Enna wrote:I watched Tada, Kimi Wo Aishiteru or "Heavenly Forest" last week and I loved it! I was hooked from the opening scene of an overhead shot of the Statue of Liberty. It had beautiful scenery of both NYC and Japan. Georgeous colors and textures in the forest scenes. Lovely music. Acting that perfectly captured the budding college friendships with warmth and humor. I particularly loved Tamaki Hiroshi's performance. Plus he is sooo easy on the eyes. I also enjoyed Miyazaki Aoi's acting as well. They were well paired together. This was a sweet, tender movie that held my attention from start to finish, and did not disappoint.
P.S. Thanks b-kun! :glomp:
Sure thing.
One of the best movies I've seen this year. :victory:
Saw Throne of Blood at the Samurai Film Festival last night. What a difference seeing it on the big screen makes! The two things that really came across for me were first, the enormity of that castle, what a huge set! I never noticed how big it was before. The other was Isuzu Yamada seemed so much more evil in the Lady MacBeth role. For some reason it hadn't made that big an impression when watching it on TV. Best $10 I've spent in a long time. :good:
gaijinmark wrote:Saw Throne of Blood at the Samurai Film Festival last night. What a difference seeing it on the big screen makes!
I was similarly blown away when I saw Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Spartacus on the big screen for the first time after initially viewing those movies on commercial TV and video. Great epic movies of those sort shown on a huge theater screen is a wonderful cinematic experience.
Throne of Blood contains one of the great death scenes ever filmed.
Yuko Takeuchi and Abe Hiroshi unite!
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Yuko Takeuchi to star in "Team Batista"
Mon, October 1, 2007 (10:27pm EDT)
Takeru Kaido's medical mystery novel "Team Batista no Eikou" is finally being turned into a movie. The book won the grand prize of the "Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Awards" in 2005, and its popularity resulted in roughly 25 movie studios and television networks fighting over adaptation rights. In the end, TBS won out, and is teaming with Toho to release a film on February 9 of next year.
The story revolves around a university hospital and a team of doctors specializing in the Batista procedure, an alternative to heart transplantation. The team has a 100% success rate until they perform three consecutive operations that result in the patient's death. An internal investigation begins to determine the reasons for the failures.
The protagonist of the novel is a male doctor in his forties, but TBS suggested replacing the character with a young female. As a result, Yuko Takeuchi now plays the lead as Taguchi, a doctor in charge of the investigation. She initially declares the incidents as accidental deaths, but an eccentric employee from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (played by Hiroshi Abe) suddenly appears and asserts that the deaths were actually murders. Together, the two continue to probe the matter.
Yoshihiro Nakamura is directing. Filming begins on the 7th.
I've just been watching some previews for Uchida Yuki's new movie, Welcome to the Quiet Room and I was wondering if anyone can read enough Japanese to let me know if this movie has been released, or if it's about to be released.
Geezer wrote:I've just been watching some previews for Uchida Yuki's new movie, Welcome to the Quiet Room and I was wondering if anyone can read enough Japanese to let me know if this movie has been released, or if it's about to be released.
From what I could tell, (and I'm just a dumb gaijin) looks like it will be released on 10/20. [/list:u] Edit: but hey, it's got Ryo so that should be worth the price of admission alone.[/list:u]
gaijinmark wrote: From what I could tell, (and I'm just a dumb gaijin) looks like it will be released on 10/20. [/list:u] Edit: but hey, it's got Ryo so that should be worth the price of admission alone.[/list:u]
Spoiler — click to revealthe story was nice. but to me, the whole thing was a total dissapointment. For a movie like this, the gun action sucks (but the bombs were pretty cool). There was always this chance where you can actually wipe out everyone and make some destruction but ended up just pointing the gun. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital has lots surveilance camera inside, but somehow they didn't spot Ryoko, and she looked like she didn't avoid the cameras. And the Japanese police has a biohazard weapon; an anthrax-like virus, and if the virus from one small tube spreads out, 80% of Tokyo's population can die. And guess what?
The japanese actually doesn't have enough serums prepared!!! only enough for 1 person + goverment leaders. I mean, if you wanna go to war with such weapon, you can at least save your own people.
The movie could've been more thrilling. And the puzzle wasn't as big as the one in the dorama. but you can't blame them, it's 100minutes against 11 episodes.
I like Shinohara Ryoko's acting in the dorama version better. in the movie, she was a bit stiff. She didn't show enough desperation as
she's supposed to at times. Still, i think she and Shiina Kippei were cool. But Eguchi Yusuke ruled the show. i like the music score too.
i hate it when it ends with a cliffhanger :beaten:
Thanks to shin2 I got to see Suo Masayuki's Sumo Do Sumo Don't (1992?) and I just realized I was smiling again as I typed out the title.
This one falls into what some are calling the Japanese feel good formula. You know, a group of unlikely participants band together (for some vague reason) to do something that they seemingly have no talent for.
"Swing Girls" modern day slacker girls getting together to learn how to play Big Band Swing.
"Hula Girls". The ladies, housewives and students, from a cold, bleak mining town, getting together to learn the Hula.
And in "Sumo Do Sumo Don't" a group of college students with no training, no background, and no real desire (at the beginning) join together to become the Sumo Club at their University, and after a month's training, they bond, learn, and triumph.
When it works, when the cast is good enough, the director good enough, the script acceptable, these movies are (IMO) wonderful.
Geezer wrote:Thanks to shin2 I got to see Suo Masayuki's Sumo Do Sumo Don't (1992?) and I just realized I was smiling again as I typed out the title.
This one falls into what some are calling the Japanese feel good formula. You know, a group of unlikely participants band together (for some vague reason) to do something that they seemingly have no talent for.
"Swing Girls" modern day slacker girls getting together to learn how to play Big Band Swing.
"Hula Girls". The ladies, housewives and students, from a cold, bleak mining town, getting together to learn the Hula.
And in "Sumo Do Sumo Don't" a group of college students with no training, no background, and no real desire (at the beginning) join together to become the Sumo Club at their University, and after a month's training, they bond, learn, and triumph.
When it works, when the cast is good enough, the director good enough, the script acceptable, these movies are (IMO) wonderful.
The three movies mentioned above are wonderful.
Don't forget "Drugstore Girl" where the old guys try to relive the virility of their youth through lacrosse.
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