviews-sherlock-holmes-interviews-jon-foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/21\/tom-baker-reviews-sherlock-holmes-interviews-jon-foo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Baker reviews “Sherlock Holmes,” interviews Jon Foo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker<\/a> (Chiba-ken, 1989-91) is a staff writer for The Daily Yomiuri<\/a>. He usually writes for DYWeekend, the paper\u2019s arts and leisure section. You can follow Tom\u2019s blog at tokyotombaker.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last Friday he had two movie articles in the paper: a review of \u201cSherlock Holmes,\u201d which you can read here<\/a>, and an interview with martial artist Jon Foo, who stars in a new movie based on the \u201cTekken\u201d series of video games. Here is an excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

“My mom, she does judo, and my dad did karate, so I learned a lot from them growing up,” Foo told The Daily Yomiuri in an interview in Tokyo last week. “My mom used to do throws; tomoenage was her favorite. She’d pick me up, kick me in the air and I landed on the bed. And I’d do conditioning. And then I moved on to kung fu, tae kwon do, Muay Thai. Just take the best from each and mix it [considering] whatever suits my body, and I’ll take that and I’ll use that to perform to my best.”<\/p>\n

Foo, 27, has had supporting roles in action movies in several countries, but Tekken puts him in the lead for the first time.<\/p>\n

He plays Jin Kazama, a young man who makes a living as a fleet-footed courier in a postapocalyptic world ruled by corporations, one of which is Tekken (a name that translates as “iron fist”)\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Tekken’s top boss, Heihachi Mishima, is an elderly man–but a mean fighter–whose shiny bald dome is framed by an erect ruff of gray hair that looks like a set of tail fins from a 1950s Cadillac. The hair and makeup people did a hilarious job of replicating this look on actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, but they were more restrained when it came to just hinting at Jin’s swept-back hairstyle with Foo. We’re probably meant to laugh at some parts of this film, but Jin has to hold the audience’s sympathy.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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