Tag: bae doona

  • Japanese Music for June 2010!

    I really wanted to change one of the songs, but the song I wanted to add has escaped my mind. I have only heard it a couple of times, so the group didn’t stick with me… only the description as “they look like the Japanese Rolling Stones” – They lead singer even looked a bit Mick Jaggerish with his skinny pants and his movements. The song name — I suppose — is KIMOCHI, but because it has such a name, it seems impossible to Google. Do you know the song I’m talking about?

    The guys kept singing KIMOCHI, and I’m pretty sure it was written in Katakana.

    Anyway, if you know… leave a message~

    *EDIT*
    Yes, I found it. I’m so good. xD Took 2hrs though xD

    In the meantime, you gotta listen to this new Japanese mix~

    [iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLD78DB60471275D69&hl=en_US”]

    1. GO!GO!7188 – 浮舟 (Ukifune) – Floating Boat
    2. PARAN MAUM – リンダリンダ (RINDA RINDA) – Linda Linda (From the movie Linda Linda Linda)
    3. Spitz (スピッツ) – ジュテーム? (JU TE-MU?) – Je t’Aime?
    4. MONGOL 800 – 小さな恋のうた (Chiisana Koi no Uta) – Little Love Song
    5. Tamio Okuda (奥田 民生) – マシマロ (MASHIMARO) – Marshmallow (?)
    6. RC Succession (RCサクセション) – 気持ちE / キモちE – KIMOCHI-E
    7. Kaela Kimura (木村 カエラ) – マシマロ (MASHIMARO) – Marshmallow [cover]
    8. Hitomi Yaida (矢井田 瞳) – 一人ジェンガ (Hitori JENGA) – Jenga Alone
    9. Shiina Ringo (椎名林檎) – ありあまる富 (Ariamaru Tomi) – Superfluous Fortune
    10. The Blue Hearts – 終わらない歌 (Owaranai Uta) – Never-ending Song

    Yes, I think it makes sense xD
    enjoy the playlist!


  • To Watch Until They’re 35 – Doona Bae

    Holler if you just said “What?”!

    You might be asking me why I would put Natalie Portman as #3, who is virtually known by everyone, and is the role model of  virtually 95% of late teens/early 20s young actresses around. We admitedly find Kristen Stewart’s fangirl-y-ness kind of cute and amusing [1][2]. However, if we decided to put Natalie Portman as our #1, then that would be a little bit boring, right?

    Plus, this time we are choosing quality over quantity. ;P

    So~~~ on our list of 20 Actors to Watch, here it is: Doona Bae on #2.

    Born in Seoul, South Korea on October 11th 1979, this 30-year-old actress is best known as archer Park Nam-Joo in the monster film The Host (Gwoemul) by Bong Joon-ho, as well as playing activist Cha Yeong-mi in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance by Park Chan-wook.

    Born to famous stage Korean actress, Kim Hwa-young, it seemed that Bae was born with acting in her veins. However, she always felt that acting was only for people of extraordinary talent, so she kept away. One day in 1998, after graduating from university, Bae was scouted by a model agency, and one year later she was already debuting on the KBS TV drama School — which earned her the KBS Drama Award for Best New Actress, while making her big screen appearance with a brief role on The Ring Virus, the Korean remake of the Japanese horror RINGU.

    In year 2000, she was cast as Hyeon-nam in Barking Dogs Never Bite, directed by Bong Joon-ho due to her willingness to appear without makeup, which many other South Korean actresses refused to do. This earned her another award as Best New Actress, at the Blue Dragon Awards. She followed it with two films that were received positively by critics, first in 2001 with Take Care of my Cat by Jeong Jae-eun, for which she earned Best Actress by the Korean Critics Association, the Korean Film Directors’ Society (Chunsa Film Art Award), and the whole South Korean entertainment industry with a PaekSang Arts Award. And in 2002 with Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, for which she earned a Best Actress at the Director’s Cut Awards, chosen by Korean Film Directors, and would lead to a future collaboration.

    After two weak films in 2003, Bae decided to take some time off from acting, in which she took up photography, and participated in the stage production of Sunday Seoul, co-written by Park Chan-wook.

    In 2005, she went across the sea, and starred in the Japanese cult hit Linda Linda Linda, playing a South Korean exchange student in a Japanese girl rock band trying to play at the school’s festival — for which she recorded an EP titled We Are Paranmaum under the name Paranmaum — by Nobuhiro Yamashita, which also became a favorite of the film festival circuit. The year after it, she had a supporting role in Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean biggest box office success The Host.

