TOKYO: Usually, when I'm in Tokyo,
only three names matter a lot to me. Joel Robuchon, Sadaharu Aoki and Pierre
Hermé.
This time,
I added one more to the top of my list: Takeshi Kaneshiro.
He doesn't
cook or whip up any sweets, but, gosh, he's gorgeous. The actor of Japanese and
Taiwanese parentage stars in the Japanese movie, "K-20: The Fiend with 20
Faces", which is in cinemas now.
Also
starring Takako Matsu and Toru Nakamura, the film is a screen version of the
comic book, set in a fictional Japan
where a 19th-century class system continues to thrive. "K-20" (short
for "Fiend with 20 Faces" - in Japanese, of course) is a mysterious
masked thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Kaneshiro plays
lead character Heikichi Endo, a circus acrobat who is mistakenly believed to be
K-20. In
the course of the action, the Fiend's identity is finally unmasked....read the_rest of the article here...
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