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A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Flower Drum Song’

Edward Hong

Despite this new revival of Flower Drum Song having a second revision from David Henry Hwang, no amount of rewrites can shake the core that this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, now playing at East West Players, is still very much outdated as an orientalist and voyeuristic crowd pleaser for old white people with subpar musical numbers.

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How Toshiro Mifune and Hideo Nomo Inspired Netflix’s ‘Ultraman: Rising’

Laura Sirikul

In Netflix’s upcoming animated film Ultraman: Rising, Ken Sato (Christopher Sean) is a Japanese-born American baseball superstar who recently left his prestigious Los Angeles baseball team to return to Japan to play for their league. In reality, Ken returns to take the mantle of the superhero Ultraman, given to him by his estranged elderly father, who is forced to retire.

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