Netflixで配信されている映画『ミックス・テープ』に、思いがけずハマってしまい驚きました。『エイス・グレード』や『トール・ガール』、『ハーフ・オブ・イット』、『See You Yesterday』といった、思春期の少女を主人公にした作品を思い出させる映画です。監督はハーバード出身の女性ヴァレリー・ワイス、脚本は『ハーフ・オブ・イット』のアリス・ウー。
日本版予告編では、THE BLUE HEARTSの「リンダ リンダ」に魅了される主人公ベバの姿が印象的です。日本語を理解できない彼女は、家の向かいに住むアジア系の少女に歌詞の意味を尋ねますが、相手は台湾人でした。両親を幼くして亡くし、若い祖母と暮らすベバ。祖母は母親のことを語ろうとせず、生活も決して楽ではありません。そんな中、屋根裏で偶然見つけたミックステープに母の思いを感じ取り、手がかりを求めて曲を探し始めます。しかしテープは壊れてしまい、ケースに記されたリストをもとに、レコード店の店員アンチ(本名エドワード)に少しずつ曲を分けてもらうことになります。
For Hollywood, 2023 will be remembered as a cruel summer, a dead reckoning of a different kind. That’s because bad news has piled up, highlighting a reshaping of the entertainment industry that has fueled uncertainty and triggered eruptions in labor unrest.ハリウッドにとって、2023 年は、これまでとは異なる推測による残酷な夏として記憶されることになるだろう。それは、不確実性を煽り、労働争議の勃発を引き起こしたエンターテインメント業界の再編を浮き彫りにする悪いニュースが山積しているからだ。
The first full day of a strike by Sag-Aftra had an immediate effect on Hollywood, as the industry ground to a halt over a contract with producers that would cover such wide-ranging issues as compensation and the future of AI in film and television.サグ・アフトラによるストライキの最初の丸一日は、ハリウッドに即座に影響を与えた。補償金や映画やテレビにおけるAIの将来など幅広い問題をカバーするプロデューサーとの契約をめぐって業界が停止に追い込まれたからだ。
Italy sweltered in temperatures reaching highs of 38C over the weekend, while Caronte will grip the country from Monday, sending the mercury beyond 40C in central and southern regions, with the islands of Sicily and Sardinia possibly hitting a peak of 48C.イタリアは週末にかけて最高気温38度に達するうだるような気温となったが、月曜からはカロンテが全国的に猛暑となり、中南部地域では水銀が40度を超え、シチリア島とサルデーニャ島では最高気温が48度に達する可能性がある。
Italian authorities have issued an “extreme” health risk for 16 cities including Rome and Florence this weekend as a heat wave that is baking Europe threatens to bring record temperatures.ヨーロッパを襲う熱波が記録的な気温をもたらす恐れがあるため、イタリア当局は今週末、ローマやフィレンツェを含む16都市に「極度の」健康リスクを与えると発表した。
One of the United Kingdom’s leading news anchors, Huw Edwards, was named by his wife on Wednesday as the BBC presenter who was suspended following allegations over payments for sexually explicit images.英国を代表するニュースキャスターの一人、ヒュー・エドワーズ氏が水曜日、露骨な性的映像の支払いに関する疑惑を受けて停職処分となったBBCの司会者として妻によって指名された。
Security minister Tom Tugendhat told Sky News: “I think the right thing to do is to allow the BBC to conduct whatever investigation they feel they need to do and to make sure that the family are not dragged into this.“After all, there’s one person who’s been alleged to have done wrong, not his whole family.”トム・トゥーゲントハット安全保障大臣はスカイニュースにこう語った。「私は、BBCが必要と感じるあらゆる調査を行うことを許可し、家族がこの事件に巻き込まれないようにするのが正しいことだと思う。」結局のところ、問題は1つある。
Japan will soon begin releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean following approval from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog for a controversial plan that comes 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog has approved plans by Japan to release more than 1m tonnes of water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean, despite objections from local fishing communities and other countries in the region.
The Japanese government on April 13 announced that it would dump contaminated water from Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. It is believed that this action will trigger irreversible damage to the global marine environment.この行為は地球規模の海洋環境に取り返しのつかない損害を引き起こすと考えられています。
A ship carrying 120 people caught fire off the Philippine island of Bohol, the country’s coast guard said Sunday.Videos shared by the Philippine Coast Guard showed flames rising from the rear of the MV Esperanza Star, with billows of black smoke.
