Masataka Kubota has his pen out again in a bid to rid the world of baddies and villainy. Only this time not so psychotically as in his role as Death Note's Light Yagami. Television's Kira actor will be on Japanese screens again from January 17th (21st in Indonesia) 2016 playing one half of a crime fighting duo in the English titled Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa. Kubota stars as the latter - Arisu Arisugawa - who teams up with his friend to solve cases that have foxed police agencies. Takumi Saito plays his detective partner Hideo Himura. The TV mystery crime drama is produced by Nippon TV, and it is based upon the Hideo Himura Series novels by Arisu Arisugawa (1992). |
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The roles are just rolling in for Nat Wolff! The American actor's calendar is quickly becoming inundated with work for 2016 - the year in which he's strongly rumoured (practically confirmed) to be playing Light Yagami in the US live-action Death Note movie remake. Shooting on Adam Wingard's Death Note film is meant to begin in the Spring. However, Nat Wolff has just been booked to appear in theatrical performances of Buried Child, running off-Broadway from February 17th through to March 13th 2016 (with previews for critics starting on Feb. 2nd). Wolff will be playing Vince, whose arrival at his grandparent's farm throws everything into chaos. He's left trying to explain to girlfriend Shelley why nobody seems to recognize him, amongst a family where sanity is held by a thread and dark secrets seek to arise. A task made all the more heart-breaking and confusing, as he doesn't understand the reasons why himself. Playwright Sam Shepherd won a Pulitzer Prize for penning Buried Child. It will be staged at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, in NYC's Pershing Square Signature Center. With soon-to-be Kira actor Nat Wolff taking his place in The New Group theatrical company, under the direction of Scott Elliott. This is in addition to other recently announced parts for Nat Wolff in 2016. He'll be starring as Jim Nolan in James Franco's movie In Dubious Battle, and also as Doug, a creepy loner who snatches and imprisons a woman expecting her conform to his will, in Jessica Manafort's film Rosy. While strongly expected to squeeze in global domination, the God of this New World arisen as Light Yagami in the American Death Note movie. By the look of it, Nat Wolff is halfway there before his shinigami even dropped a notebook. At least in terms of utter ubiquity! Soon we'll be able to work out when Death Note filming in the USA will occur, just by looking for the gaps in Nat Wolff's diary. Twitter has been in uproar, cheering on and retweeting US actress Arden Cho's comments about the US live-action Death Note movie, and its strangely Caucasian casting choices thus far. Known for her bad-ass role as Kira Yukimura in TV drama Teen Wolf, Arden Cho was scathing about Death Note casting overlooking Asian actors in the USA. She initially Tweeted: Then, in response to Lauren, a commenter who wrote, 'MANY talented Asian actors/actresses to choose from and yet they whitewash the whole film!' Arden posted: Source: Twitter Nor had she finished there. Finally, Arden Cho had a greeting for Edward Zo (possibly tipped off by the furore on Twitter regarding her comments about whitewashing Death Note): Source: Twitter Asian-American actor Edward Zo had previously - and quite famously - been vocal on the subject of Death Note US live-action movie auditions excluding Asian actors. Silence means approval and neither Arden nor Edward are prepared to be silent on this issue. Nor are a whole lot of other people judging by the amount of retweets and replies each exposee and protest prompted.
