Friday, February 03, 2006
In just a day itself, i've watched 2 films related to the japanese culture.
oh man don't i just love to write about movie reviews.
Lost in Translation was up first and i watched it in my mum's room. Switched on the air-con and occasionally tuning the tv volume beacause sometimes i cant hear the actors speaking and sometimes the karaoke sets in the movie is too loud. alrite, Lost in Translation is about a guy whos facing his mid-life crisis and is a movie star doing a 2 million dollar endorsement fee'd advert in japan, promoting a local brand wisky.
he stones arnd in his hotel room at night and decides to go to the hotel bar fer a drink. he meets this girl, whos in the same situation as he is in(Lost in translation), not literally translating language kinda translation, but more of what their purpose in life and sorts. so they clicked and they talk and they talked and they do stupid things and talked and do more stupid things.
hmmmm simply put it as, a middle-aged man and a lonely girl on an amazing adventure to waste time. hahaha. ok lar maybe i didn't really watched it with my full attention, but overall its really nice and funny. 4/5 stars. cheers
wokay, then sis, mum and her friend and i watched memoirs of a geisha. very nice i must say. i just love films which are set in the traditional samurai/geisha kinda era. its just so cool. thinks zatoichi. now i know why i like japanese animes and films about ninjas, samurais, geishas, shinigamis blabla and other jap traditional characters.
really i think that if theres a film about someone who lived through, maybe the japanese occupation period set in singapore, it'd be cool huh. maybe it'd be named, memoirs of a japanese-occupation-survivor. haha i wish theres such a film. so that we could show the world our culture. maybe not the japanese occupation but hmmm, cant think of any at the moment. but u know what i mean.
anw i give geisha 4/5 out of 5. brilliant film.
so i've seen through japan from the traditoinal geishas wearing lovely kimonos and putting on crazily think makeup, to crazy japanese people who parties all day and night. But one thing i realised, japanese people are very hospitable, thats at least what i can see from the movies.
ok long entry.
sayonara then