At least 31 people are dead and seven injured in the Chinese city of Yinchuan, in northwest Ningxia region, after a gas explosion at a barbecue restaurant Wednesday night, according to state media.
Israeli forces launched what a military source said is its largest military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin in more than 20 years, killing at least eight people and injuring about 100 others, according to Palestinian officials.
Eighty Afghans may have been victim of summary killings by three separate British SAS units operating in the country between 2010 and 2013, lawyers representing the bereaved families have told a public inquiry.
The grandmother of a teenage boy, whose fatal shooting by police sparked five nights of rioting in France, has called for calm as authorities said the scale and intensity of the violence appeared to be waning, despite an arson attempt on a mayor’s home.
En cinq nuits et autant de journées de violences, les victimes directes d’incendies, de violences, de dégradations ou de vols se comptent en milliers. Un bilan qui aurait dépassé celui des émeutes de 2005, qui avaient pourtant duré trois semaines. En près de deux décennies, le contexte et les modes opératoires ont changé.
Japan, the only Group of Seven (G7) nation with no legal protection for same-sex unions, had originally pledged to pass the law before hosting the G7 leaders’ summit from May 19 to 21.
The sister arrangement between the two parks related to the beginning and end of the war will be a proof that mankind, despite making the mistake of waging a war, can come to its senses, reconcile and pursue peace,” Matsui said.
But representatives of hibakusha – survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – condemned the agreement as inappropriate, arguing that while the Pearl Harbor attack targeted a naval base, the bombing of Hiroshima indiscriminately killed large numbers of civilians.
Perhaps this weekend, when considering the mutiny of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group, his mind will have turned briefly towards a seemingly obvious Roman parallel: Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon and marching of his troops into Italy.
For months now, Prigozhin struck a chord with his charismatic and carefully choreographed front-line rants from Bakhmut where his fighters were dying in their hundreds so Putin could claim a tiny gain in his grindingly slow war in Ukraine.
Alexey Navalny, an imprisoned Russian opposition leader, says he’s reviving his Russian Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) after finding a way to sidestep Moscow’s ban on the organization.
Over the years, some Amazon workers have described the “grueling” experience of long hours racing around warehouses that can be the size of 28 football fields while the company tracks their every move.
“Amazon is one of the most valuable companies in the world, worth $1.3tn and its founder, Jeff Bezos, is one of the richest men in the world worth nearly $150bn,” Sanders wrote in the letter. “Amazon should be one of the safest places in America to work, not one of the most dangerous.
In a meeting in Beijing on Friday, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, traded warm smiles with Bill Gates and praised Mr. Gates as “the first American friend” he had met this year.
The Chinese academic Wang Shuo saw it as “a US-created crisis”. “The strategic selfishness of the US has brought more disasters to the world,” Wang grumbled on Wednesday in the state-run Global Times, blaming Washington’s “selfish and short-sighted action” for plunging Ukraine into war.
The US believes North Korea is testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in what the Biden administration called a “serious escalation” that would trigger more sanctions.
In spite of pressure from foreign media, the system of kisha clubs has effectively remained ever since, giving politicians and bureaucrats the power to cow journalists and media companies with the threat of being banned from briefings if they report negative or unflattering stories, DW
Former South Korean “comfort woman” Lee Yong-soo sits next to a statue symbolizing former South Korean “comfort woman” during the funeral of a former South Korean “comfort woman” Kim Bok-dong in Seoul, South Korea, February 1, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji – RC17366B54C0
Есть страничка фан-группы в одной из социальных сетей, которая не запрещена у нас в стране. Там, иногда попадается свежая информация о Наталье Поклонской, хотя, в основном, там архивные фото и какие-то факты из её биографии. А всё-таки хочется в такой значимый для страны праздник увидеть Наталью Поклонскую – настоящий, живой символ Крымской весны, участницу тех знаковых событий, которая поздравляет с этим, без преувеличения, великим праздником всю Россию, ведь народ её помнит и любит.
После начала войны в Украине Поклонская подверглась публичной критике из-за того, что назвала букву Z символом трагедии и горя.ウクライナでの戦争の勃発後、ポクロンスカヤは、文字Zを悲劇と悲しみの象徴と呼んだことで公に批判されました。
With all of the votes counted on Sunday, the right-wing National Coalition party (NCP) won 20.8% of the vote, with the populist, nation-first Finns party scoring 20.1%. Marin’s SDP took 19.9% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.9%.
