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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: Searching a film
I am looking for information for a cyberfriend on another site. Details about a film called 'Josee the tiger and the Fish'
I do not know anything about this except that it is a Japanese film and she liked it. Obviously no eng. subs.
It does sound intriguing. Maybe somone knows this film. ..maybe
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:22 am Post subject:
brad 2
Re: "Joze to Tora to Sakana Tachi" (2003) Driected by Inudou Isshin
It stars Tsumabuki Satoshi (Slow Dance, Orange Days) and Ikewaki Chizuru (Summer Snow)
Story of a philandering college student who becomes fascinated by a sharp mouthed disabled young woman who spends all of her time being pushed around in a baby carriage by and old woman.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Searching a film
brad2 wrote:
I am looking for information for a cyberfriend on another site. Details about a film called 'Josee the tiger and the Fish'
I do not know anything about this except that it is a Japanese film and she liked it. Obviously no eng. subs.
It does sound intriguing. Maybe somone knows this film. ..maybe
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: Re: Searching a film
brad2 wrote:
I am looking for information for a cyberfriend on another site. Details about a film called 'Josee the tiger and the Fish'
I do not know anything about this except that it is a Japanese film and she liked it. Obviously no eng. subs.
It does sound intriguing. Maybe somone knows this film. ..maybe
Peggy
There is, in fact, an edition produced in Korea that is Japanese, Korean, and English subbed:
I bought it because I'm a big fan of Ueno Juri's. As Geezer mentioned this movie is about the philandering hero, Tsumabuki Satoshi, meeting up with our herione suffering from cerebal palsy, Ikewaki Chizuru. Ueno Juri plays one of Tsumabuki's love interests.
This is a rather unusual topic and the movie itself is a little off-beat. The pace is not exactly breath-catching but everyone did a fine job to tell a coherent story.
Just watched Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean. I think the movie is good. They sort of combined a human technology (the submarine) with a human who possesses supernatural power (the witch) to make the sub a powerful weapon on the ocean. But some parts of the story is somewhat unnecessary, which I think they just made to make the movie a little longer . The CGIs were good too, especially the fight between the sub and the destroyers . The actors did a satisfying performance on this as well . The film also showed the patriotism and bravery of the characters, which is expected in a war film . And also, even though this is a war film, they didn't make their enemy (the Americans) look bad and evil on this film . _________________
Saw the movie Poppoya (Railroad Man) the other night. It was a 1999 film which won an incredible amount of Japanese Academy Awards including best picture, best director (Yasuo Furuhata), best actor (Ken Takakura), best actress (Shinobu Otake), best supporting actor (Nenji Kobayashi), best screenplay, and best cinematography. Pretty impressive, but honestly, I don't think the movie lives up to the quantity of awards it received. It's a good movie, not a great movie. Contemplative, sad, and yearnful, it's about a venerable railroad stationmaster who is on the verge of retirement. Through a series of flashbacks he relives key episodes in his adult life which leads him to experience feelings of regret because, while his professional life has been everything he had wanted, his personal life has not. Takakura, a cinema icon in Japan, plays his usual stoic loner character, both noble and inflexible. The setting is stunning--rural Hokkaido in the winter--and the cast (including a teenaged Ryoko Hirosue in a very pivotal role) is uniformly solid. I especially liked the film score, very reminiscient of Randy Newman's elegaic, nostalgic film music (think The Natural). Yet, despite all the positive things about this movie, it misses being excellent. This movie wants to be profoundly moving, but it falls short of that goal. Like I stated previously, a good movie, but not a great one.
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:36 am Post subject:
Iv3_imt wrote:
no they're movies
Haru no Yuki (Spring Snow) is played by Satoshi Tsumabuki and Yuko Takeuchi
and Touch is played by Masami Nagasawa
thanks for the OST btw
You're right. I have just finished "Touch" last night - I've never read the original manga so I don't understand all of subtleties of the movie. Nevertheless Nagasawa Masami fans will definitely not want to miss this.
Just finished watching The Suspect Muroi, the fourth movie in the Odoru Daisousasen franchise. While the first two movies involved the entire ensemble cast from the original series (a superb seminal dorama), the third movie (The Negotiator) and this one take one of the characters and develops a storyline involving just him. In this case, as the title implies, the main character is Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba), the jaw-clenching bureaucrat of the National Police agency whose support of the local police always gets him in hot water with his superiors. While there are only a couple of cameo appearances from other cast members of the original series (including an absolutely hilarious scene involving the three chiefs of the Wangan precinct), the movie retains many of the characteristics of the series from its humor to its criticism of self-serving bureaucrats. The cast is pretty good, including Rena Tanaka as a young lawyer who has to defend Muroi against police brutality charges and Sho Aikawa as a rebellious cop who tries to help Muroi. A solid, entertaining movie, but I wish the producers could somehow get the entire original cast back for another round of Bayside police hijinks.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject:
I saw two pretty good Japanese movies which are Kamikaze Girls which is a hilarious comedy about two girls,a gothic lolita fashion obssessed girl and a biker chick who become best friends and go on a journey. The second is Beat Takeshi's Dolls which is three stories of love that come together. it is based off of Bunraku story that is very sad and for some reason kind of scary.Both are very good but I think that Kamikaze Girls is better that dolls.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject:
Sorry but another pretty good movie that i saw was Shikoku which is a horror-romance story about Chiaki Kuriyama dies and her friend goes back to town where they used to play. Her ghost continues to haunt her when the friend falls in love with the boy who used to play with them also. Its a pretty good romance story but is pretty creepy and suspenseful in other parts. (Man Chiaki Kuriyama is freaky) I guess its pretty good movie.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:22 am Post subject:
Can someone recommend a really good horrormovie? I've already seen Ju-on 1 +2 Darkwater (the japanese, not the stupid american version) and some others but I don't remember the titels ^_^'
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject:
My wife and I just finished watching Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu. Without giving the plot away, it is a very thought-provoking movie. You also have to suspend reality to get through it, but all in all, I enjoyed it. I can see parts of myself in the main character, Takumi.
