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Dear Friends,

We're proud to announce that WHITE ON RICE is now available to watch for free on HULU.  Anyone can watch the film (albeit with commercials), and those with Hulu Plus accounts can view it without advertising interruptions!

Click here to start watching on Hulu!  And be sure to leave a review while you're there!


We're also excited to announce a new Channel on Comcast On Demand:  Cinema Asian America.  "White on Rice" is part of the inaugural lineup!

For the month of December, "White on Rice" is available to all Comcast subscribers!  To view the film:

• Through their digital cable menu, viewers should click on the “On Demand” button, and then look under the “Movies” folder. In this will be a “Movie Collections” folder and inside of this viewers will find “Cinema Asian America” and will be able to access "White on Rice" and other great films!


Our friends at Comcast and Cinema Asian America also have two previews on YouTube:

Cinema Asian American promotion – 40 second spot

Cinema Asian American promotion – 7 minute spot

Thanks again for all your support!  Since our premiere in March 2009, the movie has had a great journey to theaters and now to homes everywhere!  Please continue to help other people discover "White on Rice" this Holiday season.

The White on Rice Team

Dear Friends and Fans of "White on Rice," We're proud to announce that "WHITE ON RICE" is now available to watch INSTANTLY online at Netflix! If you have a Netflix account, you can start watching the movie anytime you want on your computer, or if you have a streaming device for your TV, you can watch it there too! 

Here's the link:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/White-on-Rice/70118358?strackid=4ed3a3d2a3fe985e_0_srl&strkid=171706940_0_0&trkid=438381#height1675

A film reading

I went to a reading of a very nice screenplay
I hope it will lead to something.






Please click to enlarge image.

New screenplay

Mio has been working on his new feature length screenplay.

He's almost done and it looks good!


Well, you guessed it.
It's been so slow for me lately, and that's why I've had plenty of time to write..    Mio

"People I've slept with" theatrical release dates

Playing dates of the film "People I've slept with"


New York: August 13, 2010
Clerview Chelsea
260 23 rd Street
1888 CLVW-TIX
Clerviewcinemas.com


Los Angeles August 27, 2010
Laemmle’s Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Blvd
310478-3836
laemmle.com


San Francisco: September 03, 2010
Viz Cinema
1746 Post St.
415525-8600
newpeopleworld.com


San Jose
Camera 12 Cinemas
201s. Second St.
408998-3300
cameracinemas.com

THE PEOPLE I'VE SLEPT WITH

 “The People I’ve Slept With” will theatrically released this September.
The film is directed by Quentin Lee, written by Koji Steven Sakai, starring Karin Anna Cheung (Better Luck Tomorrow), Wilson Cruz (My So Called Life) , Archie Kao (CSI) and Lynn Chen (Saving Face).

VIZ Cinema, 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA
Showtimes from Saturday, 9/4 – Thursday, 9/9

WHITE ON RICE picked up by WARNER BROS!

Dear Friends,

We have a very exciting announcement to make.

Thanks to our friends at Gravitas Ventures, "White on Rice" has been picked up by Warner Bros. for Cable VOD and Online distribution!  The film will debut on Pay Per View on June 1st of this year---just over 1 month away.

This will be a major national launch with the film being available in over 50 million US homes.  If you have Cable, with access to "Movies On Demand" or "Pay Per View," chances are you'll be able to watch White on Rice in the comfort of your living room.  It will be available in standard format as well as in HD!
Don't have cable?  Not a problem!  The movie will be available on iTunes and Amazon VOD for download starting on June 1st as well.
Over 100 cable, satellite, telco operators and online will be showing the film including these major ones:
 
Comcast
Time Warner Cable
Cox
Charter
Verizon
Cablevision
DIRECTV VOD
DISH NETWORK IPVOD
RCN
Insight
Mediacom
Bresnan
Suddenlink
Amazon VOD
iTunes

For those of you who haven't yet had a chance to see White on Rice, now it will be available everywhere!  New to the brave new world of VOD?  Here's a brief Q and A that will hopefully clear things up.  Feel free to write back with any questions you might have:

Uh...What is VOD?  It stands for "Video On Demand," and is basically a fancy word for "Pay Per View."  Most Cable providers allow you to watch movies for a small fee (usually between $3.99-$7.99 depending on your service).  For instructions on how to find the VOD function on your cable box, contact your local cable provider.

Mio in a New Feature Film

We have just completed a new feature film "ONE WISH", in which Mio Takada played a supporting role.
ONE WISH will be coming to theaters soon.

Coca Cola City of Angeles French Film Festival

American premiere of "Le Concert" on Friday, April 23, 8:30PM at Renoir Theater, Director's Guild in Los Angeles!

