Shōgun – Tomorrow is Tomorrow

  • Title: Shōgun – Tomorrow is Tomorrow
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Shōgun - Tomorrow is Tomorrow

“Tomorrow is Tomorrow” accomplishes two major tasks. The first is Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), and Mariko (Anna Sawai) and out of the clutches of those who want both Toranaga and Blackthorne dead. The second is it provides multiple opportunities for both Toranaga and Blackthorne to get a measure of each other. Blackthorne discovers the cunning of his rescuer/captor in getting out of Osaka while leaving his enemies at an empass unable to move forward with their plans without his presence. Toranaga gets a measure of the pilot who puts his own life on the line rather than be left behind. As so a friendship begins between the pair with Mariko cemented as the bridge between them.

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The Joy Luck Club

  • Title: The Joy Luck Club
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“I tell you the story because I was raised the Chinese way. I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, and to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way. Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl, and I was born to my mother and I was born a girl, all of us like stairs, one step after another, going up, going down, but always going the same way.”

Joy Luck Club

There are a handful of films that are guaranteed to always bring tears to my eyes. Based on the novel of the same name, 1993’s The Joy Luck Club centers around the lives of twenty-something Chinese-American women and the lives of their mothers, all of whom grew up in China, which are explored in flashbacks. After immigrating to America, these four women found each other and created the group playing mahjong and sharing stories for which the novel, and film, are named.

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Adventures of Superman – The Case of the Talkative Dummy

  • Title: Adventures of Superman – The Case of the Talkative Dummy
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Adventures of Superman - The Case of the Talkative Dummy

Superman Sunday takes us back to the 1950s and a strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. What do a ventriloquist dummy and the theft of armored cars have in common? That’s what Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) investigate. After taking Jim Olson (Jack Larson) out for a treat on his birthday all three employees of The Daily Planet make a connection between a ventriloquist’s dummy talking on its own with the time and location of an armored car robbery. 

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