{"id":15095,"date":"2010-11-26T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15095"},"modified":"2010-11-26T19:52:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T23:52:52","slug":"tom-baker-wrties-about-a-slew-of-movies-manga-and-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/26\/tom-baker-wrties-about-a-slew-of-movies-manga-and-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Baker wrties about a slew of movies, manga and a video game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker <\/a>(Chiba-ken, 1989-91) is a staff writer for The Daily Yomiuri<\/a>. As another example of JET ROI, he is one of at least four former JETs to have been on the newspaper\u2019s staff in recent years. He usually writes for DYWeekend<\/a>, the arts and leisure section. You can follow Tom\u2019s blog at tokyotombaker.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

His articles in the past two months include interviews with movie director Breck Eisner and video game producer Rich Rosado, plus a slew of reviews. Click on the titles in these thumbnail summaries to find the articles: <\/em><\/p>\n

In 1973, legendary horror director George Romero make a low-budget movie called \u201cThe Crazies<\/a>,\u201d in which the accidental release of a biological weapon turns many of the people of a small town into homicidal maniacs. Present-day director Breck Eisner has remade that movie with a much bigger budget, and he discusses the changes he made in the interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cRed Dead Redemption<\/a>\u201d is a video game that lets you shoot a lot of people and then makes you feel guilty about it. Rich Rosado, one of the producers for Rockstar Games (a company better known for its \u201cGrand Theft Auto\u201d series) says that\u2019s intentional in the interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Butler<\/a>\u201d is a manga in which a rich orphan seeks revenge for the death of his parents with the help of a supernatural butler.<\/p>\n

\u201cFairy Tail<\/a>\u201d is a manga follows the friendships and rivalries among a guild of young, good-looking wizards.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1<\/a>\u201d is a movie that needs no introduction.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaybreakers<\/a>\u201d is a movie in which vampires have taken over the world \u2013 and not all of them are happy about it.<\/p>\n

\u201c A Single Man<\/a>\u201d is a movie in which Colin Firth plays a gay man in America in 1963 who is devastated by the sudden death of his lover.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnight and Day<\/a>\u201d is a movie in which Cameron Diaz becomes a hostage\/apprentice to secret agent Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Expendables<\/a>\u201d is a movie in which Sylvester Stallone leads a merry band of morally mixed-up mercenaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker (Chiba-ken, 1989-91) is a staff writer for The Daily Yomiuri. As another example of JET ROI, he is one of at least four former JETs to have been on the newspaper\u2019s staff in recent years. He usually writes for DYWeekend, the arts and leisure section. You can follow Tom\u2019s blog at tokyotombaker.wordpress.com. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"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":[1],"tags":[342,341,343,344],"class_list":["post-15095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breck-eisner","tag-crazies","tag-red-dead-redemption","tag-rich-rosado"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3Vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15099,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions\/15099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}