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	Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Continuity: During the pursuit on the roofs after two Yamakasi steal the painting in the lady's apartment, their masks are repeatedly on and off between shots.
		from UK The YAMAKASI are a bunch of kids who practise what is variously known as Parkour and Free Running, a sort of sport/art/philosophy involving the development of skills for the traversal of urban environments in interesting ways (http://www.parkour.com/).
		YAMAKASI the film is a Luc Besson production that basically provides a vehicle for 7 of these kids to show their stuff, in the pretence of helping a young kid who needs a heart transplant.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0267129 (547 words)

	Yamakasi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Often mistaken for Japanese, the word is actually taken from the Lingala language, which is spoken in the two Congos.
		The name also refers to the sport practiced in real life by these characters (who actually reside in the suburbs) and for whom the movie was intended as a vehicle for demonstrating their skills: resembling parkour, or "urban running", it involves athletic displays such as backflips and handstands while surmounting urban obstacles.
		the philosophy of Yamakasi is that of complete freedom of movement from point A to point B as opposed to parkour which focuses on effiency of movement between point A to point B. The philosophy of the Yamakasi is known as l'art du deplacement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamakasi (253 words)

	Ghost of a flea: Yamakasi
		They are an urban ninja group known as the "Yamakasi," a clan of seven modern day samurais who scale and climb buildings in order to get closer to the skies and be free.
		Their discipline and ritual practices of the art of motion are hindered when a young boy, in an attempt to mimic his "Yamakasi" heroes, falls from a tree and gets badly injured from a poor heart.
		Feeling responsible for the accident, the Yamakasi begins a Robin Hood like adventure where they start to steal from the rich in order to raise the large sum of money for the boy to receive his operation.
	www.ghostofaflea.com /archives/003049.html (326 words)

	Define blue.
		There are currently seven Yamakasi (though there are rumours they're in the process of training more up) and they range in age from 19 to 28.
		Yamakasi The Movie portrays the gang as a bunch of modern day Robin Hoods - relieving the rich of their worldly burdens, giving it to the poor, and leaping off a lot of buildings in between.
		Except for a single sequence when the seven scale the exterior of a giant skyscraper with the aid of digitally-erased cables, special effects are non-existent and the crew spent half their time with their fists in their mouths.
	sim.sstwo.net /yamakasi.html (664 words)

	[KFCC] Yamakasi Review
		Their discipline and ritual practices of the art of motion are hindered when a young boy, in an attempt to mimic his "Yamakasi" heroes, falls from a tree and gets badly injured from a poor heart.
		Feeling responsible for the accident, the Yamakasi begins a Robin Hood like adventure where they start to steal from the rich in order to raise the large sum of money for the boy to receive his operation.
		For first time actors, the "Yamakasi" kids really had the spark that drove the film in the right direction and even provided the flashes of comedy to really make their characters likeable and charismatic.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/action/yamakasi/yamakasi.html (870 words)

	Reviews [Point2e]: Yamakasi - Les SamouraÃ¯ Des Temps Modernes [Fr]
		Seven normal young men, who called themselves the Yamakasi, always got on the police's nerves by climbing up the walls of high-rise buildings early in the morning, disturbing the sleep of the neighborhood.
		With the police hot on their heels, the Yamakasi face the dilemma of abandoning their mission to save little Djamel or carrying on the samurai spirit to fight till the end.
		In real life, the seven of them have known each other for 10 years and the background of the Yamakasi is rather similar to their own.
	www.point2e.com /rev/2004/06/yamakasi-les-samoura-des-temps.htm (1206 words)

	Mobile Game Developer Magazine - Breakpoint moves with Yamakasi Masters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The unique urban movement of Yamakasi is a combination of extreme sport, martial arts and a way of life and is compared sometimes with Samurais.
		Yamakasi is the third license acquired in 2007 by Breakpoint which in line with its growth strategy.
		Yamakasi group was founded 10 years ago in France and is made of a group of world famous athletes of l`art du déplacement (French: Motion Art).
	www.mobilegd.com /announcements/breakpoint-moves-with-yamakasi-masters.html (473 words)

	French films skates onto Ha Noi screens
		Yamakasi, directed by Ariel Zeitoun, follows seven skateboarders who scour Paris looking for airborne freedom.
		Their fast-paced explorations freeze when a young boy tries to mimic his Yamakasi heroes and falls from a tree.
		Yamakasi made its Viet Nam debut in HCM City last month as the country’s first widely distributed French film, said director of HCM City’s VIMIFA Film Distribution Company Ngo Quang Hien.
	vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn /2004-04/15/Stories/24.htm (253 words)

	www.TheGline.com: DVD of the Week: (02-04-06): Yamakasi
		One of the boys who idolizes the Yamakasi tries to imitate them, falls out of a tree, and in the “24 hours before we have to do a heart transplant” the Yamakasi hatch a plan: Rob the men who run the organ-transplant intermediary company, and use their own money to pay for the kid’s transplant.
		They have to guarantee a certain degree of return on their investments, and the best way for them to do that is to give people exactly what they’ve seen before in a slightly different package.
		Yamakasi seems to have fallen victim to that kind of thinking: if it’s too different, too daring, no one will see it, so we have to cram in all the pseudo-obligatory stupid crap that has been poisoning movies for decades now.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2006/02-04-2006.htm (1008 words)

