Category: Reading

  • Harry Potter and the Case of Paranoia

    Though I sweared to myself that I wouldn’t dish money to watch HP6 for obvious shipping reasons, and my not enjoying Hp6 and HP7. UMPH! – I’ve been tempted, I must admit… these past few days to actually go and check it out. Anyway!

    I have made up my mind! – thanks to this –

    I ain’t going… I ain’t dishing my money. Maybe my time…
    who knows~ depends on the time LOL
    maybe soon, maybe on cable…

    Obviously press get press screenings, so they can review it and properly fuzz about the film. It’s usually an invitation, you go to a certain time and place to watch it, maybe discuss it… enjoy it, and write about it telling everyone to go watch it, or just dismiss it.

    It’s commonly known that you’re not to bring your cameras… or camera cellphones (?? what for, can you really record decent footage long enough in a cellphone?) – whatever. It’s just insulting to know that you’re invited somewhere but BEWARE, you will be arrested if you’re seen breaking the rules. ARRESTED! Doesn’t the police force have other things to do????

    Why bother then to invite someone if you are already thinking he/she will be ripping your movie off? Are we in the assumption that all guests are there to record your movie?

    In any case, I doubt CAM film versions come out of Peru, so not much need to fuzz over it at the moment. They are usually fromo outside… and I doubt CAMs are press screening made. And even then, maybe a nice “this is a screener” text would suffice.

  • More Juri and Nodame!!

    December 19!!!

    Of course I will have to wait a little for it… with luck, it won’t be too long.

    Nodame Movie 2009

    GYABO!!! xD

    btw, sounds like a very fun European tour…

    Last month on the 16th, they already started filming in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. They continued in Brno, the Czech Republic and after that they arrived in Vienna, Austria. After Vienna, they went back to Brno also filmed a few scenes Prague. Right now they are in France and about to start filming in Paris.

    More photos and videos via the Juri LJ Comm xD

    Chiaki-sempai!!!! Gyabo~~~ xD
    Oh, man~ I love Nodame-chan xD – Onara Taisou!!

  • Yu’s “My Favorite Book, Japan’s 100 Favorite Books”

    Months ago I blogged this NHK 10 min. segment on Yu’s favorite book. Tabi o Suru ki? – Google translates it as “Tree Travel”? – Well, YouTube user kaurismaki uploaded the 10min. not long ago. It would be AWESOME to get this subbed =D even though you don’t see much of Yu, but the segment seems to have a good feeling. Very serious.

    Once again, a request to get this translated! It would be awesome to hard-sub this. ^^

  • Four is an Unlucky Number – YAM004

    LOL’

    Does that say enough to you? Really, read the editor’s note. Lots of things on this new issue… new problems, new films, new music…

    Reviews of films from the blockbuster season… Star Trek, Wolverine, Terminator Salvation, Up~~~ Brothers Bloom. Short film reviews, concert reviews… of Kiss in Lima. Music reviews of The Sounds, Green Day, Shiina Ringo… a bunch of K-pop courtesy of Julz~~~ off you go to Japan!!! WOOOOO – there’s Life on Mars, House M.D. and my more “professional” review of Yu Aoi’s Portugirl.

    Yam004

    Head over here.

  • Yu Aoi Film Discussion – Tekkonkinkreet

    Let’s start with what the film is about:
    Tekkon Kinkreet is an animated film adaptation of the Black and White manga series by Taiyou Matsumoto, directed by Michael Arias (Animatrix). The name of the film is a pun on “Tekkin Concrete”, the Japanese term for reinforced concrete. It tells the story of two street kids, tough Kuro (Black) and innocent Shiro (White) living in a fictional city known as Treasure Town, a city that is filled with crooks and the yakuza.

    Genre: Animation, Drama, Comedy, Action with violence.
    With the voices of: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yu Aoi, Yusuke Iseya, Kankuro Kudo
    Duration: nearly 2hrs

    Spoilers ahead! Of the film and manga~~~

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  • Life is… Precious – Trailer

    Formerly known as “Push,” Precious was the winner of this year’s Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Drama. Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, it tells the story of a teenage girl named Precious living in Harlem…

    Movie looks good… PLUS! they say Mariah can act. LOL

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krQiRIUSZs0

  • My First Japanese Post

    Yu Aoi - Knitted BeanieLOL

    日本語で最初のポスト！

    「トラベルサンド」はすばらしいです。
    これは私のお気に入りの優ちゃんの本。
    の写真は奇麗が思う。
    ヨーコ-さんはかっこいいです。蒼井優も。

    このビーニーが大好きだから。
    みんな。。。このブランドは何ですか？
    知らないよ。。。
    君は知っていますか？

    ごめんね！これは全て私は書くことができます。

    日本語は難しいですね！

    Well~~~ that was tough.
    Wanna know what it says?? I sure hope I did this right~~

    Of course I thought what I wanted to say first,
    so I hope the Japanese I tried to use did the job I intended…

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  • Ike-chan to Boku Trailer

    Ike-chan and Me TrailerNippon Cinema has just posted the trailer released by Kadokawa Pictures~~~ with a brief intro by Yu and…

    Ike-chan to Boku, mitte kudasai~~~

    Trailer has a whole bunch of new footage to me… unless they’ve been releasing clips through their website, which I’m not aware of. However, Ike-chan still looks out of place, no? Pops out from the picture… doesn’t look as cute as the one on paper… you think?

    Head over here for the trailer via Nippon Cinema.

  • Yu Aoi Film Discussion – Mushishi – Bugmaster

    Now, let’s see… I wrote this review a long while ago. So long ago that I ended up watching the anime series xP

    I’ve re-checked this review to try and have a balance between someone who didn’t know anything about Mushishi, and someone who saw the anime, and I think this review serves its purpose. Many of the things I felt weren’t properly built up, are in fact because the anime is very episode-based, and not much of a series… which I liked by the way. The anime is really REALLY great, so if you’re thinking of watching it after (or before) the film, go watch it.

    Anyway… here we go~~

    Something about the film:
    (from Wikipedia)
    This is a 2006 Live Action adaptation of the Manga series by Yuki Urushibara, featuring ubiquitous creatures called Mushi, which most humans are incapable of perceiving. However, there are few who possess the ability to see and interact with them, one of them is Ginko who refers to himself as a Mushishi (or Bugmaster), traveling from place to place to research Mushi and help people suffering from problems caused by them.

    The film corresponds to chapters 2, 7, 9 and 15 of the Manga.

    Genre: Fantasy
    Starring: Joe Odagiri, Nao Omori, Makiko Esumi, Yu Aoi
    Duration: +2hrs

    You know the drill. Spoilers ahead, you’ve been warned.

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  • The Big Read – Because Everyone Deserves to Learn How to Read~~

    The Big Read - 2009

    Nelson Mandela, Queen Rania, Paulo Coelho, Luis Jaime Cisneros V. have come together with others around the world like Natalie Portman, and Dakota Blue Richards (The Golden Compass) on this global project for education.

    You can head over here to read some of the stories (in English, Francais, y Español~~ some even in Arabic… but why not in Chinese, Japanese and Korean? I could do some Japanese easy to read stuff~~), and add your name to the list~