Category: Moving Media

  • Rookie of the Year Award for Yu!!

    Yu Aoi - 2009 - Rookie of the Year Award CeremonyRookie? LOL’ I don’t think she’s a ‘rookie’ perse but okay… I’ll take it!

    The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan has named Yu (in the fields of Media and Fine Arts) their Rookie of the Year Award (Movies).

    On why they are giving this award to her, they talk about her debut on the Shunji Iwai film All About Lily Chou Chou, and her steady career throughout the years mentioning Hula Girls. They also mention her work on One Million Yen Girl the past year, as well as her natural talent. Finally, they close their paragraph saying that Yu’s future is expected with much anticipation.

    Or something like that…

    Also named there in the field of Public Art, Shiina Ringo!!!! Like… Rookie?? Again~~

    Sorry, no photos~~

    *update March 30th* – Added a photo from Yu’s site.

    *update May 20th* – Added a link to video. Check it out after the break…

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  • Jugemu, the Tongue Twister

    In October last year, I posted an extra from the Hana & Alice DVD, in which the cast did a rhyme or a “rakugo” – which by the way wasn’t on Wikipedia back then – and I took a while to get what they were saying, but now there’s information!

    The rhyme is called Jugemu, and it’s one of the most popular rakugo for its featuring on NHK’s Nihongo de Asobo segment… which was the program I quoted last February, when I posted a comment with the romaji for it. Jugemu tells the story of a man picking a name for his newborn baby. When the priest gives him a list of auspicious names, the man decides to use all of them to give his child a lot of luck in life, resulting in a super long name.

    The Japan Forum

    The Tikki Tikki Tembo story is also kind of funny~~

  • Natalie Portman for A Powerful Noise

    In light of all those “natalie portman oscar 2009” searches~~ which have been A LOT since yesterday – what’s up with that, by the way? -A Powerful Noise is a documentary following 3 women in Mali, Vietnam, and Bosnia-Herzegovina as they overcome their battles against ignorance, poverty, ethnic strife and oppression.

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    Well, Lainey did a short post on it;

    Sigh.

    I love her.

    She’s involved, interesting, and interested. She’s smart. She’s sassy. She’s funny. She’s SO beautiful. And there’s a grace about Natalie Portman that is intoxicating.

    She also does a brief mention to which I totally agree~~

    Please!

    Ryan Gosling >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Robert Pattinson.

    ‘Nuff said.

  • Experiment Awards 2009

    Just for experiment purpose ONLY. Picking nominees during award season is a tough job, considering the people in charge have to sit through hundreds of films in a certain period of time to just pick them… then they probably have to see them once again to refresh their memories and pick a winner.

    Even like that, there’s still people upset about not nominated and nominated films… right? You know who you are~~ Stop complaining and do something.

    Amy's Experiment Awards 2009

    That’s why I wanted to do some experimenting… have our own awards. Well, no~ we don’t have the money to have famous people… or to have a proper ceremony, or to make our own awards to hand out physically. Actually, we have nothing but our will to watch films, comment and try to get others to watch those films, but that will be enough~~ I think.

    These would be the rules for films:

    1. All films, regardless of language, are eligible
    2. Only movies listed on IMDb on the year of the award, or released between February January to December in any city of any country around the world are eligible.
    3. Films with a very limited release, and/or problems with distribution will likely have points for them and might be eligible for the next two years.
    4. Since all the nominated films could be foreign, there will be no “Best Foreign Film” award.
    5. Sorry. No documentaries or shorts at the moment.

    Rules for the voters:

    1. To be able to nominate the films you watch throughout February to December, you must AT LEAST watch one movie a week. That means at least 48 movies that year. Of course you can watch all 48 films in December instead, but that’d be rushing it, no?
    2. Each voter must do their nomination (5 nominees per category) list by the first week of January (January 7th, duh).
    3. Official nominations will be announced three days later on January 10th.
    4. Voters will be able to choose their winners from January 11th to January 28th, allowing them to re-watch their nominations and/or watch the nominated films they couldn’t watch before.
    5. Winners will be announced by the end of the month on January 31st.