What do you think? Remember three years ago, when none of us could get Gangnam Style out of our heads? Well Death Note fans are in for another bout of that. How can we help it upon placing Psy, after hearing that he's bringing Death Note actor Xia in on his long-awaited Gangnam Style follow up Dream. Xia, aka Kim Junsu, played L in the Korean version of Death Note the Musical. Which is how this collaboration came about. Psy went to see the Death Note Musical, and decided there and then that Junsu was the man to sing with him on Dream. As he revealed to fans on Psy Little Television - an app broadcast by Napper V - on November 25th 2015. Dream is described as a 'sad song' (so not at all like Gangnam Style really) dedicated to KPop performer, musician, producer and Ghost Nation radio DJ Shin Hae-Chul. He was the man who brought techno music to Korea, and who died in October 2014 due to medical malpractice. Psy claimed that Xia's 'heartfelt' performances as L, in Death Note's 'heart-breaking scenes', made him the perfect choice to add vocals to Psy's homage to Shin Hae-Chul. "The song is full of sadness," Psy wrote about Dream. "And I thought long and hard about who could convey that." Dream will be released on December 1st 2015. Psy will debut it at the MNET Asian Music Awards staged the following day, though it's uncertain whether Xia will be joining him. 2016 looks to be a big year for Light Yagami actor Nat Wolff. In addition to starring in the American live action Death Note adaptation, he will feature in two other movies that year. Nat Wolff is playing Jim Nolan, the idealistic leader of a 900 strong workers' rights movement rising up in 1930s California, in James Franco's dramatization of John Steinbeck's 'desperately honest' novel In Dubious Battle. Finding the 'courage never to submit or yield', Nolan took on landowners with an impassioned zeal that saw him elevated to almost Christ-like proportions among the starving Californians he inspired fight back. Like Christ, he was ultimately doomed - sacrificed to the cause of maintaining the hegemony and demonstrating their overlord's might. Based on a true story, In Dubious Battle describes the real world struggle of striking apple and peach pickers in Tulare County. It was called 'courageous' when Steinbeck wrote it, and subsequently highly suppressed. (Probably in case it caused the good folk of Visalia remember their history and take it upon themselves to fight injustice again. But mostly because it was perceived to 'promote' Communism.) Nevertheless - and as a definite point in his favour insofar as I'm concerned - President Barack Obama cited In Dubious Battle as his favourite Steinbeck novel. The movie is currently in post-production, due for release sometime in 2016. Also just announced is Nat Wolff's casting in Jessica Manafort's Rosy. He will be taking on the role of Doug, a lonely, young man who abducts an actress named Rosy. He expects her to bow to his every whim, but she proves a much more difficult prospect than that.
The part of Rosy is as yet uncast in this indie thriller. I love Japanese actor Maeda Goki. We know him as Touta Matsuda in TV's Death Note drama, wherein he delighted, charmed and downright became our character. I mean look at him! Can you imagine anyone else now being Matsuda in live-action adaptations of the story? We've been spoiled. But more than that, he's the kind of celebrity who constantly reaches out to fans, letting us share in his experiences and his world. Throughout the drama's run, Goki was forever Tweeting, Tumblr-ing, Instagramming and whatever other word I've probably just made up to describe his fabulous ubiquity online. He's been a great source of behind the scenes Death Note sneak previews and fun. Like ninja-ing in to take pictures of colleagues between takes, then apparently copying their stance for his own photographs: Maeda Goki captured in the mirror photographing L actor Kento Yamazaki between takes at Death Note (2015) - before posing in Kento's position Source: Instagram @gokimaeda Or giving us close up images of props from Death Note TV drama: Occasionally even lifting items from the filming lot and sneaking them out to present to fans at promotional events. As with whatever this was here - *checks Google Translate* - a marshmallow apparently. Sometimes even taking requests from followers on various social media, and doing them too. During Maeda Goki's spell on Death Note, folk asked him to cosplay Death Note characters other than his own. He did. This was the result: Death Note Actor Maeda Goki Accounts on Social Media You may find, follow and interact with Matsuda actor Maeda Goki here:
Did Nat Wolff Just Indirectly Confirm Involvement in the US Live Action Death Note Movie?19/11/2015 It's possible to read too much into things, when you're starved of information and the snippets are too few and far between. However, when strongly rumoured US Death Note movie casting for Light Yagami actor Nat Wolff has kept a resolute silence on the subject, then suddenly tweets a story linking himself and Margaret Qualley both with the project... Well I'm sure I'm not the only one drawing conclusions in the sand. Nat & Alex Wolff retweet of Variety article re Margaret Qualley cast in Death Note (Twitter, November 12th 2015) The Variety magazine Tweet that Nat Wolff - or possibly brother Alex - shared with his followers linked to its news report entitled ‘The Leftovers’ Star Margaret Qualley Joins Nat Wolff in ‘Death Note’ (by Justin Kroll, Nov 12th 2015). Assuming that Nat knows things that we don't know (i.e. the reality and status of those 'final negotiations' concerning his casting as Light Yagami); also that he knows the truth at the heart of all those news articles citing his own girlfriend as the 'leading lady' in Death Note's US live action movie adaption; and furthermore that Nat Wolff wouldn't want to spread disinformation amongst his fans on Twitter. I conclude that everything written in the Variety piece about the Death Note movie is true insofar as Nat Wolff knows. Fair enough with everyone else? So what do we know from it about this American Death Note film remake?
