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Any of you guys seen Rainbow Song?

From the NY Times:

Rainbow Song
aka Niji No Megami
2006-Japan

PLOT DESCRIPTION
A young man wishes against all hopes for a second chance at love in this romantic drama from Japan. Tomoya Kishida (Hayato Ichihara) is a film student with dreams of one day becoming an important director. While at school, he meets pretty Aoi Sato (Juri Ueno), and the two become fast friends. However, while he lacks the nerve to tell her, before long Tomoya has fallen in love with Aoi. While they remain best friends, after graduating, Tomoya gets a job as an assistant on a film set, while Aoi heads off to visit California. Shortly after sending a picture of a rainbow to Aoi's cell phone, Tomoya receives the shocking news that her flight has crashed and she has died. As he arranges to fly to California and arrange for Aoi's funeral, Tomoya begins having persistent daydreams about the love affair he wanted but never had with her. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Looks like a pretty heartbreaking movie...

I only use EMule because it has things you can't get elsewhere...

Speaking of which, any movie recommendadtions to download now Casshern is done?

Anime Dad wrote:I only use EMule because it has things you can't get elsewhere...

Same here.



"In Case of Desperation, Break Glass and Use eMule." :hehe:

Anime Dad wrote:I only use EMule because it has things you can't get elsewhere...

Speaking of which, any movie recommendadtions to download now Casshern is done?

Hula Girl

Man, my emule adventures = the worst. After like 20hours downloading myratio was 10:1 (2gigs up, only 200mb down)

what really annoys me is the way it works? when you're [On queue] you wait for hours, and when it's finally your turn it either says, asking > checking > queue full (WTF?!) > on queue. what the heck are you in queue for ??
that happened soo many times. and when it does start downloading it stops after a few mins and back in the queue again :shakehead:

After reading up I figured a way out to import my incomplete torrent file (using MorphXT) which was at 91%, but only 500mb out of 1.4gig of that data was approved. Left my comp on overnight and went to work - finally the cd1 is finished.

But meanwhile I had posted a request on the newsgroups, and to my surprise someone filled my request XD all that frustration nearly for nothing :beaten: guess posting to NG's pays off now :hehe:

runpup wrote:

Hula Girl

I already have that :) From EMule also :) Thanks anyway.

Any other suggestions?

Anime Dad wrote:I already have that :) From EMule also :) Thanks anyway.

Any other suggestions?

Summer Time Machine Blues. :thumbsup:

OK cool. *adds to list*

Because it takes so long, I like to have a few going...

hey all,
im here with another question, sorry!

has anyone seen "Heaven's Bookstore - The Light of Love" from 2004? ^^
any info on it? xDDD

bmwracer wrote:Any of you guys seen Rainbow Song?

From the NY Times:

Rainbow Song
aka Niji No Megami
2006-Japan

PLOT DESCRIPTION
A young man wishes against all hopes for a second chance at love in this romantic drama from Japan. Tomoya Kishida (Hayato Ichihara) is a film student with dreams of one day becoming an important director. While at school, he meets pretty Aoi Sato (Juri Ueno), and the two become fast friends. However, while he lacks the nerve to tell her, before long Tomoya has fallen in love with Aoi. While they remain best friends, after graduating, Tomoya gets a job as an assistant on a film set, while Aoi heads off to visit California. Shortly after sending a picture of a rainbow to Aoi's cell phone, Tomoya receives the shocking news that her flight has crashed and she has died. As he arranges to fly to California and arrange for Aoi's funeral, Tomoya begins having persistent daydreams about the love affair he wanted but never had with her. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Looks like a pretty heartbreaking movie...

Anyone? :puppydog:

I haven't seen Rainbow Song, plot sounds interesting though. Somewhat like Itoshi Kimi's opening?

last Japanese movie I saw was Udon, as usual with 'food' themed shows it was really enjoyable to watch and makes you feel hungry :beaten:

sawadasmile wrote:hey all,
im here with another question, sorry!

has anyone seen "Heaven's Bookstore - The Light of Love" from 2004? ^^
any info on it? xDDD

Oooh, that's the one with Yuko Takeuchi in it - also called Tengoku no Honya - Koibi. I have it downloaded but not watched yet. If you go back a few pages in this thread, someone said it was quite good - I think.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423360/

Terryb wrote:I haven't seen Rainbow Song, plot sounds interesting though. Somewhat like Itoshi Kimi's opening?

I'm not familiar with that. :sweat:

last Japanese movie I saw was Udon, as usual with 'food' themed shows it was really enjoyable to watch and makes you feel hungry :beaten:

I just finished downloading that earlier in the day... I'll watch it once I get it hardsubbed. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
Summer Time Machine Blues. :thumbsup:

Downloading!

Anime Dad wrote:Downloading!

Note: you have to really pay attention while watching this film... And you'll probably have to watch it multiple times to pick up all the nuances.

But it's a fun film. :victory:

I watched Udon last night and now I'm craving udon. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Note: you have to really pay attention while watching this film... And you'll probably have to watch it multiple times to pick up all the nuances.

But it's a fun film. :victory:

I'll try and remember that. It's VERY slow (as usual), so it's probably gonna be weeks before I see it. :sweat:

Coming in June from Criterion/Eclipse:

Late Ozu

Five-Disc Set Includes:

Early Spring
1956
145 min
Black & White
1.33:1
Mono
In Japanese with optional English subtitles


Tokyo Twilight
1957
141 min
Black & White
1.33:1
Mono
In Japanese with optional English subtitles


Equinox Flower
1958
118 min
Color
1.33:1
Mono
In Japanese with optional English subtitles


Late Autumn
1960
129 min
Color
1.33:1
Mono
In Japanese with optional English subtitles


The End of Summer
1961
103 Min
Color
1.33:1
Mono
In Japanese with optional English subtitles

so, I heard you guys talking about eMule, and I want to try it out too.

But, ........... it's not free????

I thought it was free, I used eMule about 3 years ago, and I remember I didn't have to pay anything?
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anyone of you know how to get the sub for "Turtles swim faster than expected"???
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EDIT: nevermind, just some bastard try to steal money, I went to the RIGHT website and it's free.

Tulipsuki wrote:-----------------------
anyone of you know how to get the sub for "Turtles swim faster than expected"???
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There currently are no English subs for Kame Wa Igai to Hayaku Oyogu as far as I know.