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Re: Mahjong at the movies?
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:47 pm
by Barticle
A mahjong parlour in the point-and-click video-game,
Encodya. (2021) It's just scenery - you cannot enter.
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The setting is a cyberpunk "Neo Berlin" (cf. Akira's "Neo Tokyo") so yes, that is the Brandenburg Gate (and a flying car) in the background.
Re: Mahjong at the movies?
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:51 pm
by Barticle
A couple of mahjong tables in the Ruby Dragon (red dragon?) restaurant in
The Last of Us Part II video-game. (2020)
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Looks like someone's been playing the mahjong equivalent of 52-card pickup!
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Re: Mahjong at the movies?
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 12:05 am
by Barticle
In the new video-game
Stray (2022) you play as a cat in a future city of humanoid robots.
At one point you can find a couple of them playing mahjong.
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It doesn't end well when you try to join in - but at least you get a trophy.
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Re: Mahjong at the movies?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 8:26 pm
by Barticle
Lt. Columbo finds a mahjong set - and asks Patrick McGoohan's character what it is. Season 5, episode 3 (1975).
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Posted by u/bdzz on Reddit. See thread for short clip.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mahjong/comments/11a2mxv/the_only_proper_way_to_pronounce_mahjong/
Re: Mahjong at the movies?
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 11:09 pm
by Barticle
A yakuza takes a break from a game to count the protection money in
Tokyo Vice. (2022)
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This recent TV drama series was inspired by the book of the same name by Jake Adelstein, his memoirs of working as a reporter on the crime beat - the first westerner to pass the stringent entrance exam to work at a major newspaper. I learnt about the book through the
Yakuza video-game community and found it by chance at a small book-sale in London some years ago. I will probably re-read it soon.
A lot is familiar from the
Yakuza games. The TV show is set in Tokyo - including Kabukicho - and the characters include several gangsters and hostesses. There's even a trip to a batting centre and a couple of rooftop showdowns.
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They play Hanafuda too.
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Re: Mahjong at the movies?
Posted: Sun May 28, 2023 6:25 pm
by Barticle
Back on
Bob's Burgers. This is from season 11. (2020)
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Re: Mahjong at the movies?
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:09 pm
by Barticle
If you want the latest gossip, you go to the ladies' mahjong club - in new Netflix series
The Brothers Sun (2024).
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The club appears several times and Michelle Yeoh's character mentions mahjong another couple of times too.