Therefore nothing that we didn't already know, but this time we know it with a touch more certainty.
The internet is currently abuzz with news that the Adam Wingard directed US Death Note live action movie is about to cast its Misa Amane. Margaret Qualley (Jill Garvey in HBO's The Leftovers) is apparently in final talks to play the 'female lead' - according to an article in The Hollywood Reporter ('Leftovers' Actress Margaret Qualley in Talks to Join Adam Wingard's 'Death Note' (Exclusive) by Borys Kit, November 12th 2015) - though presumably that is Misa. Margaret Qualley and Nat Wolff - Real Life Couple to Play American Death Note's Misa and Light? This relatively unknown US actress also played Raquel in the 2013 drama movie Palo Alto, wherein she co-starred with Nat Wolff - the actor strongly believed to have been cast as US Death Note's Light Yagami. However, it's a little bit more than that. Margaret and Nat have been dating since 2012. If both of these 'final negotiations' rumours are true, then we will be seeing an established long-term real life couple playing Misa and Light in the live action US Death Note movie. Who is Potential Misa Actress Margaret Qualley? Born in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 23rd 1994, her full name is Susan Margaret Qualley, The mooted Death Note actress has even more famous familial credentials. Her mother is A-list Hollywood actress Andie MacDowell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Green Card, Sex, Lies and Videotapes, Multiplicity) from her first marriage with male model Paul Qualley. Her sister Rainey Qualley is also an actress - recently seen in Falcon Song, Pink & Baby Blue and the TV series Mad Men - as well as a touring musician. Rainey opened for Loretta Lynn earlier this year, while her debut single Me and Johnny Cash is currently making waves in Country circuits. Margaret Qualley originally trained as a ballerina, performing at the American Ballet Theatre and joining the North Carolina Dance Company. She was apprenticed at the French Academy in New York, before moving to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Naturally the latter signalled a shift in outlook, whereby Margaret now sought to follow in her mother's footsteps as an actress. Here she is in her most famous role to date, as Jill Garvey in The Leftovers. Whitewashing Death Note Again? White American Actress in Misa Amane Role If true, the casting of Margaret Qualley as Misa is bound to cause controversy, just as did the role of Light Yagami linked with Nat Wolff.
Neither American actors are ethnically Japanese, though they will be portraying Japanese characters. While Hollywood is long past getting away with blackening white actors faces to play other races, the industry stands accused of employing its modern equivalent to endemic proportions. In short, ethnically Asian actors need not apply for leading roles in Hollywood pictures, not even when the parts up for grabs are Asian characters. As North American actor Edward Zo discovered, when he sought to audition for Light Yagami. The furore here is already raging, as regards Death Note's US live action film. Margaret Qualley's casting in the role of Misa Amane is unlikely to help matters there. Though in fairness, Misa looks less Asian than Margaret. Fans in Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia are currently enjoying high definition airings of the Death Note TV drama courtesy of the GEM Channel. The television network is the sparkly new collaboration between Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and Nippon Television (NTV). It includes exclusive shows from both companies portfolios, as well as a clutch of other programming too. Eventually GEM will be beaming Death Note into South Korea, Taiwan and other Asia territories too, including China, which will surely go down well. Read: * Chinese Cyber Authority Cracks Down on Death Note * Death Note Fans in China Dodge the Censor For the rest of us, there's a nice selection of images from the Death Note television drama, courtesy of NTV, highlighted on the GEM Channel Death Note show webpages. Some of which are reproduced here, above and below. In addition, there's a synopsis of the show, programming information (every Monday and Tuesday at 8pm (JKT) and 9pm (BKK)) and profiles on various cast members, including Yutaka Matsushige as Soichiro Yagami, Hinako Sano as Misa Amane, Kento Yamazaki as L, Mio Yuki as Near and Masataka Kubota in his award-winning performance as Light Yagami. A nice touch there is the trivia end-piece on each actor, informing us for example that Yutaka Matsushige is one of the tallest actors in Japan (he's 6ft 2") and Mio Yuki's real name is Rina Kanno. She was launched into stardom after winning a HoriPro talent contest in 2012. In Other News... Meanwhile, there's an apology to make. Much hecticness and chaos behind the scenes a few months ago at Death Note News meant that our analytical reviews of the last few episodes of the drama were never published. Nor indeed written, though much enjoyment was had in actually watching the show! We intended to. It's just that the write ups never made our To Do list, thus were overlooked and finally forgotten entirely. They might never have appeared if one of our readers hadn't been on the ball. Grace Butler has given us the nudge (politely and very sweetly), hence those Death Note (2015) reviews are back on the list to do. Thanks Grace! And sorry to all who have been waiting on them. In the meantime, here are the Death Note News analytical reviews of Death Note drama episodes so far. Reviews & Critical Analysis of TV Death Note Drama Episodes Death Note actress Aya Hirano has left hospital after a successful operation to remove her tonsils. This following a year in which engagements have been missed due to frequent hospital stays due to chronic tonsillitis, including a recent live performance of the anime White Album. Best known to fans here as the voice of Misa Amane in the Japanese Death Note anime, Aya Hirano worried in her blog that illness and/or the procedure might irrevocably damage her voice. Later she reassured readers that removing her troublesome tonsils can only improve it. She seems now to be home and well, ready to pick up her career, starting with another live appearance at the Dai AQUAPLUS Matsuri event, on November 28th 2015, at Tokyo's Ryōgoku Kokugikan.
