Upcoming animated movie Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール) in Pittsburgh, March 9.

The upcoming Japanese animated movie Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール) will play at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont on March 9, the date of its US premiere.

113 Industries hiring Chinese-language Consultant, Consumer Insights.

113 Industries, a market research consulting firm headquartered in Station Square, is hiring a Chinese-language "Consultant, Consumer Insights". An excerpt of the job posting, via Indeed.com:

113 Industries is seeking a detail-oriented and self-motivated Consultant to join the Consumer Insights team on projects related to Chinese consumers. The Consultant’s primary contributions will include configuring and analyzing data collection campaigns in Chinese language.

This is a temporary assignment but could lead to a full-time role as an Associate with highly variable day-to-day activities, a highly collaborative team, and great exposure to industry-leading organizations. In that Associate role, the candidate will create strategies, presentations and deliverables and interact with the clients directly. In that role, the candidate will also contribute to ongoing development of 113’s services to continually enhance the analysis of consumer data and insights.

Excellent knowledge of Chinese languages, both written and verbal, and Chinese culture is a must. Good knowledge of English is also required.

This opportunity is based in Pittsburgh, PA.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Identify conversation trends and patterns within social media data occurring in various spaces for projects in the Chinese languages
• Configure the software and tools 113 Industries uses for social listening and analysis in Chinese.
• Read through and analyze social data in Chinese for insights and conversation trends and identify the various themes and spaces of conversations
• Work closely with insights team to extract patterns in data and create subsequent strategic recommendations for clients
• Help team to maintain project deliverable timelines through providing status reports

Potential Additional Responsibilities

• Perform deep-dive market research and analysis to understand and conceptualize the existing consumer space
• Contribute to product ideation and brainstorming sessions
• Develop strategy briefs and project deliverables
• Deliver presentations and reports internally as well as to clients and serve as a communication contact with clients

Qualifications:

• Excellent knowledge of Chinese language, written and verbal, and good knowledge of English
• Excellent knowledge of Chinese culture, preferably someone who has lived and grown up in China
• Bachelor’s Degree
• 1-2 years work experience
• Background in marketing, business analysis, market research, and/or social listening ideal
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills

Cambodian-American rock group Dengue Fever in Pittsburgh this April.

Dengue Fever, a Cambodian-American "cross pollination of Khmer rock, garage rock, psychedelic rock and the British Invasion sound", recently announced a stop in Pittsburgh as part of their 2017 tour with Tinariwen. Tickets for the April 21 show at the Carnegie Library of Homestead are currently on sale and range from $18.75 to $45.



Dengue Fever last performed in Pittsburgh in 2012.

2016 Jackie Chan movie Railroad Tigers (铁道飞虎) in Pittsburgh, from January 13.

The upcoming movie Railroad Tigers (铁道飞虎), released in China on December 23, will play at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont from January 13. The distributor provides a summary:

In this action-comedy caper harkening back to Jackie Chan’s classic Hong Kong films, a railroad worker (Chan) and his ragtag group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions. Unarmed and outnumbered, they must fight back against an entire army using only their wits, in a series of a dazzling set pieces and action scenes rivaling anything seen on the big screen.

It was originally scheduled to open at AMC Loews Waterfront and the Hollywood Theater from January 6 as part of its initial nationwide release. Ticket and showtime information is available at the Hollywood Theater's website. The theater is located at 1449 Potomac Ave. in Dormont (map), and is accessible by Pittsburgh's subway/LRT at a block south of Potomac Station.

Chinese-language EndNote, Mendeley training sessions at Hillman Library in February.

The University of Pittsburgh Library System will offer training sessions in EndNote Basics and Mendeley Basics in Chinese in February. A description of EndNote Basics for Chinese Speakers, scheduled for February 6 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm:

Each training session will cover creating an account, searching resources and exporting citations, organizing citations, attaching files to citations, creating and formatting bibliographies, and inserting citations automatically into documents. Time will be available after the session for individual questions and practice.

Laptop owners: If you have a laptop that is set up for wireless PittNet, please bring it to use during the session with the software already loaded on it.

我們會講解如何使用EndNote的一些基本功能：如何建立帳號； 搜尋數據庫，導出參考文獻；參考文獻的組織與管理；給參考文獻附加全文；參考文獻表的建立與格式化； 撰写论文时自動插入參考文獻。

溫馨提示：如果您想在課上用您的電腦筆記本進行練習，請確認您的電腦筆記能連接匹大無綫網，而且已經下載了相關軟件。

And for Mendeley Basics for Chinese Speakers, scheduled for February 9 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm:

Each training session will cover creating an account, searching resources and exporting citations, organizing citations, attaching files to citations, creating and formatting bibliographies, and inserting citations automatically into documents. Time will be available after the session for individual questions and practice.