	iFMagazine.com News - LUC BESSON'S LATEST ENDS LEGAL BATTLE
		THE SKINNY: A French director and screenwriter fired during the filming of the Luc Besson-produced YAMAKASI: THE SAMURAIS OF MODERN TIMES have lost their legal fight to block the film's release unless it was re-edited.
		YAMAKASI is based on a real-life band of youths living in a project in the Parisian suburbs who develop a kind of sport that involves daring leaps from the roofs and bridges of their urban environment.
		Ariel Zeitoun was brought in as director to finish the project, which is currently due for an April 4 release in France.
	www.ifmagazine.com /new.asp?article=1713 (217 words)

	: Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Not content with taming their urban environment, the original seven — whose name “Yamakasi” comes from the Zairean dialect Lingala meaning “strong spirit, strong body, strong man” — are now inventing themselves a future on the silver screen.
		Today I have a meeting with one of the original Yamakasis and it’s Vietnamese-born Chau Belle Dinh or “Baseball,” as he is also known, who has drawn the short straw.
		For a start none of them smoke, drink or take drugs and far from letting incipient fame go to their heads, the boys from the burbs, are putting as much as they can back into their community.
	parisvoice.com /04/summer04/html/showtime/feature.cfm (885 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| The art of Le Parkour
		The two boys led a gang known as the Yamakasi, who became famous last year when they starred in a film of the same name by director Luc Besson, of Fifth Element fame.
		The blurb described the Yamakasi as "modern-day Samurai," but by this point Belle had left the group, fearing that the commercialisation was threatening the inner spirit of the sport.
		There are a series of basic moves, from the cat-jump - in which the exponent places two hands on an obstacle and then leaps between them - to the tic-tac, which is a kind-off push-off taken in mid-movement from a wall or other surface.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1939867.stm (541 words)

	stand alone complex
		for those who might be familiar with the Luc Besson film, Yamakasi is actually the art or sport, the film takes its name from the art itself.
		Yamakasi has been able to help people discover this for themselves in quite a unique way.
		(Generation Yamakasi), one hour long, and with the original French narration fully subtitled in english.
	spaces.msn.com /vroenis (1371 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		yamakasi tu berasal dari perkataan zaire - strong spirit, strong body, strong man. memang ler kalau dah 200 kali cuba utk perfectedkan jump dia org dr satu bangunan ke satu bangunan yg lain tanpa guna tali.
		dia org ni tak sedar yg dia org tu dah jadi idola budak2 kecik kat kwasan tempat tinggal dia org sampailah satu hari sorang budak ni jatuh dr pokok sbb nak imitate the yamakasi.
		group yamakasi ni pun rasa bersalah, dia org pun ambik jln mudah gi rompak rumah2 board members hospital tu.
	www.danchan.com /weblog/sitinesta/2003/12 (7500 words)

	Yamakasi - Movie Info - TEN Movies
		A group of seven young men, known as Yamakasi, have developed a discipline which inables them to jump off, across and on buildings.
		Nine-year old Djamel admires them and tries to imitate them but falls and is taken to the hospital and need a heart transplant quickly.
		Yamakasi is now steeling money from the rich to pay for Djamel's operation.
	movies.theemiratesnetwork.com /synopses.php?mv=104 (60 words)

	Mistakes of Movies - Yamakasi (2001)
		To present the yamakasi, the police officer sticks photographs on a table.
		When it placed 6 photographs (there are 7 yamakasi), he will speak to his colleagues and one can see that the 7th photograph is already placed on the table.
		When Yamakasi jump on the police car, one sees outside which the front pane is full with faults and is ready to break gold when one is inside, one can observe very well that the front pane is somewhat touched!!
	www.erreursdefilms.com /avent/yamakaus.htm (214 words)

	Stealth Magazine HIP HOP Board - Powered by XMB 1.9.1 Nexus
		The 1st film was okay, not as good as it could've been, but this one looks to be more frantic and uptempo...
		Parisian urban acrobats, known as Yamakasi, fight international organized crime in Thailand.
		An improvement on 2001's "Yamakasi," which was morally bankrupt but made a bundle, this sequel finds the now London-based lads bound for Thailand to set up a gym....
	www.stealthmag.com /board/viewthread.php?tid=3674 (216 words)

	Yamakasi - Moviefone
		Synopsis: The Yamakasi are a real-life group of French daredevils who can scramble up the side of tall buildings and other urban structures as easily as most...
		Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes (2001) Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs,...
		Yamakasi - Movie Info - TEN Movies Information on the Action/Adventure film starring Charles Perriere, Laurent Piemontesi, and Chau Belle and directed by Ariel Zeitoun.
	movies.aol.com /movie/yamakasi/1197906/main (137 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Seven young men who call themselves the Yamakasi have the hobby of climbing tall buildings without any protection.
		After climbing a couple of buildings, the Yamakasi are being hunted by the police and idolized by kids.
		So the Yamakasi go all Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to raise the cash.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20030112.O17 (414 words)

