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Jimmy (Hiroshi Watanabe, “Letters From Iwo Jima”) loves dinosaurs and sleeps on the top bunk. Unfortunately, Jimmy is 40 and shares that bunk with Bob (Justin Kwong), his 10-year-old nephew. Freshly divorced, Jimmy lives with his sister Aiko (Japanese Academy Award winner Nae) and her family while boldly searching for a new wife. His brother in-law, Tak (Mio Takada, "Late Night with Conan O'Brien") thinks he’s a disaster. And although Jimmy may lack social grace, he is convinced the best years of his life are just beginning. His plan seems like it’s all falling into place when Tak’s beautiful niece Ramona (Lynn Chen, “Saving Face”) moves in. But once Jimmy sets his sights on stealing her from his best friend Tim (James Kyson Lee, “Heroes”), he sees his intentions go hilariously awry.
In his new comedy, White on Rice, Big Dreams Little Tokyo director Dave Boyle affirms that he is the master at the joke that you see coming, and laugh at anyway. With his new inductee into the pantheon of comedy's acute arrested development cases, he presents a catalyst for one Final Destination style calamity of social discomfort after another. It's a clockwork march towards disaster, but that doesn't prevent the catalog of relationship mishaps from being charming, genuinely funny and honestly heart warming.
While I found the premise of the well worth tracking down on DVD Big Dreams Little Tokyo to be more distinctive, White on Rice features an outstanding cast with outstanding chemistry. If you can make it to one of its screenings, it's a film that is certainly good for a laugh.
White on Rice is scheduled to open in Los Angeles and Orange County next week. Tickets are on sale for the September 11th opening, with a sneak peak. September 9th 7:30pm at the Laemmle's Pasadena Playhouse 7 sneak peak
In honor of the premiere, AICN has three cast signed posters to give away to readers.
To enter the drawing, send with your name, address and subject "White on Rice" animecontest@gmail.com by midnight Eastern 9/9/09.
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Looks a little Jared-Hesh-esque, only with less vintage clothing.
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...Japanese Wedding.
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Right off the bat you say "Unfortunately, Jimmy is 40 and shares that bunk with Bob (Justin Kwong), his 10-year-old nephew." Makes Jimmy sound like a pedophile. If he isn't, you might want to change the wording.
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"white on rice" is slang, in some quarters, for a Caucasian having sex with an Asian.
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Should be something different for a change, I like my independent films yellow and mellow...
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Sep 02, 2009 3:27:08 PM CDT
"its hard to be an adult, you have a lot to worry about, like da
by ironic_name
that was funny, cool!
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for the truly atrocious writers, please
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How come you don't fill your sentences with spelling mistakes, mangled analogies, references to bodily functions and multiple unfinished ideas. What are you, a fag or something? Take some lessons from Harry. Overuse exclamations points whilst underusing other punctuation. make your sentences unending babbled that take a few re-readings to fully understand how little is actually being said. Use some numbers instead of letters and make it more about you, and what you thought, who you know, who you hang out with, who just called you on your iPhone or messaged you on your Blackberry. You're welcome.
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Offbeat but family friendly. I got a kind of Little Miss Sunshine vibe from it.
Casting James Kyson Lee seems to have been a good movie ( well you can't really tell from the small bit we see here ). I think he's done well in all of his roles. Granted I never even knew who he was before Heroes, and then you basically saw him on every show. -
looks much better in HD and in non flash silliness.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/whiteonrice/
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Dat Phan. End of discussion
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The Deer Hunter was hysterical. Lots of funny Asians in that movie.
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