Here’s another preview of Space Battleship Yamato, otherwise known as Star Blazers in the states.  More scenes and action revealed.

Three new Kamen Rider movies coming out involving Den-O.

http://www.den-o-3.com

5.22 Episode Red – Zeronos
6.5 Episode Blue – New Den-O
6.19 Episode Yellow – Diend

Youtube: Kamen Rider Cho Den-O Trilogy

Weird Al Yankovic movie trailer or parody movie trailer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcNuiri2dV0

The Karate Kid is a classic and they really should name this something else like the Kung Fu Kid.  Karate is not Kung Fu so most people who have never seen the original with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita will be puzzled by the title.  Anyways despite all that this is supposed to be a remake and it looks kind of cool.  Who knows how the movie will really turn out with Jackie Chan and Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith.

I recently watched the first Karate Kid over again and it was great.  The setting was in California and for most Japanese Americans this was really one of the first movies where a Japanese American actor was one of the main characters.  Besides being a Okinawan Karate master and handyman, Mr. Miyagi was also a veteran.  His character fought in World War II and received a Silver Star in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team or the 100th Battalion, which were mostly composed of Nisei.

The movie was called Karate Kid but karate was really just used as a tool to build up Daniel-san’s confidence and strength.  Wax on, wax off and the quirky or unrealistic training methods really didn’t matter although it adds to the original movie’s entertainment value.  Instead of teaching him karate, he was really teaching him how to live his life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMsZM-MNI1A (Official Trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxBQS_Qn5m8 (Official Trailer 2)

This looks pretty cool although I am not really into Gaiking.

Looks like Space Battleship Yamato is being made into a live action movie with Kimura Takuya.  Looks like Kuroki Meisa is in it too.

http://yamato-movie.net/

There’s a timer on the site with the number of days to go, sort of like how the show many days to go they had to save Earth.  12/1/2010 is nearly a whole year so it better be damn good.