Wasn't that guy also in Tremors?

oy! no hopping off and avoiding your fate, you ersatz-Hazel.

"I bet that they all look alike to you, don't they Esquilax?"

humans at any rate; I'm sure your long-eared 4-legged brethren are all distinctive individuals to you.

I liked Pat Morita quite a bit but he never really had much of an acting role (not even in the Karate Kid movies). Then again, he was a comedian turned actor so I don't know if he really was that good of an actor.

James Hong is even more ubiquitous.

*footnote*
It is a known fact that Wabbits are myopic but truly vain. The Hare Horse chimera has been in need of corrective lenses but shuns them, blaming his floppy ears for most errors in vision.

Damn, I didn't hop away fast enough! And Indy, that is an outrageous lie! *Begins preening and buffing claws on chest* We Hare-Horses are not vain! Arrogant yes, but then we *are* the epitome of evolution. *Walks off polishing glasses*

*epitome of evolution*

tsk, that Mother Nature eh? who'd have thought it?

edit - *chim ae ra*







Edited by - Tawakalna on 11/28/2005 2:58:32 PM

Silence puny human! Lest "The Powers That Be" lock this thread!

*edit* chim e ra.

ae it's greek, it's at least a dipthong.

"Hyeee Yaahhh" *Chops bottles in half*

Back on topic , if its possible

"He had a comic's perspective and sense of humor, and would play his parts - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, whatever - with relaxed professionalism. As a standup comedian in the 1960's, he called himself "the Hip Nip," and he once told a group of Pearl Harbor survivors in a Waikiki nightclub that he was sorry about messing up their harbor.

Mr. Miyagi remains everybody's idea of a positive character. Who can forget "wax on, wax off," his wise counsel linking car care to karate? But still, it bother me Miyagi-san so wise, but find so hard use articles, pronouns when talk.

Mr. Morita's legacy may soon take a posthumous turn for the better. He has a role in an unreleased movie, "Only the Brave," about Japanese-American soldiers of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, one of the most decorated units in World War II. He plays a Buddhist priest who is imprisoned in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor.

Lane Nishikawa, who wrote, directed, produced and acted in the film, which is now making the rounds of festivals in search of a distributor, said it told its story from the Asian-American point of view - an unusual perspective, by past or current standards.

With its wide pool of Asian-American talent, including Mr. Morita, Tamlyn Tomita and Jason Scott Lee, the film promises to be at least different from the other movie about the 442nd.

That one -"Go for Broke!" - was made in 1951 and starred Van Johnson, with a large, and utterly forgotten, supporting cast."

-Lawrence Downes
NY Times - Nov. 29, 2005

Edited by - Indy11 on 11/29/2005 7:25:28 PM

I have "Go For Broke!" on video and it's a worthy enough film for its day (1951?) although to modern eyes it seems simplistic and patronising. If it had been approached the way "Attack!" was just a few years later, it would have been much better.

This is going to be very Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers in style and content, ay betcha. I'm sure I'm going to like it. I thought you didn't like war films very much.

Funny you should say it's such a famous story, I was always under the impression that outside of the Nisei communities of Hawaii and to some extent California, hardly anyone in the US mainland knew about the 442nd, most attention on minorites having been given to the Navajo *Windtalkers* and African-American combat veterans.

I didn't say it was famous. The NY Times opinion writer did. That said, it isn't all that obscure. Certainly WW2 history buffs usually know about it as well as many who are into things military.

The stories of the Windtalkers, the 442nd, the Black Eagles and the Red Ball Express are somewhat equal in reputation. It depends on the current mood of the day, which happens to be better publicized. In the 21st Century, the most recent movies and tv drama are about the Windtalkers and the Black Eagles.

In the time of Watergate, the story of the 442nd regained publicity because one of the Senators in the committee Hearings was Daniel K. Inouye,
a WW2 veteran and former sgt. and combat platoon leader in the "regimental combat team."

sorry didn't catch the quotation marks.

*feels flattered that a professional writer's work would be mistaken for his own*