More review, "White on Rice"

By Atsunobu Ushizu on "I'll see you as Steven Seagal"(JAPAN)


-----And Mio Takada, who plays the role of father, was once a musician in New York, and maybe because of that, he has a kind of presence, which no acting could produce.
In other words, wonderful lassitude ooze out of him that represents years of his struggle accumulated inside of him.

Kevin's "The Rat Thing"

Kevin Keresey's "The Rat Thing" is going to London Independent Film Festival.
Knock them dead, Kevin!

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2010

April29-May 8, Don't miss "Clean-Up" Starring Mio Takada, written by Joseph Kamiya and Mio Takada, and directed by Joseph Kamiya.

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
PROGRAM57
"Clean-Up" and other short films
Wednesday, May 5, 8:00 P.M.
Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 S. San Pedro Street (between 2nd and 3rd Streets) in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

Japan Film Festival Los Angeles 2010

If you are planning to come to this weekend's Japan Film Festival Los Angeles 2010 Gala, Please say hello!

'Clean-Up" Official Screening /Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival‏

So here's your chance to check out our new short film "Clean-Up", starring Mio Takada.
"Clean-Up" was written by Joseph Kamiya snd Mio Takada

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
PROGRAM57
Wednesday, May 5, 8:00 P.M.
Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 S. San Pedro Street (between 2nd and 3rd Streets) in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

"Clean-Up" and the eight other shorts that were produced by Visual Communications' Armed With A Camera Fellowship -- along with two documentaries from UCLA's Center for Ethnocommuncations -- will be screening that night. A free afterparty at Chop Suey will follow at 9:30, with free Stella Artois for the first hour -- I don't know what a Stella Artois is, but you all deserve one for your hard work!

You can obtain tickets at Visual Communications' website: http://www.vconline.org (festival programs and ticketing will be online within a few weeks).

Slanted

Soon I'll be joining Andrea Lwin on her Web TV comedy "Slanted".
I haven't seen any script and I don't know what I'll be doing, but it looks like I'm definitely aboard now.

http://www.youtube.com/TheSlantedShow

Kraft Lunchables Commercial

That reminds me about my current TV commercial, which is Kraft Lunchables "Super Mom".
Keep on going, Mom!

Big Dreams Little Tokyo

By the way, I also did another film by Dave Boyle, "Big Dreams Little Tokyo", and now is a good time for you guys to purchase a DVD or two or three.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Little-Tokyo-James-Kyson/dp/B00192QM7I

White on Rice Review, Izumi Hasagawa, FLIX

“---and Mio Takada’s acting left me in stitches.”

Izumi Hasegawa, FLIX MAGAZINE, Japan, December 2009

White on Rice Review

Dave Boyle’s White on Rice by Chuck Wilson Tuesday, March9, 2010
Village Voice, New York
A hapless fool only a family member could love, the Tokyo-born Hajime (Hiroshi Watanabe), a/k/a/ Jimmy, has a gift for offending women, as well as tendency to lock himself out of the car and set kitchen on fire. Newly divorced, Jimmy has come to live with his sister, Aiko (Nae), her husband, Tak (Mio Takada, Exellent), and their gifted but emotionally neglected young son, Bob(Justin Kwong).
Having Jimmy in the house literally drives Tak crazy, and, at its best, this uneven film by writer-director Dave Boyle suggests that going a bit nuts is a good thing for the rigid paterfamilias. Boyle and Watanabe may intend for Jimmy to be an innocent who inadvertently changes lives, a la Forrest Gump, but he’s often too creepy to care about, as when he begins to stalk his beautiful cousin or leaves young Bob home alone on Halloween. As a writer, Boyle is on firmer ground when he concentrates on Tak and Bob, two nearly mute males acting out in all manners of amusing ways.
When father and son finally make each other smile, White on Rice glows with warmth.

Clean-up

Joseph Kamiya and I are almost done with "Clean-up", a short horror film.
Hopefully it will go to film festivals before too many moons go by.

WOR news

Movie “White on Rice” opened today in New York.
Also, there will be a screening in Japan at Osaka Film Festival tomorrow, and Tokyo screening will follow on March 20th.
More good news is coming.

Reveiw by Seth Shire

----Compared to typical Hollywood fare “White on Rice” is downright subversive featuring two of the most comically outrageous hari kari scenes (one of them accidental) ever put on film. What “White on Rice” lacks in professional polish it compensates for with a game cast that is able to put over this small, nutty story.

Seth Shire, Unpaid Film Critic

"White on Rice"

Joint Theatrical Release of the two popular American independent films "White on Rice" & "Children of Invention" in New York City

White on Rice and Children of Invention are planning a joint theatrical release for their films in New York City at the newly renovated BIG Cinemas Manhattan, opening on March 12th.
In the photo; Nae Yuuki, Bill Otto, Dave Boyle