	Yamakasi \| MTV MOVIES
		The operation will cost over 400,000 francs, money the boy's parents don't have, but the Heart Transplant Corporation, the company who can provide the boy with a fresh heart, are not willing to negotiate on the price.
		When the Yamakasi hear about Jamel's plight, they swing into action, planning a daring raid in which they'll raise the money for the surgery by staging split-second robberies of the homes of seven of the wealthiest men in Paris -- all of whom happen to work for the Heart Transplant Corporation.
		Shortly before Yamakasi was to premiere, director Julien Seri and screenwriter Philippe Lyon filed suit against Luc Besson and his production company, claiming their work had been unfairly tampered with; the suit didn't prevent the film from becoming an immediate box-office success in France.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/197102/moviemain.jhtml (190 words)

	2002 Darwin Award: Daredevil
		Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
		(29 September 2002, United Kingdom) The Parisian Yamakasi craze, a building-jumping fad inspired by wire stunts in action films, has been likened to a martial art by its practitioners.
		This urban "art form" was the inspiration for a television advertisement wherein an office worker travels home by leaping between buildings, over fences, and around antenna.
	www.darwinawards.com /darwin/darwin2002-38.html (274 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Yamakasi
		Seven young urban men, nicknamed Yamakasi, will rally together to help out a young boy with a sick heart.
		When they realize the director of the hospital is trying to extract a large sum of money from the poor family of little Jamel, the Yamakasi realize his antics are not quite honorable and will take matters into their own hands.
		This film is like Robin Hood and his merry men, except coloured, and able to jump between tall buildings in a single bound.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=3149&v=vo (441 words)

	Yamakasi [HK Version] DVD \| dir.: Ariel Zeitoun \| cast: Chau Belle Dinh, Williams Belle, Malik Diouf, Yann Hnautra, ...
		Each of them has their own special skill: Rocket runs as fast as a rocket, Spider climbs walls, Baseball is a great pitcher...
		One day a young boy, Djamel, and his friends play at being a Yamakasi, but due to weak heart conditions, he faints while climbing.
		Yamakasi feel responsible for the boy, and then they decide to steal from the rich to give back to the poor...
	www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/filmID.1810/qx/details.htm (428 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Has anyone seen "Yamakasi" written by Luc Besson? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Taxi 2 was great, and the Yamakasi make an aperance in it.
		One thing that pisses me off about all of these Besson flicks so far (well, Taxi 1 and 2, Yamakasi) is that the trailers make them look like the ultimate action-packed thrill rides, but the actual films have very little action in them.
		Still, the HK DVD is only $10, so it's worth trying if you liked the other Besson films.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=167501 (482 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Yamakasi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Producer Luc Besson spotted the Yamakasi (purportedly a word of Zairian origin) on a TV news report.
		The Yamakasi decide they're justified in burglarizing the lavish homes of HTC's seven board members to raise the loot, because -- well, because rich people have too much money and generic 9-year-old boys don't have any.
		Bulk of pic consists of nattily dressed Yamakasis breaking, entering and then exiting with jewels, priceless knickknacks and even a Klimt painting.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117797916.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 (615 words)

	Amazon.com: Yamakasi: DVD: Châu Belle Dinh; Williams Belle; Malik Diouf,Ariel Zeitoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Produced by Luc Besson, Yamakasi is a tale of a group of young men from Paris, all from different backgrounds, who jump off, across, and on buildings for fun.
		The movie kicks into gear when a kid with a heart condition attempts to re-enact a Yamakasi stunt, only to fall and be sent to the hospital.
		Low and behold, he needs a crazy amount of money for the operation to fix his heart and so the real Yamakasi go into action.
	www.amazon.com /Yamakasi-Ariel-Zeitoun/dp/B000EHPXLU (716 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Yamakasi- New Anamorphic version (region ALL)
		Unlike the previous verison that offered English subs (HK) this one does not have a DTS track but...I am glad to drop the DTS track for a good anamorphic treatement (provided this is not a PAL to NTSC port).
		The Yamakasi picture looks more like that one than the Dobermann picture.
		After seeing that I'm almost positive the Yamakasi DVD isn't a PAL to NTSC port.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=350328 (576 words)

	Parkour TV -- Yamakasi -- Video on Parkour TV
		This video, Generation Yamakasi, is a must see for anyone who is a fan, or is considering training in this great art.
		The video is more than one hour long and includes many beautiful and extreme moves, and if you are just here to look at the action, my advice is wait for the video to finish loading and then just skip around.
		this is yamakasi the group named themselves and their 'WAY' yamakasi when they split from david belle so rather than being about efficiancy it was complete freedom of movement this split happend along time before te parkour freerun devide
	www.parkour.tv /show-video.php?video-name=generation-yamakasi (195 words)

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