{"id":13469,"date":"2010-09-08T10:18:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2010-09-08T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:23:52","slug":"wit-life-123-international-acclaim-and-disdain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/08\/wit-life-123-international-acclaim-and-disdain\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #123: International acclaim and disdain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\"><em><strong>WITLife<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> is a periodic series written by professional         Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><em><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.stacysmith.webs.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\"><strong>Stacy        Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><em><strong>(Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03).    She     starts her day  by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese,    and  here    she  shares s<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>ome of the    interesting  tidbits   and   trends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japan-zone.com\/modern\/pix\/f\/fukatsu_eri_akunin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was really happy to hear that Eri Fukatsu (37) won the best actress award at the 2010 Montreal World  Film Festival for her performance in the Japanese  film <em>Akunin<\/em> (Villain).\u00a0 It also features Satoshi Tsumabuki (29) who stars in the title role and is pictured with Fukatsu on the right.\u00a0 Akunin is a tragic love story based on the novel of the same  title, and  Fukatsu plays the part of a young woman who  runs away with a  construction worker (Tsumabuki) who inadvertently killed someone.\u00a0 It was directed by Lee Sang Il (36), and all three were in attendance at the festival.\u00a0 Fukatsu is the first Japanese actress to  take home the trophy since 1983.<\/p>\n<p>I have liked Fukatsu ever since seeing her in the 2005 drama <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.d-addicts.com\/Slow_Dance\">Slow Dance<\/a>, which also stars Tsumabuki who is one of my favorites.\u00a0 In this drama you wonder if <!--more-->their romance is ever going to take off due to the age difference and passivity on both their parts, but overall it is a feel-good love story. \u00a0 Akunin opens in Japan this Saturday, and I am looking forward to it making its way to the States to see the newest of what this couple with great on-screen chemistry has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, yesterday&#8217;s New York Times had a scathing editorial about Japan&#8217;s unstable political situation entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/07\/opinion\/07tue2.html\">Japan&#8217;s Leadership Merry-Go-Round<\/a>.\u00a0 It finishes with the line, &#8220;Revolving-door leaders with constantly shifting agendas are not in  Japan\u2019s interest \u2014 or the rest of the world\u2019s.&#8221;\u00a0 Stay tuned until next week&#8217;s DPJ election to choose a new  party chief to see if the short-term prime minister pattern plaguing Japan can be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. I was really happy to hear that Eri Fukatsu (37) won the best actress award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,263,30,18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-article","category-film","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13489,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions\/13489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}