HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break. I’ll admit I ate way too much over Christmas. I’ve turned into such a glutton! I guess it’s time to start that new fitness regimen. +++ I’m a little behind in vacation posts, so I’ll get right into the next one. The day after the Arashi concert we had another early start in Harajuku at the Toni & Guy salon. I had asked Yuka to book our appointments before…
I survived my movie marathon!! It was a grueling 3 days and I don’t think I will ever schedule 6 movies in 3 days again. However, I had a great time at the festival this year and I’m happy I caught a few good films. =) I guess the biggest hype this year from Japan was the North American premiere of Norwegian Wood. I couldn’t get tickets to the first two screenings, so I missed the Q&A with the director….
Sorry for such a long delay in between entries! It just seemed like it was just yesterday when summer started. It hardly seems like it’s mid-September. Granted, we didn’t have much of a summer this year, but the time still flew quickly. This past week was by far the busiest week I’ve had all year. It has been non-stop since last weekend with TIFF starting, then Japanese classes, plus having my parents out of town. I was going back and…
So I decided to split my post into two parts, since I have a tendency to write essays when I blog (I apologize for my long entries). But here is the movie summary where I tried to account all the scenes that are worth mentioning. (I wish I could have tallied the amount of times Sho said ‘Yabee‘ in the movie, but I could only remember so much). +++++ Basically the movie is set in the futuristic city of Tokyoko….
(aka Yatterman Take 2) After months of waiting I finally had the chance to see this movie! I was pleasantly surprised that it exceeded my expectations. I thought I would be a little bias since Sho-kun is in it, but the movie itself was an explosion of colour and action that was very much representative of Miike. +++++ Backtrack to a month prior to the festival. I was a little annoyed by the lack of updates on the Fantasia site…