Some brief thoughts over at coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com today.

I'm enjoying Yen's career resurgence as an action star in his late 40s, in a role taken previously by Bruce Lee and Jet Li.

Happy 70th Birthday to Florinda Bolkan, February 15.

I don't understand why more of the better known critics didn't list this with the best DVDs of 2009. The deleted ending, filmed in color, is one of the most eye opening endings. I also read Ibuse's novel, and Imamura only took a small part, and created the rest of the narrative. In the novel, Yoshiko, is not the main character. The original ending by Imamura is look at how Hiroshima has been remembered.