Could he have had much more confidence in his own abilities? L would quite happily instruct world leaders, decision makers, law enforcement agencies and other powerful people the world over, and feel himself entitled through dint of superior intellect to do that. It's often played bordering upon arrogance. Criminal arrogance at that, when we factor in his propensity to order the televised death of one prisoner (Lind L Taylor) and torture of others (Light Yagami and Misa Amane). Also in Another Note, Mello implies that L was responsible for the demise of several private investigators - not only the trio named, but hundreds casually collated as a number - as he took their detective codes. Am I the only one who read that as physical killing? Or otherwise causing to stop breathing? Add eleven years more to that mindset and I can see only one of two options - either L's confidence crumbled under the rigours of life and perspective, or it grew into yet more terrible proportions. There was always little difference between himself and Kira, with regard to their worldly outlook and serial killer tendencies, which is what made the battle between them so intriguing. How Might L Look at 36 Years Old? If your head canon allows for Kenichi Matsuyama to remain as L for the rest of his life, then we can imagine how the Death Note detective might age. At least until thirty years old, because that's how old Kenichi is now. Just watch the actor age, then extrapolate six years more. What Might Be AU Death Note L's Life on his 36th Birthday? Assuming that L's survival meant that he beat Kira, then the world would be his oyster - even more so than at 25, when he could command Interpol and Japanese police officers for the asking. Yet success in that case couldn't have been easy. I'm not talking about the clash of minds itself, as L appeared to be thoroughly enjoying that, right up until Kira cheated via deployment of a suicidal shinigami. I'm talking about the terrible cost of succeeding in such circumstances. L would have had a taste of meeting a mind akin to his own. Then losing it. What happens after that? Victory might feel rather hollow without the thrill of psychological battle and a strange kind of kinship. It could leave him regretting emerging quite so triumphant, and that's a potential dent in his confidence. If nothing else came along quickly to fill the void, then life might seem to have lost its sparkle. Demotivating L to the point of potentially throwing in the towel on his detective career. All kind of directions open up then. He might take refuge in simplicity. Becoming a doorman like Christopher Langan - US man estimated to have an IQ as high as 210, thus too clever to tie up his time doing a job that denied him time to think upon his own current interests. L might sink under cynicism. Seeking something and finding nothing to the point when the pressure causes his psyche to collapse under its own negative perceptions. Whole plot bunnies here in L becoming a parody of Beyond Birthday's own dark parody of L himself. Or he could strike off in another avenue of inquiry and become a brilliant scientist, theologian, philosopher or emulate Wammy as an inventor. Any number of possibilities here, limited only by his imagination, as delineated by the fan fiction writer. But whichever way he turns, trouble is being stored up in the background. Death Note's Wammy's House When L is Thirty-Six It's one thing telling a bunch of 12-14 year olds that they're being trained and competing to become L's heir and successor, but what happens when they're 22-24? Particularly when they have the intellect to potentially hold the L title in their own right. We have a precedent in reaching adulthood as a Wammy kid, being told that your only reason to be is to wait in line as L's back up. Beyond Birthday turned serial killer in an attempt to lure L out. A took his own life. So what of those remaining at Wammy's House in this alternative Death Note universe, wherein L didn't die and therefore Near, Mello and Matt emerged to take over the Kira case? It ended badly for A and Beyond Birthday, but they were both working alone. Near and Mello have already shown that they can 'surpass L', if they join forces. They just have to mature enough to put aside their manufactured rivalry as a distraction from their own enforced position on the detective code conveyor belt. Mello and Matt have already proven that they can work together. Whether singly, in pairs, groups or en masse, surely L is going to suffer an onslaught of grown up Wammy kids rebelling against their childhood rendition and expected adult position; stepping out of the fold, or else buying into it and seeking him out with the succession in mind. Regardless of whether their predecessor still occupies the position into which they've been raised to succeed. After all, L's own benchmark was to take the code, no matter what and - if the implications in Another Note hold true - those Wammy heirs have been tutored from childhood to consider cheating and/or murder a valid avenue to winning. The back up(s) are coming to bite him in the precedent. Those are my musings. What do you think L and his world would look like, if he had lived long enough to celebrate his 36th birthday today?
