Sad News: Ai Iijima Found Dead in Possible Suicide - 飯島愛さんが死亡、自殺か

I just heard from a Japanese friend that well known Japanese 'Tarento' (talent)  personality Iijima Ai ( 飯島愛) was found dead in her apartment in Tokyo of an apparent suicide.

Japanese news article:

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Ip Man (葉問) Hong Kong Premiere Photos

As I mentioned in my Ip Man Sneak Preview Review,  I got to attend the Hong Kong Premiere of Donnie Yen's new film 'Ip Man' ( 葉問) on Tuesday night (very last minute, I didn't know about it until about two hours before).  火曜日晩イプ・マンの映画のプレミールイベントを参加した。ちょっと晩く着きましたから、あまり写真撮りません！ごめん！

Actually I arrived late so I missed most of the sign board appearances by the ca...Read more

Orius Comic Launch + Pat Lee Artwork Exhibition

Here's some pics I took last night at the Launch Event for Race and Rosanne's comic project with Pat Lee,  titled Orius.  It was held at the new Garage Works store in Sai Wan, and coincided with the opening of a gallery exhibition of some of Pat's comic work from the past decade or so.

In this case since alivenotdead.com was helping to run the event, I didn't get a chance to take as many photos as I would have liked.  But here's a few I did snap:

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East Asia Capital Concert - part 2

East Asia Capital Concert pics are here,  these are some from the exclusive after party (actually it was more of a post-concert press conference + dinner... but anyway, you get the point!)

First a few of the biggies went on stage for the press:

then everyone else joined them for ...Read more

East Asia Capital Concert - part 1

On Saturday and again on Monday Media  Asia Group( 寰亞綜藝娛樂集團有限公司 )  held a BIG BIG concert at the Asia World Expo Center.  It was a showcase type show featuring many top names in the HK music scene:Including Andy Lau,  Sammi Cheung, Miriam Yeung, Richie Ren and amongst many others,   Terence Yin and Read more

Donnie Yen's Ip Man (葉問) Early Review

Yet another unanticipated opportunities!  Terence got tickets to the HK Premiere of Donnie Yen's new film 'Ip Man' ( 葉問),  the bio-pic about Wing Chun master (commonly known as  Yip Man). The trailer looked pretty cool and I liked Donnie's last few films (' Painted Skin' and ' Flashpoint') quite a lot, so I was looking forw...Read more

Hong Kong Star X Launch Gala - pt 1

I was fortunate enough to get the chance to go to a launch event for a new media group on Thursday night. The company is called   Hong Kong Star X Media, from what I understand they've been in movie production for a number of years (producing a number of Herman Yau's films, including ...Read more

'True Women on Sale' (我不賣身,我賣子宮) Premiere Screening

After the Golden Scene 10th anniversary, we shuttled over to apm's broadway cinema to check out a premiere screening and show some support for alivenotdead.com artist Race Wong. The film is 'True Women For Sale' ( 我不賣身,我賣子宮 ),  directed by Herman Yau and featuring Prudence Liew ( 劉美君 ), Anthony Wong and Race Wong as the primary characters.   I'll do a revi...Read more

Golden Scene's 10 Anniversary

Thursday was a busy night for us! First several of us went over to the Grand Cinema at Elements mall for Golden Scene's 10th Anniversary.  They are doing a series of screenings of some of their most successful titles to celebrate the milestone.

For those of you who don't know,  'The Heavenly Kings' -- featuring 'Alive the Boyband'... the reason  alivenotdead.com even exists,  was distributed by Golden ...Read more

I saw the Twins Girl! 蔡卓妍

on Monday night I went to check out another fancy nokia launch event,  this time held at the Watermark above the Star Ferry Pier.  Nokia is launching a new model, the Nokia 5800 'XpressMusic' -- which is apparently NOT Nokia's first touch screen 'smartphone', but it is one of the few they've tried.  

As you may have heard, Nokia h...Read more