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Entertainment › May. 20, 2013 - 06:48AM JST
BEIJING — China's television regulator has ordered a crack down on dramas about the country's battles with Japan during and before World War II and demanded they…
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Entertainment › May. 20, 2013 - 06:44AM JST
TOKYO — "Moe" promotion is in right now. Anything can be "moe-fied," and a cute persona can help sell anything from regular rice to smelly natto. Recently…
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Entertainment › May. 19, 2013 - 06:25AM JST
CANNES, France — Audiences at the Cannes Film Festival hailed a "moving" Japanese drama Saturday about two families who fall victim to a baby swap.
"Like Father, Like…
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Entertainment › May. 19, 2013 - 05:52AM JST
CANNES — After countless broken bones and smashed teeth, Jackie Chan has given up doing his own stunts and wants more serious roles but the Kung Fu…
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Entertainment › May. 18, 2013 - 06:58AM JST
TOKYO — From their humble beginnings on Taiwan’s video series "Weather Girls," a seven-girl idol group by the same name that specializes in bringing you the week’s…
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Entertainment › May. 17, 2013 - 12:32PM JST
LOS ANGELES — Candice Glover, a soul singer from rural South Carolina, was named "American Idol" on Thursday, becoming the first female singer to win the television singing…
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Entertainment › May. 17, 2013 - 06:51AM JST
LOS ANGELES — Sony has won the global distribution rights to an animated film based on the hit game "Angry Birds," to be released in 2016.
The film…
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Entertainment › May. 17, 2013 - 05:52AM JST
TOKYO — Watching Japanese performance artist Miyoko Shida’s physics-defying balancing act is a more intense experience than your closest game of Jenga, guaranteed.
Shida performed the unique,…
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Entertainment › May. 16, 2013 - 06:16AM JST
CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" opened on a soggy French Riviera.
Amid…
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Entertainment › May. 15, 2013 - 06:38AM JST
MANILA, Philippines — A film that weaves together stories of the anguish and desperation of American and Filipino soldiers during the notorious Bataan Death March could have been…