Oh, I think the composer also did the soundtrack for Sekai de Chuushin de.
*Addendum: It seems Jennifer Garner will be cast in the American remake of this film. I certainly hope it is not butchered.
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject:
dochira wrote:
My wife and I just finished watching Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu. Without giving the plot away, it is a very thought-provoking movie. You also have to suspend reality to get through it, but all in all, I enjoyed it. I can see parts of myself in the main character, Takumi.
Oh, I think the composer also did the soundtrack for Sekai de Chuushin de.
*Addendum: It seems Jennifer Garner will be cast in the American remake of this film. I certainly hope it is not butchered.
Yeah that movie had me crying like a little girl. It was good. I need to watch the show still though.
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject:
dochira wrote:
My wife and I just finished watching Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu. Without giving the plot away, it is a very thought-provoking movie. You also have to suspend reality to get through it, but all in all, I enjoyed it. I can see parts of myself in the main character, Takumi.
Oh, I think the composer also did the soundtrack for Sekai de Chuushin de.
*Addendum: It seems Jennifer Garner will be cast in the American remake of this film. I certainly hope it is not butchered.
Glad you two enjoyed it. It sounds like you have been watching the movie which, IMHO, is better than the drama. However the drama's soundtrack is more to my taste.
I really can't see Jennifer Garner in the role of a Caucasian Mio...
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject:
I posted this in the Maki and Koyuki threads because they both star in the film but I enjoyed watching it so much I thought I'd bring it to the attention of a wider audience....it's a great film and it shows the basic desires and resilence of the human condition in the face of life's struggles....
a very heartwarming affair....
Always San chome no Yuhi
This is supposed to be one of the best Japanese movies of the past year
2005 Japanese Academy Awards won by this film
Best Picture Always - Sunset on Third Street (Always - Sanchome no Yuhi)
Best Director Takashi Yamazaki
Best Screenplay Takashi Yamazaki, Ryota Furusawa
Best Leading Actor Hidetaka Yoshioka
Best Supporting Actor Shinichi Tsutsumi
Best Supporting Actress Hiroko Yakushimaru
Best Music Naoki Sato
Best Cinematography Kozo Shibasaki
Best Lighting Direction Kenichi Mizuno
Best Art Direction Anri Kamjo
Best Rookie of the Year Maki Horikita
Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by Norifumi Suzuki. Suzuki's hair-trigger temper is held somewhat in check by the motherly instincts of his wife, Tomoe, and his young son Ippei immediately bonds with Mutsuko as if she were his older sister. The Suzuki shop lies almost in the shadow of the Tokyo Tower as it rises steadily above the skyline during construction in 1958. Others in the neighborhood also are striving to better themselves as Japan continues to emerge from the shadow of war. Hiromi has just abandoned her shady life as a dancer to start a sake bar. Abandoned by his single mother, young Junnosuke is first handed off to Hiromi but she passes him off to Ryunosuke Chagawa, a struggling writer who runs a candy shop and only manages to sell adventure stories for boys as his serious novels continue to be rejected. Junnosuke is an avid reader of Chagawa's stories and begins to idolize him upon learning about his authorship. Junnosuke also writes stories, and makes friends with Ippei and others when they discover his tales that show Japan in the hi-tech future of the 21st century.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Maki Horikita .... Mutsuko Hoshino
Hidetaka Yoshioka .... Ryunosuke Chagawa
Shin'ichi Tsutsumi .... Norifumi Suzuki
Koyuki .... Hiromi Ishizaki
Hiroko Yakushimaru .... Tomoe Suzuki
Kazuki Koshimizu .... Ippei Suzuki
Kenta Suga .... Junnosuke Furuyuki
Masaya Takahashi .... Saburo
Kaga Mochimaru .... Yûichirô
Toru Masuoka .... The Theatre Manager
Takashi Matsuo .... The Realtor
Hiroshi Kamido .... The Postman
Hiroshi Kanbe .... The Postman
Magy .... The Butcher
Yôichi Nukumizu .... The Bicycle Shopkeeper
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. The CGIs were good too, especially the fight between the sub and the destroyers 
. The film also showed the patriotism and bravery of the characters, which is expected in a war film 
. And also, even though this is a war film, they didn't make their enemy (the Americans) look bad and evil on this film 
.
