
Calling all Jin fans... Todd Angkasuwan's
No Sleep 'Til Shanghai is out on DVD this week. It's a documentary that follows Jin's eight-city tour of Asia in the fall of 2004. It's an interesting look at hip hop and its fans from a global perspective, seen through the eyes of Jin visiting the so-called "motherland." You can get it at the usual online retailers like
Amazon.com
. For more information about the film go
here. Check out Todd Angkasuwan's MySpace page
here (there's apparently a DVD release party on Wednesday in Phoneix, AZ). And view the teaser trailer
here.
Some other notable titles out on DVD this week...
Letters From Iwo Jima
, Clint Eastwood's World War II epic told from the Japanese perspective of the Iwo Jima conflict;
Afro Samurai
, the totally insane Spike TV animated series based on Takashi Okazaki's manga, directed by Fuminori Kizaki, featuring the voice of Samuel L. Jackson and music by The RZA;
Kitchen Confidential
, the short-lived Fox comedy that featured John Cho in the regular cast (but obviously not important enough to include on the cover art);
You Only Live Twice
, the James Bond flick where 007 is surgically altered (yellowface!) to go undercover as a Japanese guy;
Epic Movie
, starring Kal Penn in a godawful-looking spoof of big-budget blockbusters; and I've already mentioned several times how much I love Desmond Nakano's internment camp baseball drama
American Pastime
.
And finally, I just found that
The Grace Lee Project DVD is now available for home video purchase through
Women Make Movies. It's a clever, charming documentary about the filmmaker's personal search for Grace Leeone of the most common names in Asian Americaand the women who break the typical mold. I love this film, and I plan on buying a copy. Highly recommended viewing. And if you're name is also Grace Lee, well, it's like required viewing.