    Hmm… I think I covered most of all. If I have forgotten to deal with something, let me know on a comment or an e-mail. Also, if you’re interested in becoming a voter, make sure you do the same… e-mail, comment… anything. The more, the better the experiment will run, right?

  • More February LivingSocial

    Meh~ screencapped my other ones as well…

    LivingSocial: Books

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  • For the Sholly Shipper Out There~~

    I know you’re there… the Sholly posts keep getting hits, and they are only 2nd to that Child Actors post I made a while back. LOL’

    So stop the lurkin’ already, and comment a little…

    We just saw Ep06, and we’re just two weeks away from finishing this exasperating season, but hey! You saw that photo of Molly, right? The one Shane was developing… you loved it, right? ‘Coz everytime there’s a glimps of Clementine Ford in one of the latest episodes, Sholly searches spike a little. As do Katherine Moennig and Clementine searches~~

    Some may think that cheating is catching up to Shane, and that’s what made her sick. I, on the other hand, think Jenny is wack. She totally did something to Shane, hahaha. And if she didn’t, well… that ‘good’ gesture she did by giving Shane the Photo Studio – that totally smells to ‘strings attached’. And Shane’s totally trapped.

    Screencaps after the break.

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  • Oscar Winners and Moments

    Oh, Hugh… what happened to thee~~

    But that’s another subject~~ It’s not like I despised Beyonce, and the Disney people on ‘my’ stage. I didn’t like them, that’s all. LOL’

    It’s not like their Moulin Rouge number was totally unnecesary, instead they should have performed the Original Songs separately… and NOT have John Legend trying to butt in Jai Ho. On that subject, the drums… VERY COOL.

    Natalie Portman… hot. + Ben Stiller doing Joaquin Phoenix??? Just OH!-Some~~~

    Natalie Portman and Ben Stiller - Oscar 2009

    What else is cool (though mildly surprising…) – JAPAN WINNING, not ONE BUT TWO!!! For Best Short Film Animated – which was great – but also getting FOREIGN FILM, when I so totally thought Waltz with Bashir would win. Okuribito (Departures) took back home Foreign Film~~ I totally FLIPPED.

    Other cool moments… Best Actress. GOSH! Sophia Loren… Shirley MacLaine… Marion Cotillard (My Marion, OUR Marion), Halle Berry and Nicole Kidman. AND! Kate Winslet winning! Introduced by Marion! And Sophia Loren with her accent… introducing the fab+++ Meryl! I’d die for an intro of any of those two.

    Actually, that was my favorite category of the night, haha. I’m glad for Best Actor… and Supporting Actress~~~ Penelope!! I have to update an old post on Oscar Studded Films~~~

    And Tina Fey!! She was funny~~ as James Franco was.

    I think I did pretty good on predictions (20/24) … I hope no one did better than me in the contest I entered hahaha.

    Slumdog took 8, while Button took 3, Milk 2, Dark Knight 2 – the rest, if not mistaken took 1. xD

    Winners and more photos below the break~~

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  • Live @ ITG – Oscar 2009

    Here you go~

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  • Oscar 2009 Winners and Live @ ITG!

    Will be blogging when Red Carpet begins… even though I’m not that good at it. But check back on this spot for Red Carpet moments, and Winners as they are announced.

    Also, I was invited to be ‘panelist’ at ITG, so head over there for a LIVE blog of the Award show itself.

    Moments and winners, will be posted as they happen after the break

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  • Me @ J-MELO Site

    xD – Just found me, while looking for times at the NHK Premium website – yes, ‘coz I still haven’t figured out if I will be able to see Yu talk about that book I mentioned posts behind… – not sure it will air in NHK Premium. What I did find, however, the times that Top Runner airs~~~

    Wednesdays 6am GMT-5 – if you recall… Top Runner had Yu a while back. Check back on it here.

    But yeah, on the J-MELO business… I emailed them once to thank them for the Miyavi introduction, as well as the Kobukuro one~~ And being the geek that I am, I sent a picture coz there was a field~ xD – I wonder if they ever read my email on the air… hahaha.

    Me at the J-MELO website gallery~