Japanese Movies/Discussion/Recommendations

Tu_triky wrote:Cool, man. I hope you enjoy it. :victory:

I just anna see Higashiyama whip out those golden hashi. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
I just wanna see Higashiyama whip out those golden hashi. :mrgreen:

Hehe. Their glimmering surface is a sight to behold. ;)

DVD Beaver review of Summer Wars on Blu-ray: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews53/summer_wars_blu-ray.htm

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EstherM

Re: "Confessions".

I am a Matsu Takako fan. And a Kimura Yoshino fan, and I'd been planning on watching the movie... until I read the synopsis. After that I decided to just give it a pass and watch the grass grow.

But you got me thinking about it again, so I figured... if it could keep you away from the laundry... maybe the grass could get along without me for a bit.

The long and the short is... What an nteresting movie! And I hesitate to say it, because there weren't a lot of laughs in it, but... What a good movie!

Like everyone who goes to movies, or watches tv, I've seen a million "revenge" based stories. But this was an original, and once I started I couldn't stop.

Thanks for mentioning it.

bmwracer wrote:DVD Beaver review of Summer Wars on Blu-ray: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews53/summer_wars_blu-ray.htm

Another great review. This movie is just thoroughly entertaining.

Tu_triky wrote:Another great review. This movie is just thoroughly entertaining.

For anime, I don't know if having it on Blu-Ray buys you any marked improvement...

Even for live action, you really need some rather high-end equipment to see a real Blu-Ray to DVD difference... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
For anime, I don't know if having it on Blu-Ray buys you any marked improvement...

Even for live action, you really need some rather high-end equipment to see a real Blu-Ray to DVD difference... :sweat:

Indeed. I guess you'd have to be a serious audio/videophile with some a small fortune invested in your home theater equipment.

I have a very basic setup....flat panel LED LCD, blu-ray player with a sound bar and powered subwoofer. It suits me well enough. The gyabo's and mukyaa's come across vividly enough. ;)

Tu_triky wrote:Indeed. I guess you'd have to be a serious audio/videophile with some a small fortune invested in your home theater equipment.

I have a very basic setup....flat panel LED LCD, blu-ray player with a sound bar and powered subwoofer. It suits me well enough. The gyabo's and mukyaa's come across vividly enough. ;)

Wow, you upgraded to a Blu-Ray, huh?

Oppo?

Geezer wrote:EstherM

Re: "Confessions".

I am a Matsu Takako fan. And a Kimura Yoshino fan, and I'd been planning on watching the movie... until I read the synopsis. After that I decided to just give it a pass and watch the grass grow.

But you got me thinking about it again, so I figured... if it could keep you away from the laundry... maybe the grass could get along without me for a bit.

The long and the short is... What an nteresting movie! And I hesitate to say it, because there weren't a lot of laughs in it, but... What a good movie!

Like everyone who goes to movies, or watches tv, I've seen a million "revenge" based stories. But this was an original, and once I started I couldn't stop.

Thanks for mentioning it.

glad you went ahead and watch it after all. I agree with you too. Definitely an original. It's sooo good. Just when i thought it ended with the milk cartons, more and more just keep coming. The end was fabulous.all the slow motion scenes were perfect too. I hope it'll win some awards.

bmwracer wrote:
Wow, you upgraded to a Blu-Ray, huh?

Well I ended up doing so redundantly. When I bought a new panel to replace a CRT set that was actually damaged by carpet cleaning morons <don't ask> I decided to get a new BD player at the same time since the new TV was an HD set. Didn't forsee buying a PS3, which also has a BD player.

Oppo?

Nah, I wish! Those cost a mint. Just a Samsung, same brand as the panel. At least I can take advantage of high definition Japanese drama and film files, as with the Nodame Cantabile films.

Tu_triky wrote:Nah, I wish! Those cost a mint. Just a Samsung, same brand as the panel. At least I can take advantage of high definition Japanese drama and film files, as with the Nodame Cantabile films.

Yeah, the Oppo is a pricey unit... Around $600, I think.

I'm dating myself (yet again), but I remember paying $800+ for my first VCR. :crazy:

bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, the Oppo is a pricey unit... Around $600, I think.

I'm dating myself (yet again), but I remember paying $800+ for my first VCR. :crazy:

Early adopters pay a grip for sure. :sweat:

Tu_triky wrote:Early adopters pay a grip for sure. :sweat:

Adopters = suckers. :beaten: :banghead:

OT: Hmm, I didn't realize that The Girl Who Leapt Through Time won the Oscar for Best Animated Film in 2007... :victory: :applaud:

bmwracer wrote:
Adopters = suckers. :beaten: :banghead:

OT: Hmm, I didn't realize that The Girl Who Leapt Through Time won the Oscar for Best Animated Film in 2007... :victory: :applaud:

Yeah. As discussed, that's a good film as well.

Tu_triky wrote:Yeah. As discussed, that's a good film as well.

Same director, too, I believe. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
Same director, too, I believe. :victory:

Yes, indeed. Those were the two best theatrically released anime in recent memory.

Ashita no Joe Ashita no Joe Ashita no Joe... :fingerscrossed: When would it be released outside Japan.....

For Nakatani Miki fans at ADC.....

Golden Torrent too!

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Synopsis:
Underneath the veneer of orderly lives, frozen smiles and awkward averted glances, SWEET LITTLE LIES is a cold-as-steel clinical study of a couple. Married for three years, the couple keeps up the apparently tender rituals of newlyweds, but all is not as bright and beautiful as it would seem. Miki Nakatani, gthe best Japanese actress of her generationh (Mark Schilling, Japan Times) plays the emotionally and sexually starved wife in Hitoshi Yazakifs anti-melodramatic chronicle of the disintegration of a marriage. Even the most seasoned viewers will be struck by the menacing calm of Yazakifs compositions, and his unveiling of lives made from lies.

Just finished watching The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (finally! :ashamed:)... Really really good. :applaud:

What I really like about Japanese animated films is that their stories/plots don't pander to kids and have novel, intelligent ideas. :victory: :applaud:

American animated films is typically (mostly?) wise-cracking talking animals or similar BS... :bleh:

The last American animated film that had any intelligence and/or thought to it was probably Fantasia in 1940....

bmwracer wrote:Adopters = suckers. :beaten: :banghead:

OT: Hmm, I didn't realize that The Girl Who Leapt Through Time won the Oscar for Best Animated Film in 2007... :victory: :applaud:

Ooops, I misread that: it won the 2007 Japanese Academy Award for Best Animated Film. :sweat: