Tag: japan

  • More Experiment Awards’ Warm-up

    It’s 35 films this year! Woohoo! Well, not much to celebrate since some of those were really REALLY bad, but they count for the movie countdown~~~
    In the meantime, I’ve decided to put my list of Best 2001 films.

    It was really difficult to choose some, as I seem to not have seen many 2001 films, so many of my nominees are the same as the Oscar, I feel. Remembering the films made me remember about the first time I actively waited for the Oscar. I mean, the event in itself was something I did, but that year was the year I said I’m gonna watch the Oscar to see who will win. American Beauty won that year, as did Kevin Spacey and The Matrix. 1999 Films, wow~~~ I was 13 going on 14.

    Anyway~ without further ado~~~

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  • Google Street View’s Privacy Concern

    What better way to show people that Google cares about your privacy, than with a cute animation on how it’s done. Only from Google Japan, of course~~~

  • Yu Aoi’s Gakuya on NHK

    Crap! And it’s not on NHK World Premium…
    whatever~~~

    If you haven’t missed my past Yu posts, you’ll know that she worked on a play called Gakuya this past May and June. Well, Yu’s site was updated saying that Gakuya will be broadcast on NHK next month.

    October 9th, 2009 at 10.30pm

    get more Japanese info here.

    There’s also some text saying that there will be some more info on Yu’s new 2010 Calendar, which looks kinda Hansel-y and Gretel-y… ja? Do you wanna know my opinion? Yu’s Message page has only been updated twice this year. Once with that cryptic message from Venezuela [part1][part2], and the other announcing Portugirl. Before those posts? There was a 2009 Calendar post. Am I complaining? Yes, I am. LOL

    But damn, I can’t ever stay too mad.

    They’ve also posted photos off-shoots from the So-En shoot.

    Yu Aoi - So-En - Off-shoot

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  • Let’s Pimp some Shugo~

    Shugo Oshinari is freaking 28 years old! WTF, man!
    He’s almost 30, looks in his early 20s still and totally lacks fangirls.
    And I mean like “good” fangirls the ones who work hard
    to get whatever scans, whatever movie, and work on whatever needs subbing. LOL
    You can’t really find many good scans, screencaps…
    etc, etc… everything fandoms love to fuzz about.

    Shugo Oshinari

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  • 20 Actors Between 20-25 to Watch until They’re 30

    This week I was thinking about making a compilation of 20 actors (women and men) between the ages of 20-25 to keep track until they’re 30. I tried writing the post today, but it turns out I don’t have many names. Ha! First, some of the people I was considering adding to the list are 26, or not even 20… or are already in their 30s, which is great for them since I thought they were in their 20s… not so good for my list.

    At the moment though, I have 8 actresses already picked out. However, I’m missing 2 more actresses. And I’m missing all of the guys (10). HAHAHAHA. So I need help. Leave a comment with some names of young actors/actresses.

    Just some things to keep in mind…

    • must be between 20-25, can also be turning 20 this year.
    • must have more than one or two films on her/his CV.
    • too much TV and only 1 film doesn’t count.
    • award recognition is nice, but not mandatory.

    As I add the people in single posts, I’ll be adding their names here and linking. :)

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  • La Nueva Yma Sumac by La Casa Azul

    Just ran into this very cute music video – alert! Yma Sumac pop culture reference xD – really, I never thought I would have seen Yma Sumac named alongside Superman, but alas~~~ La Casa Azul (the blue house) has come up with the song (the new Yma Sumac) and this cute Cartoon Network-esque music video.

    And they’ve made the original Spanish version, and a Japanese version! Though sounds wayyyyy cuter in Japanese. It’s the whole electro-cutesy pop vibe, you know? It just fits better with the voice.

    you can check the Spanish version here, and
    visit Cocoe Studios who were in charge of the animation~~~

  • Yu Aoi by Keiichi Nitta

    This is a pretty old photoshoot, February 2007 in fact~
    but I care about photographers, and I wanted to know
    who shot it, for who and when xD so I took my time to post.

    Yu Aoi - Eye Scream - Keiichi Nitta

    Shot by Keiichi Nitta, who has photographed Lady Gaga x Koda Kumi, Kylee, Aoi Miyazaki, Justice, Chiaki Kuriyama, M.I.A., Beck, Madonna, Beyonce, The Chemical Brothers, Fergie and even La LiLo xD

    His photographs, more often than not exude sexiness, sex oftentimes with a mix of innocence, playfulness and edgy. So it is no wonder that this is perhaps Yu’s more “Fierce” photoshoot to date. LOL To quote on Tyra xD In here, she plays a little with the Lolita-esque style looking oh-so-innocent… NOT. One of the photos, one of the very first photos I saw online, has that just-got-out-of-bed quality to it. Only I saw it in black and white and cropped on the face, which makes it look so good.

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  • Yu Aoi, a Mori Girl?

    I think Kawaii Joyuu will explain it better,

    Do you know the latest buzzword “Mori Girl”? It’s a term that got created in the mixi community, a huge social networking system and one of the most visited Japanese sites in the Internet. The general definition would be a “a girl who seems to be/live in a forest”, describing a girl who would fit more into a forest rather than into a city.

    “She has to like fashion that’s natural, but also a bit quirky” or “She wears a lot of dresses that have a loose or comfortable feeling to them”, to name a few of the opinions. The difficulty is that the girl should like “natural clothes”

    They did a ranking, in which Yu had nearly 50% of all the votes, pulling a head (for the first time?) of Aoi Miyazaki and Juri Ueno. Also on the list, Mikako Ichikawa – who I think looks amazing with hair pulled up *points to Atsu-hime* And YAY! for the Top 3~~~ xD

    Anyway, spoon magazine did a whole issue on it on March. =D

    spoon magazine - mori girl

    I should use the cover, but this is my favorite shot. xD

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  • The 5 Bags – Guitar Case Girl

    Minna! Great news, yo!

    First, Juri Ueno and the 5 Bags begins in less than 20hrs with the 1st episode titled “GITA~ KE~SU no Onna” (Her Guitar Case) or in this case… Guitar Case Girl, directed by Hideta Takahata who also directed Chapter 2 of WOWOW’s Camouflage with Yu Aoi. xD

    Greatest news? Someone will be fansubbing this. YAY!!
    A big hooray for ViiKii.net!!! Hooray!!

    Can I beg and grovel for Camouflage subs, Viikii??? xD

  • Yu in Drag!?

    Finally time~~~

    This post is dedicated to Julz, who always mentions that Yu-chan looks like a very cute boy. Now, the newest issue of So-En magazine has given me the chance to search online for photos of Yu in drag. Why? Well, as the title on the magazine suggests… “Aoi Yu no BO~IZU SUTAIRU!” or “Yu Aoi’s Boy Style!”

    Yu Aoi - So-En - Boy Style

    I haven’t found great big scans of this, just a photo of a photo. But the rest of “Boyish Yu” from other shoots make up for it, I think…

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