Masataka Kubota Best Actor Speech at the 86th Drama Academy Awards Unfortunately without subtitles, here is how Masataka Kubota received his Best Actor Award for Light Yagami in Death Note 2015 television drama. If anyone would like to proffer a translation - or the general gist in summary - we'd all be very grateful. Japanese readers may also enjoy Walker Plus's interview with Masataka Kubota upon winning Best Actor for playing Light Yagami. No-one else will, as the translation programs absolutely scramble it beyond all comprehension. Yes, we'd love to know what he said there too. Thank you in advance.
TV Drama Death Note in Television Drama Academy Awards
It was only a matter of time before fan uploaded recordings of a televised Death Note the Musical performance showed up on-line.
Several individuals have done just that on YouTube, though I imagine it won't be long before the copyright holders shoot them down. Especially if DVD sales are a thing in mind for the future. But first check out the trailer, as shown on WOWOW Channel in Japan, to advertise upcoming theatrical performances of the musical Death Note on TV.
Trailer for WOWOW Channel Death Note the Musical on television October 17th 2015
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The full versions of Death Note the Musical production shown below were all captured from the Japanese WOWOW TV airing on October 17th 2015. It stars Kenji Urai as Light Yagami, alongside Teppei Koike (L), Fuuka Yuzuki (Misa Amane), Ami Maeshima (Sayu Yagami), Megumi Hamada (Rem), Koutaro Yoshida (Ryuk) and Joji Saiga (Soichiro Yagami).
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Actor Edward Zo is the latest to comment on the whitewashing furore surrounding the US live action Death Note movie.
Yet his might be the hardest-hitting commentary to date, simply because it relates personal experience to back up what so many are saying about inappropriate casting bias. Ever since a strong rumour circulated that Nat Wolff (Paper Towns, Naked Brothers' Band) will star in the Death Note US remake, there has been much dissent amongst the masses. Voices raised on Twitter and other social networks, petitions, and a lot of angry talk elsewhere. The issue being that Light Yagami is a Japanese man, who is being played by a white American half-Jewish actor. The important fact there being 'white'. It feeds into a wider, quite repugnant tradition, whereby only white actors are cast in meaningful roles (or indeed 'roles' full-stop much of the time). Even if it means changing the ethnicity of the character in order to do so. But one American actor - who was told openly not to bother auditioning for Death Note because he's too Asian - is hitting back. Edward Zo's Racist Hollywood? Death Note Whitewashing YouTube Testimony
Edward Zo's video message to Hollywood is twenty minutes long, yet well worth affording the time to watch.
It's not merely a rant from an actor feeling entitled to something because of his ethnicity. It's an intelligent, multi-faceted look at the inherent racism of the film industry as a whole. There's plenty of background, giving history and context, before zooming in on the specifics facing 'actors of colour' in Hollywood today. Not least that there just aren't that many roles with 'layers and depths' available for those who aren't white. Light Yagami should have been one of them. This isn't just about an actor thwarted in a sought after part. It matters in a much wider setting. Zo emphasizes the fact that visibility is key here. One demographic dominates the movie industry, and media per se. Whether we wish it or not, such things corrupt our perceptions of other cultures, races, classes, or whatever else feels unknown despite being part of the same human story. Edward Zo is not Bruce Lee, nor is he Jackie Chan, yet he frequently encounters folk for whom those two gentlemen are their only frame of reference for his skin colour and features.
