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Written by Amy on Monday, December 1st, 2008 ( Start discussion ) |
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Forgive for not posting sooner… I got sick. Is it foreboding of the year to come? After all the dude didn’t fall of the Mikoshi, and the sake was opened not on the count of three. AND, next year is an odd number year… my family always gets screwed some way or the other on odd number years…
Anyway… at the Matsuri, I saw Daikon-san.
And I thought of Osen, and I laughed… and took the picture. LOL - Then I had lunch, which wasn’t all that good (I think it also did me some wrong), saw the music performances… and stuff, and it was windy, so I got a fever, which did me more wrong. I was kinda screwed yesterday, so I couldn’t even sit in front of the computer… at least not until 10pm, when I began working on the photos.
I’m okay now, only a sore neck…
Filed under: English, Fun, Japanese, Photographs, Rants, Sharing, Spanish
Written by Amy on Friday, November 28th, 2008 ( One response ) |
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This film discussion doesn’t come until after the Honey & Clover live action movie, but I thought it will be good to post this now since Cinemax Latin America is showing the film this December and January (and perhaps scattered February, check times here).
This was probably the third film I saw of Yu, I was most impressed with the fact that Asians could move their booties like that… call it my Latin American gene that told me that the Asian gene makes you unfit to dancing. xD
Here’s the 12-part video on YouTube. Or just wait for it on cable…
A little about the film:
(from Wikipedia)
It’s a 2006 Japanese-award-winning film based on true events of a small coal mining town facing the shut down of the mine, and looking at the loss of +2000 jobs. While all the grownups seemed to be fuzzing about the future of their coal-legacy, a young group of girls see a gleam of hope in the opening of The Hawaiian Center, and hula dancing.
Genre: Drama, Comedy and dancing!
Starring: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yu Aoi, Eri Tokunaga, Shoko Ikezu & Shizuyo Yamazaki
Duration: 2hrs
Spoilers ahead, you’ve been warned.
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Filed under: Celebrity, DVD, English, Films, Fun, Japanese, Posters, Reviews, Sharing, Spanish, Television, Torrents
Tags: etsushi toyokawa, hula girls, shoko ikezu, yu aoi, yu aoi film discussion
Written by Amy on Friday, November 28th, 2008 ( Start discussion ) |
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Jinseitte Uso Mitai, or Life is like a Lie, is the first 3-episode-chapter of the Yu Aoi WOWOW drama Camouflage (previously known as Aoi Yu x 4 Lies) which aired at the beginning of the year, and it’s already on DVD. Finally saw! WEEEE - I waited… what, 6 months??? And still haven’t finished ‘coz no one is translating, and my translator bailed on me… dunno where he is.
So I re-watched the three episodes last night, though the 3rd episode only had subs in the story and not on the introductions (in which the director and writer explain a bit), and the ending (where the photographer shows and explains the photos taken), so kinda missed some of the episode.
Anyway…
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Filed under: Celebrity, DVD, English, Fun, Japanese, Photographs, Sharing, Television
Tags: camouflage, marissa shimamoto, yu aoi, 嶋本麻利沙
Written by Amy on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 ( Start discussion ) |
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When I watched Memories of Matsuko, there was one scene when Matsuko’s life was already going to the gutters, she was lying on the garbage bags, and she was watching TV. I immediately recognized the song as an Okaasan to Issho song… today I decided to look for it, and found it!
Okaasan to Issho 1999 song, at first I thought it was a Takoyaki Mambo song, but I was lucky enough to find it on a website listing all the songs. Video and Romaji after the break!
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Filed under: English, Films, Fun, Lyrics, Motion, Romaji, Sharing, Television
Tags: eita, kiraware matsuko no issho, memories of matsuko, nhk, okaasan to issho
Written by Amy on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 ( 4 responses ) |
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I know some *coughjulyssacough* tried to sample some Bibi Chow [aka. Zhou Bichang] but couldn’t. I just found out… you can sample all of Bibi’s music (sans download, I think) on her website. But ALAS! If you google Bibi Chow you won’t find her website… so I will make it easy. Bibi’s website is BibiSky.com - call me CRUISE, but I thought that was kinda NOT obvious… but oh well, okay.
It’s Flash-based, so can’t give you a direct URL to the music, but follow this:
- enter BibiSky.com and wait for it to load.
- on the green menu [commonly known as the main navigation], click the first option
- you are on bibi’s desk now. there are 4 items on the sub-navigation.
- click on the 3rd item of the sub-navigation. this item will open the stereo on bibi’s desk.
- the stereo has its own navigation to go through bibi’s music [misc., EP, NOW/WOW + other stuff, and Who Touch my Violin String]
- listen away…
Enjoy,
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Filed under: Chinese, English, Fun, Music, Sharing
Tags: bibi chow, download, ep, mp3, now, who touch mu violin string, wow, zhou bichang