Welcome Hachi Fans from Japan

I noticed a funny thing last night reviewing site visitors. A huge uptick coming via Japan. Seems that in an article titled "Will Hachiko be Accepted by Americans" I hit the (not quite so) big time in Japan (linked above and image to the left). Perhaps more importantly it's probably the first (and last) time my name will appear in the same paragraph with that of Richard Gere.

From what I've been told it's an article at the Yahoo movie website exploring if the new Hachiko related movie will translate to American audiences. For those not familiar, it's the true story of a dog in Japan that waited for it's owner at the train station for many years after his death (wikipedia treatment here). Hollywood has remade the story with Richard Gere. Two bloggers are quoted in the article - both of us I believe shared some similar "fame" a few months ago when fans of skater Johnny Weir cited our two reviews of the documentary about him during SIFF.

My original writeup of the Richard Gere him is here. Not really especially newsworthy as far as things go - but the incident has amused me more than some recent films so it seemed worthy of posting. And did I mention the same paragraph with the star of An Officer and a Gentleman?