Enrico's blog

I have quite a few from Kamakura … they will need their own gallery.

I hear good things about Shinobi … can’t say I like the main poster for it or the rather cheesy pop song that seems to be attached with it … but the photography in the trailer looks quite beautiful. There’s a review of the film at twitch.com.

Three photos for you … the day in Kamakura with Ronnie was a lot of fun … Large sizes of these 3: here, here and here.

Last night I saw composer and jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara at Yoshi‘s in Oakland. And it blew my mind. Her Jazz Piano Trio’s music is fantastic, full of energy and contagious glee. They played mostly pieces from her newly released album Spiral, which I heartly recommend if you like Jazz or piano music in general. [...]

Random cellphone shot from Tokyo #1

More here at my flickr page. More to come.

Question: “You have received a number of prizes, including the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002 and an Oscar for best animated feature film in 2003 for Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away), which first came out in 2001. Hauru no Ugoku Shiro also was awarded the Osella prize for [...]

A couple of more sketches from Tokyo’s SketchCrawl day …

You can download Gedo Senki’s Trailer here. I am not so sure about this one: on one side it looks old school Ghibli which is great (reminds me of Nausicaa and the comic The Journey of Shuna) on the other I am really skeptic of Miyazaki San’s son Goro directing for the first time, without [...]