For Death Note fans, there's the added impetus of Zo's personal experience. A manga fan since childhood, he has long been passionate about Death Note.
Hence the excitement when he learned that a live action Death Note movie was being made in his native USA. It sounded like the kind of vehicle crying out for talented Asian-American actors. He couldn't be more wrong. Informal inquiries, regarding auditions for his dream role of Light Yagami, led to the grapevine rustling back some unsettling news. This would have been an amazing opportunity for an actor of colour, for an Asian actor, to take the global stage and break barriers and break stereotypes... (but) they were not looking to see Asian actors for the role of Light Yagami.
Despite being blatantly told not to bother applying, Edward Zo brushed aside the grapevine rhetoric enough to pursue the part through official channels. He asked his manager to submit his profile to Death Note's casting director.
He heard nothing back. Just the news that we all heard, which is that Nat Wolff is in 'final negotiations' to play Light Yagami. No Asian actor at all, but an apple pie, ex-Nickelodeon, white American. Not that Edward Zo has anything against Nat Wolff. He enjoyed the Naked Brothers Band and thought Wolff was great in his recently released movie Paper Towns. Nor is any of this necessarily Nat Wolff's fault. Nevertheless, it feels, smells and looks like cultural imperialism from Zo's point of view.
Edward Zo highlights another example of Hollywood whitewashing The Cultural Approximation of Death Note
Nat Wolff's lead role casting in Death Note conveys a message loud and clear to all Asians watching. Summed up, in Zo's own words, as:
Our version of your story does not include you.
Hollywood is happy to take stories from all over the world; authors may be any ethnicity, colour, race, creed, hail from any country, write in any language. But their tale will be told through a culturally white Protestant lens.
Thus it becomes white Protestant by tradition, as the loudest voice is usually the one most heard. While the current highly extensive fandom is well aware that Death Note is Japanese, a whole new audience about to be exposed to a potential block-buster which swears that this is an American story. Does that matter in the long run? Well put it this way, when you think of Romeo and Juliet, is it a Shakespearian play set in Verona? Original author Masuccio Salernitano would be amazed to find that his tale moved out of Tuscany and no-one today recalls that it was ever there. And just ask the Welsh what contortions King Arthur went through after being wrestled from our grasp. Let's just say that nothing in the legend now looks like it does in the fragments that remain of our heritage. Cultural approximation can so easily become cultural imperialism. That's the warning Edward Zo makes with regard to Death Note. Today Japanese, tomorrow white American. Assuming it doesn't flop like other whitewashed Asian films. We're all looking at you, Dragonball Z and Airbender. But the actor remains defiant. Mobilizing on Behalf of Asians in Hollywood - Edward Zo's Rallying Call
Take it from a Briton, Americans really don't like being told they're liable for taxation without representation. Nor any of its modern equivalents. Like 'buy tickets for movie presentations without being in them'.
Hard work and persistence is supposed to realise the American Dream. If no hope in its actuality exists, then the good folk Stateside tend to bite back... Dear Hollywood, you cannot just bleach the soul out of Death Note literally and then expect the rest of us not to notice. Because we noticed.
... and start revolutions.
It's up to us as young people to vocalise and to mobilize whenever we see something that is not right.
And older people too. I'm so far past young, that Edward Zo looks barely old enough to be out of diapers, but I heard and I vocalised. A life-long believer that silence means approval and no change was ever made without each of us speaking up wherever we perceive something wrong.
Especially when it seems endemic, institutionalized and so commonplace that we barely notice unless its pointed out. Edward Zo pointed out something important here, and it behoves us to listen to what he has to say. Else nothing ever changes and this one is far bigger than even Death Note. Books about Whitewashing Hollywood
It seems that I jumped the gun a little last week, when I posted something before it had officially been announced.
Ooops. To be fair though, I wasn't officially tipped off either. Nor did anything intimate time sensitivity. And information does want to be free. I stumbled across the recruitment form for extras on Death Note 2016 and told you all about it on September 29th. Warner Japan have only just announced it. Ahead of the game. Oh yeah! Here's the Warner JP Tweet all about it, posted today (October 5th 2015):
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