    Bae also appears on a few music videos, and has released Photo essays for London, Tokyo and Seoul. Finally, in 2009 she played an air sex-doll in the Japanese drama Air Doll by acclaimed director Hirokazu Koreeda. For the role, she earned Best Actress wins in festival circuits, as well as nominations at the Asian Film Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards.

    What’s next for Doona Bae? We have no idea. But if she’s making us wait another 3 years for a new movie on the big screen, and it’s as GOOD as Air Doll was when we waited those 3 years after The Host. Well, it’s all worth it.


  • Dubbing Gone Wrong: The Host

    Please, if you haven’t seen The Host (Gwoemul) — not the Twilight series writer one — and are thinking of watching, watching it subtitled and not dubbed. PLEASE.

    Don’t believe me? This is why~

    Sure, that scene is supposed to be funny… but that dubbing is HORRIBLE.


  • 20 Actors Between 25-30 to Watch until They’re 35

    I’m starting out my list this week… with lack of visitor’s response.

    No complaining from you then~~~

    I’m gonna start out with 5 of the guys, followed by 5 of the girls like last time. Only properly.

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  • Dear Viz Media: I Love You, but…

    You guys really REALLY need to work on what you call “Special Features”. It’s been a long time coming, but the review I sent to Amazon.com of Linda Linda Linda never showed up, even though I was reviewing the material in the DVD and even making suggestions… so it was a valid write-up.

    Last time I bought something in Amazon.com, my order included a copy for the Viz Media release for Tetsuya Nakashima’s Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma Monogatari) and Linda Linda Linda by Nobuhiro Yamashita.

    Where to start?

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  • quick me updates~ NY, I Love Ya (not) and other dvds

    Let’s see… just saw New York, I Love You.
    as far as my expectations, I was disappointed… I did like two of the shorts. I was entertained by Brett Ratner’s segment (Olivia Thirlby and Anton Yelchin), but my favorite has to be Joshua Marston’s segment with Cloris Leachman.

    Natalie Portman’s segment was okay… but her acting segment was kind of weak — plus, the bald cap she used (coz that was a bald cap, right?) bothered me a little because we know how her shaved head looks like.

    Because I wanted to see something new by Shunji Iwai, I had high expectations and was let down. Nothing really wrong with it. Christina Ricci is okay, and I guess Orlando Bloom is okay… but did it have to be him?

    I also got my screener for Precious, which I have seen already… but it’s nice to get to watch it on my DVD player. I’m getting ready to vote for Independet Spirit Awards ^^ Second time around!

    Amazon hasn’t published my DVD Review of Linda Linda… why is that? It was a perfectly fine constructive critic that would have made Linda Linda a better release. If they don’t publish it this week, I will publish it here.

    I’m almost done re-watching Pushing Daisies…
    These are my last DVD buys:

    • Pushing Daisies Season 1
    • Pushing Daisies Season 2
    • The Animatrix
    • Linda Linda Linda
    • Kamikaze Girls

  • If Only… Linda Linda Linda

    Once again… pimp the fandom!
    subscribe! and send your own If Only!

    nill… Bill, you included. xD

    4. Linda Linda Linda

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  • Air Doll Subbed Trailer

    Though I feel the trailer spoils the film a bit too much.
    The only person who can answer this is Julz…
    Does it?

    I love Kore-eda’s work and sensibilities as a director. He always gets to me. And doe-eyed Doona Bae is always so good to see. Perfect to play a blow-up doll. LOL

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI46dEsDaBM


  • Full Cycle YAM – 007

    Congrats, Amy! You’ve made it a year!
    Now please, get to work on that website you’ve been talking about all this time.

    Yeah, where is Nate? Yeah, that. Nate and I are working on something else, which is nothing at the moment… just a random gig, which will hopefully fuel our bank accounts a bit and let us work on YAM fully for a month or two…

    yam007_Dec09

    This is Julz 2nd straight cover. Hooray! Omedetou!!!

    In it she covered the Stockholm Film Festival… met Susan Sarandon xD, there’s a Q&A with Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, reviews for Precious, Up in the Air, Koreeda’s Air Doll, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, The Cove, Thirst, Dexter Season 4, Sasameki Koto, Family Outing, Les Amants Papillons, 2pm, Shinee, Rihanna, The Swell Seasons, Crowd Lu and more! Oh yeah! There’s also a Julz BSB concert review of their Worldwide This Is Us tour, and some Eva Ayllon. Coz we love variety…

    check it out over here.


  • Experiment Awards’ 2005

    I should be really working on these more often because there are 3 more left before I get to choose the ones from 2009~~~ This time around, I kind of feel like i didn’t get to watch many good films. It was really tough to find 3 animated films to include, and considered to just choose two instead, but I found 3 xD so I hope it’s not mostly filler~

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