Henry Miller once likened Oe to Dostoevsky, in his “range of hope and despair”, while Edward Said, a friend for 20 years, noted his “extraordinary power of sympathetic understanding”. Fellow laureate Kazuo Ishiguro once described him as “genuinely decent, modest, surprisingly open and honest, and very unconcerned about fame”, while his translator, John Nathan, credited him with “creating a language of his own, in the manner of Faulkner and few Japanese writers before him”.
He wrote about the plight of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and had in recent years taken part in rallies against former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to review Japan’s pacifist constitution.“By exercising collective self-defence, Japan will directly participate in a war,” Oe told people at a rally in 2014.“I’m afraid that Japan’s spirit is approaching its most dangerous stage in the past 100 years,” he added.Abe, who was assassinated last year, had long argued Japan needed a more assertive approach to defense, especially given China’s historic rise in recent decades.
It might have taken the Walt Disney company less than three years to overtake Netflix in streaming subscribers, but its road to domination started more than 15 years ago with a carefully planned $100bn (£81bn) strategy to reinvigorate its empire for 21st century viewers.
Soon after Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech in western Japan on Friday, Chinese nationalists began to celebrate his assassination bid on Weibo, sending him death wishes and terming the attacker a ‘hero’.
Yamagami’s mother, a longtime member of the church, reportedly gave it ¥100m [£618,000] in donations two decades ago, plunging their family into poverty.
He said his mother had made a “huge donation” to the church more than 20 years ago that had crippled the family’s finances.彼は、母親が 20 年以上前に教会に「多額の寄付」をしたため、家族の財政が破綻したと語った。
Dentsu, an advertising giant hard-wired into major Japanese institutions, stood to be Japan’s biggest winner of this year’s Games. But the pandemic has played havoc with those plans.
The Unification Church, originally known as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, was founded by Moon Sun-myung in 1954. It rose to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, an era of upheaval in South Korea, which at the time was transforming from a poor country torn apart by civil war to one of the world’s most modern economies.
Премьер-министр Японии Фумио Кисида, отвечая в понедельник в парламенте страны на вопрос депутата о том, намерены ли власти ввести новые санкций против России, заявил, что рассмотрение возможности этих мер произойдет на основе изучения дальнейшей ситуации.
(서울=연합뉴스) 오명언 기자 = 매회 자체 최고 시청률을 경신하고 있는 ENA 수목드라마 ‘이상한 변호사 우영우'(이하 ‘우영우’)가 시청률 10%를 돌파했다.21일 시청률 조사회사 닐슨코리아에 따르면 전날 오후 9시 방송된 ‘우영우’ 7회 시청률은 11.7%(비지상파 유료가구)로 집계됐다.7회에서는 우영우가 고속도로 건설을 반대하며 집단 소송을 걸고 나선 소덕동 주민들을 변호하는 과정이 그려졌다.
‘Hasta la vista, baby’: Boris Johnson’s last words at PMQs – video
Boris Johnson has signed off from the dispatch box in the House of Commons after taking part in his last PMQs with the words ‘Hasta la vista, baby’ – a reference to an Arnold Schwarzenegger line in Terminator 2. Johnson listed advice to his successor before receiving a standing ovation as he left the chamber
The argument for sacking Ian Foster was given a major boost on Saturday night when a collective groan across the country punctuated the All Blacks’ defeat at the hands of resilient Irish.
But in recent years, the country has signaled a move towards greater military spending, and last December Prime Minister Kishida announced the government was exploring options to give it the capability to strike enemy bases.China is considered a major threat, but the combined strength of Russia and China has put Japan under considerable pressure.
Snake catcher Nick Evans—who runs a snake removal and rescue service in the Greater Durban area—arrived to a property in Westville North, where a gardener had spotted two black mambas lurking in the bush.Black mambas are the longest venomous snakes in Africa. They can grow up to 14 feet in some cases, and their bite has a fatality rate of 100 percent if left untreated.
Alexey Navalny, an imprisoned Russian opposition leader, says he’s reviving his Russian Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) after finding a way to sidestep Moscow’s ban on the organization.
Soon after Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech in western Japan on Friday, Chinese nationalists began to celebrate his assassination bid on Weibo, sending him death wishes and terming the attacker a ‘hero’.
