Category: Films

  • Yu Aoi for Rurouni Kenshin Live-Action

    Is any of you Yu-chan fans a fan of Rurouni Kenshin?

    I gotta admit that I’ve never read the manga — but I hardly read any manga or comic, so… — and I seldom watched the anime series they just to show regularly on Cartoon Network. But I did watch (and own) that OVA movie… Samuari X: Truth and Betrayal. I kinda loved it.

    But I don’t know much about the Rurouni Kenshin universe, so I can’t tell you much.

    Yu Aoi has been confirmed as Takani Megumi, which according to Wikipedia:

    Megumi is the youngest daughter of Takani Ryūsei, a well-known doctor in Aizu which was an important province supporting the Tokugawa Shogunate. During the Boshin Wars, Megumi’s father died and the rest of her family went missing, leaving her as the sole survivor.

    […]

    Watsuki’s describes his standalone Megumi as bearing a “lighter quality” as she had a small role in that story. In the final series Watsuki decided to give her an “earthy quality” so she could make an impression on the reader.

    The description on Wikipedia makes it sound like an interesting role involving Megumi knowing Western and Eastern medicine… and the tragic disappearance of her family, as well as an opium storyline. But alas, I doubt they will deal with that in the film, considering she’s not a main character xD

    Yu-chan is joined by Munetaka Aoki, who was on Nihonjin Shiranai no Nihongo and also shared credits with Yu-chan on NHK’s Taiga drama last year. Both actors will be back together with their Ryomaden director, Keishi Otomo.

  • Yu Aoi for Tamatama Movie

    I don’t… even know how she does it.

    Or in general. How does Japan do it to not let anyone outside the production know that they’re making any type of movie? Because when they want you to, they make sure you know.

    How is it possible that we find out Yu Aoi was shooting a movie in location in Ireland a little over a month before the movie is set to open? Yes, Yu Aoi’s new movie is called Tamatama (translated to “by chance”) and is set to open on October 15th.

    Little details are known from this Tokyograph report:

    The film’s main concept is “tamatama,” which means “by chance.” Aoi plays a young woman who travels to Ireland, and the fantasy story depicts her life there as she encounters different people and places, resulting in occasional “miracles.”

    Except for the miracle part, it sounds a lot like One Million Yen Girl… sans the Bitter-bug. xD

    The film marks the debut for CM and MV director Komatsu Mayumi (小松真弓).

  • In the Mood for Dancing~

    I literally burst out laughing when I saw this on the DVD

    It’s supposed to be a deleted scene from In the Mood for Love — understandable considering it totally kills that moody setting throughout the whole thing. But the part of me that laughed heartly would have loved it included…

  • In the Mood for Love: Hong Kong, 1960s

    Going through my last batch of DVDs to arrive, there’s some pretty kick-ass extras in the Criterion edition of In the Mood for Love. And why wouldn’t there be, right? It’s Criterion! Listen to Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung speaking in English is… something else. xD

    There’s a quote from an essay included in the DVD that struck a chord and wanted to share

    As an African-American singing in Spanish, [Nat King] Cole embodies American Culture’s ability to absorb, transform, and commodify the exotic for its own ends. In other words, America takes from the world and sells what it has borrowed back to those from whom it was taken.

    In the Mood for Love
    Hong Kong, 1960s Introduction
    Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction by Gina Marchetti

    Amazon.com | Google Books

  • The Harmony Evil Kiss

    I know this is wrong.

    SOOOOOO wrong, but all this Harry Potter talk has stirred my Shipper brain which had been laying dormant since… the better part of the Order of the Phoenix movie and the release of the last book.

    I suffered so much with the last book, it felt like being mocked. Especially in the Evil Kiss part, it felt like tainting all those hours reading those long and thought out essays. It was like all those who supported Harry/Hermione were… well, evil. LOL We were like the Horcrux, tainting a pure friendship with those dark bits in the Evil Kiss.

    I’ve made peace with that, in my own way.

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  • LGBT Blogathon is ON!

    Still deciding a few more films and tv shows I should review and talk about.

    I don’t think I have enough time~

    In the meantime, follow all the posts that will be added during the week.

  • Yu is Depressed on Vampire

    Yesterday was a good day to be a Yu-chan fan.

    *cough* subs for Raiou are out.

    The YAM Magazine Weibo account was flooded of Hana & Alice talk – I still don’t know why, but I can’t complain.

    And Acerk messaged me with news of two stills from Shunji Iwai’s Vampire featuring Yu.

    I was really excited.

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  • Kou Shibasaki is a Rocking Lady Shogun

    Thoughts on Ooku?

    You know I really really love Kou Shibasaki’s acting (not so much her music), and she was easily the best part in that movie. And it’s not even that scene in which the chambers opened to a sight of pretty men bowing to her, and she tells them they’re a bunch of useless and pretty men. LOL

    Is not even that scene.

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  • Ten Actresses that Should Move to Cable

    Re-pimping this old list~ xD

    It’s always been tough to be a working actress on the big screen, as you turn a little older, offers often seem to be linked to “being someone else’s mother,” but cable television seems to be becoming more and more attractive to not only writers – because they get to write more challenging stories and skip censors – but also to women who were movie actresses and have found new complex roles to take on.

    you can read the whole thing on YAM Magazine~

  • Hanna: Interview with Seth Lochhead

    Can we agree that Hanna looks like she could be on our list of Top5 Little Girls on Film?

    You can head over here to read the interview.

    By the way, first time doing an interview via email. Interesting experience.