Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

Channel K, otherwise a popular tv station in military controlled Myanmar, has its own festival teleplay show, ‘A Drama I don't want to forget’, which has gotten a bizarre reimagining of the Broadway Tarzan musical in its first season.  Two of the actors known to regular Burmese theatre goers are Myo Shwe Mann and Ko Po Chit (Tar Phoe Chit), who starred in such a frankly crazy early episode of this teleplay show.  It is a frankly entertaining experience.

The Yuasa Lineage Yuasa School  Yuichiro Sueyoshi  Masaaki Yuasa  Michio Mihara  Nobutaka Ito  Ryōtaro Makihara Naoyuki Asano  *Tellingly, the Yuasa effects and character acting school is a downplayed hybrid of Kanada and expressionist styles as with that of the Kozuma school, yet tends to lean into less boredom inducing scenarios. However, it’s not quite closely related to the Mao Lamdo school lineage and is still more related to the Kozuma school, even though it feels similar to the former. The Tomonaga Lineage   Tomonaga School Kazuhide Tomonaga  Atsuko Tanaka *Despite currently showing off much different looks, Tomonaga and Tokura still have more in common than what they usually appear to be due to Masahito Yamashita’s obvious early fission-fusion influence on both. The ‘Tokura Tentacle’, the rough and slowly twisting acting style popularised by him but created by his indirect seniors Miyazawa and Tomonaga, also has become such a strong charac...

Vlaamse Filmpjes, the modernisation of postwar period Vlaamse Filmkens, remains a much longer runner than its predecessor’s Francophone spinoff Presto Films. It’s pretty telling when Presto Films’ sole major claim to fame is perhaps Jean Ray’s Hirro the Jungle Boy, which is basically a Tarzanesque shipwreck story cashing in on the Jungle Book expy trend.  The first postwar period is known for tropical stories which not just have felt too colonialist even for the 1960s, but are often offensive to almost everyone involved except for grandparents who vote for hyper corrupt politicians regardless of any political wing. Nonetheless, there is a good reason why even it evolved positively from featuring such boring, stodgy colonialist stories into darker and edgier, also more mindful, weekly Shōnen Magazine style contemporary stories. But that was before the third period has now become a mild Shōnen Jump style Mecca for Flemish school stories and fantasies from the early 2000s onward....