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The 7th annual Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) was held on March 28-30 at Tokyo Big Site. TAF is the one of the largest animation fairs in the world with the participation of around 290 animation related businesses and more than 100,000 visitors this year.
Official poster for the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008
Ryuki Omura, a 16-year-old Japanese high school student, has become the first nationwide pen spinning champion in Japan. [Reuters]
Omura was among the 16 finalists chosen from 276 video entries to showcase his moves in Tokyo on Sunday (Mar 30) in a contest organized by the Pen Spinning Association Japan.
You can watch Omura’s video entries here.
Video with some slick pen spinning moves by various Japanese pen spinners
(not related to the competition)
A small restaurant in Taipei is selling some beef noodles at NT$10,000 (~USD330) per bowl.
The restaurant is named “688 Beef Bowl”, and is located at Taipei’s busy Zhongxiao Road. The restaurant has been operating for 18 years and most of their beef noodles are priced around NT$150-300… the expensive noodles are only sold on limited basis and need to be pre-ordered.
I am not sure why the beef noodle cost so much; it seems like it’s not using special ingredients… the high cost was probably attributed by the quality of the beef. The restaurant owner has spent 5 years to search for the high quality beef to make this beef noodle… and a nice piece of beef could be really costly, obviously.
Japanese variety show “TV Champion 2″ held an origami competition last week with Chuya Miyamoto challenging Satoshi Kamiya. Below are three video clips which showed their amazing origami skills… [Hat tip to Japanprobe]
The origami artists’ creation with a restaurant receipt… Miyamoto created a restaurant employee with the restaurant logo featuring at the centre of the apron; Kamiya created a cow with its calf
The 2nd Asian Film Awards (AFA) were presented on March 17 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, in conjunction with the 32nd Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Korean movie “Secret Sunshine” (밀양; Milyang) is the biggest winner with 3 major awards (complete list). Below are some pics from the event…
Hong Kong actor Tony Leung (best actor) and Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon (best actress)
The winners of the 2nd Asian Film Awards, presented on March 17 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (some pictures on next post)…
Best picture
Secret Sunshine (South Korea)
Best director
Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine; South Korea)
Best actor
Tony Leung (Lust, Caution; Taiwan / China/ USA)
Best actress
Jeon Do-yeon (Secret Sunshine; South Korea)
One of my favourite Korean songs… “Start” (시작; Sijak), from singer Park Ki-young…
Park Ki-young - Start MV