Laptop owners: If you have a laptop that is set up for wireless PittNet, please bring it to use during the session with the software already loaded on it.

我們會講解如何使用Mendeley的一些基本功能：如何建立帳號； 搜尋數據庫，導出參考文獻；參考文獻的組織與管理；給參考文獻附加全文；參考文獻表的建立與格式化； 撰写论文时自動插入參考文獻。

溫馨提示：如果您想在課上用您的電腦筆記本進行練習，請確認您的電腦筆記能連接匹大無綫網，而且已經下載了相關軟件

Registration is required and can be completed at the respective event pages.

One Piece Film: Gold (ワンピースフィルムゴールド) in Pittsburgh, from January 10.

The 2016 Japanese animated movie One Piece Film: Gold (ワンピースフィルムゴールド) will have a limited theatrical release in the US in January, and will play at the Southside Works Cinemas from January 10 through 17. The distributor summarizes:

The Straw Hat pirates are hitting the big screen once again in an all-new high-flying adventure! The popular series that has captivated fans all over the world unfolds a new saga in the highly anticipated movie, One Piece Film: Gold.

The glittering Gran Tesoro, a city of entertainment beyond the laws of the government, is a sanctuary for the world’s most infamous pirates, Marines, and filthy rich millionaires. Drawn by dreams of hitting the jackpot, Captain Luffy and his crew sail straight for the gold. But behind the gilded curtains lies a powerful king whose deep pockets and deeper ambitions spell disaster for the Straw Hats and the New World alike.

Tickets and showtimes are available on the theater's website.

Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) in Pittsburgh area for film's 20th anniversary, January 5 and 9.

The 1997 Japanese animated film Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) by Studio Ghibli will play at several theaters in the Pittsburgh area as part of a limited release for its 20th anniversary. A 1999 Roger Ebert four-star review summarizes:

Hayao Miyazaki is a great animator, and his "Princess Mononoke" is a great film. Do not allow conventional thoughts about animation to prevent you from seeing it. It tells an epic story set in medieval Japan, at the dawn of the Iron Age, when some men still lived in harmony with nature and others were trying to tame and defeat it. It is not a simplistic tale of good and evil, but the story of how humans, forest animals and nature gods all fight for their share of the new emerging order. It is one of the most visually inventive films I have ever seen.

The film will be shown with English subtitles on January 5 and dubbed in English on January 9, and will play at five local Cinemark theaters: Monaca, Monroeville, North Hills, Pittsburgh Mills and Robinson. Tickets are now available online via the Cinemark website (for the January 9 showing, search by theater to purchase tickets).

1995's Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) at Southside Works, February 7 and 8.

The 1995 Japanese animated movie Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) will play in Pittsburgh on February 7 and 8, 2017. A 2014 Telegraph review provides a summary:

Oshii’s film, which was adapted from a manga series by Masamune Shirow, saw everything coming. In its near-future world, countries are like corporations under siege, whose protective walls are slowly being washed away by an ocean of communal data. Hackers are treated like terrorists, while programmers’ movements are restricted as part of a global arms embargo.

Helping to keep the uneasy peace is Section 9, a team of government agents who include Motoko Kusanagi: a cyborg who can plug herself into the data-sea via four jack ports in the nape of her neck.

. . .

We follow Kusanagi on her hunt for The Puppet Master, a hacker who can access the ‘ghosts’, or souls, of ordinary citizens and carry out cyber-crimes by proxy. Now entirely synthetic, her original human body replaced and improved on piece by piece, Kusanagi is unsure whether her ghost still lingers in her man-made form[.]

Tickets are currently available online. Southside Works Cinema is located at 425 Cinema Drive in the Southside, one block from the Hot Metal Bridge (map).

Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall (长城) in Pittsburgh from February 17.

The 2016 Zhang Yimou film The Great Wall (长城) will open in Pittsburgh, and throughout the United States, on February 17. Starring Matt Damon, Jing Ting, and Andy Lau, among others, it was the highest-grossing movie in China the week it was released.

Korean designs at Pittsburgh Mills.

TJ Asian Buffet, one of the few remaining dining options at the dying Pittsburgh Mills northeast of the city, has a distinctly Korean look to its exterior. The entrances both inside and outside the mall are framed by a wooden doorway and a wall enclosing its outdoor seating area is built to resemble mud and tile construction seen in traditional Korean architecture. The tiles throughout the restaurant are from Dongyang Tile (동양기와) in Chongju.

It's interesting to note that TJ Buffet was the former home of Sinobi, a Korean-owned Japanese restaurant that had a location near Indiana University of Pennsylvania that also displayed a piece of traditional Korean design: a wooden totem (장송) ubiquitous in Korean folk villages and festivals.

It's also interesting to note that TJ Asian Buffet is opening a second location to replace Tokyo Buffet on McKnight Road in the North Hills.