My Favorite Movies

Based on King Lear, an artistic masterpiece. Kurosawa's best.

An all inclusive story of the Japanese Americans who fought in World War II while their families were illegally interned in American Relocation camps.
This movie shows that Japanese Americans are Americans.....who fought and died to prove their loyalty to a country that treated them like second class citizens at that time

A grand overview of modern amateur astronomy, a personal journey of Timothy Ferris, a superb man of letters. This show explains why people do amateur astronomy, in all of its flavors.

Read Clarke's book First, then go see the movie. A real science fiction classic

The funniest science fiction movie ever made. Period.

"How are the Dodgers doing?"

Best Hollywood adaptation of a true story. Only a few gotchas for space history buffs.

Great script, solid acting by newcomers. ANother Eastwood Gem!

Based on Martin Caidin's classic. Accurate depiction of anoxia and death by exposure to vacuum. Accurate 1960s space technology depicted. Great acting by Gregory Peck, David Jannsen, Richard Crenna, Gene hackman, James Fanciscus.

A good middle age buddy film. Richly developed characters, great storyline and no special effects. Exactly the opposite of what most garbage filmmakers put out these days.

Hollywood, get the message! Special effects and CGI do not make a movie! Write better scripts dammit!

Kubrick at his best. A very dark comedy that every USAF veteran should see. George C. Scott is a gem in this one.

This is the Kurosawa movie that inspired George Lucas to make "Star Wars", which is NOT science fiction. Lucas took the plot elements of this move to make his space opera that everybody knows.

Silliest movie exploiting Asian American actors. No way they would make it today as it would piss off MANAA and other Asian American media watchdog groups.

A movie that Japanese Americans that lived through the 1980s can relate to. Kinda slow at times, but it has a lot of bittersweet comedy in it. A modern tale of cultural clash between a Japanese girl and a Japanese American guy, who is too frequently identified as Japanese by white Americans. He does not speak Japanese and does not like Japanese food.