Chinese director opens wounds in Yasukuni shrine film
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An elderly Japanese swordmaker painstakingly forges his final masterpiece in the opening sequence of "Yasukuni", Chinese documentary filmmaker Li Ying's exploration of a controversial Tokyo shrine.
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Top Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou  is tackling martial arts subjects these days with such  enthusiasm that one critic swears that knives, swords and  spears fly through his latest film with the force of "fatal  Frisbees."
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will  make his first visit to China next week in a bid to strengthen  ties, but with a breakthrough in a natural resources dispute  unlikely he could face further trouble back home.
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Three Japanese ministers paid homage at a  controversial shrine for war dead Sunday, the 59th anniversary  of Japan's World War II surrender, a move that drew anger from  Asian neighbors.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will make his first visit to China next week in a bid to strengthen ties, but with a breakthrough in a natural resources dispute unlikely, he could land in the hot seat back home.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should stop visiting a shrine China say symbolizes Japan&#39;s militaristic past as it hurts business ties, Kakutaro Kitashiro, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives said.
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An uncensored version of a Chinese film  was screened at the Berlin film festival on Friday, its  producer said, and the director told reporters she hoped she  did not live to regret making the controversial picture.
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Hollywood directors risk big budgets and  reputations when they work. Iraqi film makers risk their lives.
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The director of an Indian movie dealing with the 1984 massacre of Sikhs by angry Hindu mobs hopes to drive debate about the killings and force legal authorities to renew investigations.
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For decades, Chinese filmmakers haven't made a major feature film about one of their country's biggest wartime atrocities: the Nanjing massacre of 1937. Now at least two directors are preparing to make a movie set against the Japanese military's brutal killings in the former Chinese capital.
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âA Bloody Aria,â by the Korean director Won Shin-yun, is a sort of Asian âDeliverance.â
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Taiwan&#39;s former president Lee Teng-hui on Saturday fired a defiant shot at China during a visit to Japan, urging Tokyo to take a harder line in an emotive row over a war shrine.
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Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui visited a Tokyo war shrine Thursday to pay respects to his late brother, drawing a quick rebuke from China and complicating already delicate relations between Beijing and Tokyo.
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HONG KONG -- For decades, Chinese filmmakers haven't made a major feature film about one of the biggest wartime atrocities suffered by their country: the Nanjing massacre of 1937. Now  two directors are preparing to make movies set against the Japanese military's brutal killings in the former...
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Impermanence focuses the legendary Buddhist leader's aversion to violence and bloodshed, his yearning for peace and the utter futility of conflicts.
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The director and producers of  a documentary about Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted  war criminals are among the 2.5 million venerated souls, have  received multiple death threats from right-wing groups that  want to prevent the movie's local release.
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China&#39;s Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported on Friday.