James Caan, the American actor renowned for his role as Sonny Corleone in the mafia epic The Godfather, as well as a string of key films in the 1970s, has died aged 82
Ippudo, which operates 50 ramen shops across the country, is offering endless free noodle refills for a fortnight from election day on Sunday until 24 June, the Mainichi Shimbun said, provided they can show proof that they have voted.全国に50店のラーメン店を営む一風堂は、日曜日の選挙日から6月24日までの2週間、無期限の無料ラーメンを提供していると、一風堂は投票した証拠を提示できればと述べた。
Enter the phenomenon of akiya, or ghost houses.A 2014 government report sounded the alarm, saying that, should things continue at the present rate, about 900 villages and towns throughout Japan will be “extinct.
The abandoned house crisis is so great that some areas are even giving homes away for free.But even free houses aren’t necessarily the cure for Japan’s akiya situation. While other countries with aging populations, like Italy, have given away or sold very cheap houses to foreigners, they often come with a visa or residency permit attached. Japan’s houses, though, do not.As a result, it can be hard to find people willing to live in the homes and fix them up, especially if they don’t speak Japanese or have access to a car.
General Alexander Dvornikov, who was reportedly previously in charge of the Russian offensive, has not been seen in public for weeks.“It appears to confirm that Colonel-General Gennady Zhidko is the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine,” tweeted military analyst Rob Lee of the Defense Ministry footage.
Earlier at Thursday’s hearing, Hutchinson told the House of Representatives select committee that Trump was told people at the January 6 rally had guns, knives and other weapons and was disappointed at them being turned away.She said: “I overheard the president say something to the effect of, ‘I don’t effing care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags [magnetometers] away. Let my people in, they can march to the Capitol from here.
Ukrainian high school seniors recently posed for a series of poignant graduation photos, juxtaposing their youth and tentative optimism with the horrifying devastation of war in their homeland.
Photographer Stanislav Senyk has used the destruction in the eastern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv as a sobering backdrop for an album of graduating high school students, amid the ongoing conflict with Russia pic.twitter.com/e2GVytwjwC
Jean-Louis Trintignant s’en est allé. Ce vendredi 17 juin 2022, c’est sa famille qui a annoncé la triste nouvelle à l’AFP. Il avait 91 ans. Tout au long de sa vie, le comédien aura vibré au rythme d’une passion dévorante pour la scène, sur petit et grand écran comme sur les planches.
После начала войны в Украине Поклонская подверглась публичной критике из-за того, что назвала букву Z символом трагедии и горя.ウクライナでの戦争の勃発後、ポクロンスカヤは、文字Zを悲劇と悲しみの象徴と呼んだことで公に批判されました。
Красочный забег в Москве состоится 5 июня 2022 года. Первый прошел в 2013-м году. Это один из самых веселых и ярких любительских беговых стартов столицы. В этот день все желающие смогут пробежать (а если захотят, и пройти) пять километров вокруг Олимпийского комплекса «Лужники», измазаться в краске и сделать яркие фотографии.
(CNN)Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered impassioned and at-times emotional remarks at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling the stories of those who died in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and urging more action on gun control.
Après des semaines d’un procès ultra-médiatisé, le jury a rendu son verdict dans l’affaire Depp-Heard. L’actrice américaine a été déclarée coupable de diffamation à l’encontre de son ancien époux.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the pain was “palpable” when he met with grieving families in Uvalde, Texas, this weekend following a mass shooting at an elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
“Your leadership has taken on a critical role in this global stage,” Biden said. “It really has – galvanising action on climate change; the global effort to curb violence, extremism, and online, like happened in Christchurch.”
The founder of one of the most feared terrorist organisations of the 1970s has walked free from a Japanese prison after completing a 20-year sentence for the siege of the French embassy in the Netherlands.Once described as “the empress of terror”, Fusako Shigenobu founded the Japanese Red Army, a radical leftist group that carried out armed attacks worldwide in support of the Palestinian cause.On Saturday, 76-year-old Shigenobu left the prison in Tokyo with her daughter as several supporters held a banner saying “We love Fusako”1970年代に最も恐れられていたテロ組織の1つである創設者は、オランダのフランス大使館の包囲で20年の刑を言い渡された後、日本の刑務所から解放されました。かつて「恐怖の皇后」と呼ばれた重信房子は、パレスチナの大義を支持して世界中で武力攻撃を行った過激な左翼グループである日本赤軍を設立しました。土曜日、76歳の重信は娘と一緒に東京の刑務所を去りました。何人かの支持者が「私たちはフサコが大好きです」というバナーを掲げていました。