Category: Japanese

  • Last batch of 2009 music~

    Here we go~~

    These aren’t necessarily 2009 albums, but were listened in the last days of 2009. xD

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  • If Only… Miao Miao

    Posting one by one my 5 picks mixed with Acerk’s so he doesn’t get bored re-reading his entries.

    Anyway, I invite all Yu fans to participate… you know, if you’re interested.

    Please, no “I wish Yu could be in Avatar” – I beg you. LOL

    Also… please, subscribe subscribe and take notice of the ad pimps.

    5. Miao Miao

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  • If Only… April Story

    by Acerk.

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    In my opinion, Yu’s had a pretty decent 10-year career. She’s been a supporting character more than I would prefer, but who cares, she’s still young and has a long way to go. Here are 5 movies that I wish she could have been in. I believe each film selected would have helped her career in one way or another.

    5. April Story

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  • If Only… Yu Aoi Edition

    During the holidays, I messaged Acerk about him collaborating on a series of posts about films that he would have liked Yu Aoi to be in. If Only is fairly simple.

    You pick your subject, in our case Yu Aoi, and choose films that we would have loved to see her in. There’s just a few rules to the game, the subject needs to positively be right for the role. For example, as much as I could love Cate Blanchett on Elizabeth… Yu Aoi can NOT play her. LOL

    Of course, there are work-arounds to your logic…

    Like for example a 1999 film with a 20-something year old character. You could argue that Yu would be just a teen back then, but she could star in it now. Or a 2001 film about a girl in her late-teens… Yu was in her late teens.

    Of course, the Elizabeth role would need to be a pretty awesome logic xD

    Anyway, Acerk agreed, and this is his queue that he should send me something. I had my picks last week, but I lost them — soo… I had to try to remember them, but they turned out a little bit different. Hopefully better than my first picks. Definitely interesting choices.

    If you (not Acerk, coz he’s already doing a set) are interested on making your OWN If Only assumptions, leave a comment stating it. Everyone is welcomed! Especially Yu Aoi fans.

    What do you think about the idea?

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    These are our If Only picks~

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  • Yu Aoi 2010 Calendar

    I wasn’t gonna post these — like I said, not a calendar person — , but ran into some okay scans,
    so now I’m looking for all of them. If you have them, resolution of 560px wide or more
    leave a link on the comments!

    I can totally see Dutch Milk Maid… or Hansel & Gretel. Ja?

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  • Fumidasu Movie – Sute Neko OL with Yu Aoi

    Yu Aoi is featured on CMs for U-Can (ユーキャン) a company dealing with distance learning courses and communication, among other stuff. One of the promotional materials is an almost-12-minute short film titled Sute Neko OL, or Stray Cat Office Lady, in which Yu plays Mayumi Yamamoto (?) an office lady who finds a stray cat…

    some captures after the break~

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  • Bad Ass Fruity o-Mochi

    xD

    It was seriously good, and pretty.

    it was so effing tasty… the green one had a Guanabana (Soursop) filling, which was my fave. Then there was the chocolate one, and the Lucuma one~~~ The rest, I think, had a sweetened bean paste… which is the most common. We also had a lot of Japanese food, which was popular because we don’t normally get makis, sushi and sashimi on New Year. There was also pancetta with crispy skin (like REALLY crispy, really so effing good). We had sticky rice, spicy jellyfish, sweet potato noodle salad, and egg tarts xD

    Food is so good, why would anyone not eat?

  • Last batch of films seen Nov-Dec 2009

    Two months worth of films to close the year,
    let’s hope 2010 brings loads of good ones…

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  • Best Songs of 2000-2009 – Part 3/5

    We are still going backwards with this listing of songs…

    I think 2006 and 2007 marked my shift of Asian focus in music. It’s weird, I don’t think it’s about lyrics as I most often than not don’t search for lyric translations. I have just found Asian music to be more “musically” interesting than their Western counterparts.

    I once had a throughout conversation with a friend online who lives in Morocco, and is a huge fan of Asian entertainment, and has lost all notion of Western entertainment. I asked him why his interests shifted, and he told me it was because there was a point in his life where everything looked and sounded the same to him.

    Others have commented on the topic with regards of idols’ image and the degradation of the business.

    With the turn of the new decade, we will see how big the Asian entertainment industry gets. Many will be watching… I will keep an eye on this.

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  • Japanese Films and Other Asian Film Short Takes

    This isn’t a regular Award Season post.

    But it’s a lot of postings… I should post one by one, but I am lazy… even if it increases posts number which have decreased a bit this month.

    First with the Most Anticipated~~~

    Yu gets a mention for Otouto which is about to open in a few days~~~

    Then we go to some award nominations~~~

    Dear Doctor gets Best Picture and Best Director for Miwa Nishikawa, as well as awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress (Kimiko Yo) at the Nikkan. Mother got some love for Foreign Film, and Masaki Okada earned the New Artist for A Pierrot (what? LOL)

    The Hochi awards the film with a Best Director as well, a Best Supporting Actor for Eita, and a Supporting Actress for Kaoru Yachigusa. Michael Jackson got a Special Award, and some more love for Ken Watanabe, Clint Eastwood and Masaki Okada who also won Best New Artist for Honokaa Boy.

    Seems like the Japan Academy Award will be fought over The Sun Doesn’t Set, and Dear Doctor~~~

    And to close this post, a Top Best Asian Films of the Decade.
    Will work on mine later~~~