Haikei chichiue sama Ep 1

Jan 13, 2007
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every morning in calmly Tokyo, Sagurazaka. Tawara ippei(Ninomiya Kazunari) drive for Komiya Ryuji （Umemiya Tstsuo）and Sakashita Tamotsu（Takahashi Tatsumi） to Tsukiji market. Ryuji choose the ingredient in such noisy place, Tamotsu take a note while Ippei come along eagerly making a plan of the food they'll work for today. And this is the beginning of the day for 「Sakashita」 an old-established Japanese restaurant in Sagurazaka

In the kitchen,while Ippei and Tamotsu are being worked quietly by Ryuji's order 、Sakashita Ritsuko (Kishimoto Kayoko) A young mistress inform that a new probationary chef will come today. Ritsuko said to Sakashita Yumeko （Yachigusa Kaoru）, an old mistress, it's ok for him coming by himself because she gave a map to the new guy. Yumeko is the one who beg for that new guy coming to learn here when the time has come, Nowaday, the real power of "Sakashita" is in her hand properly

After a while, Tahara Yukino (Takashima Reiko), Ippei mother who works at "Yukino" a near bar has come to make a salutation to Yumeko in the morning. They talk about Kumasawa Kiyojiro（Kobayashi 桂樹）,the retired great monster of the political world who is very important to "Sakashita" and Yumeko with concerning. She don't want Ritsuko knowing this so she beg Yukino to tell no one.

At noon, the senior in Sagurazaka have a meeting at "Sakashita" among the pine. They're all against the construction company which want to build a high mansion. Yumeko asks the arbitration to Kumazawa but he gave only ambiguously word. After a busy noon, Ritsuko call to ask Ippei who went to coin laundry to pick up the new guy who lost his way, His name is Nakagawa Tokio（Yokoyama Yuu). He start washing in the kitchen that evening. After been busy working day, Ippei introduce Eri (Saki Fukuda) Tamotsu and Ritsuko daugther to Tokio who became excited with her cuteness.

In the same time, Ryuji is called to Yumeko's room. She tell him the fact that the customer from East construction company who come to “Sakashita” recently are the mastermind of the mansion and Ritsuko is hiding her plan to make "Shin Sakashita" (New Sakashita). The fact that Kumazawa can't live so longer has reveal, Ryuji receive a call from Kumazawa secretary that he want to meet him secretly then he go to the hospital immediately. Kumazawa tell him about relation between Ritsuko and the East construction company and it might can't stop and Kumazawa want to retreat "Sasashita" as well, so he just answer it.

In the evening while Tamotsu and Ritsuko give a guidance to Tokio, Ippei got a call from Yukino saying she's waiting for him at "Roar". She tell him Ritsuko's plan that gonna make "Sakashita" in cricis and she made Ippei e-mail Yumeko secretly for evasion with his unwilling. So Ippei is in undertaking helplessly

The news about Kumazawa is broaden in TV. But no one knows about "Sakashita"'s crisis. At that time, Ippei meet a girl (Kuroki Meisa) who accidentally drop her apple box behind "Sakashita" so he help him picking it up. She thanks him in French. Ippei can't get her out of his mind completely

More prize on Letters

Jan 12, 2007
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Letters From Iwo Jima won "Best foreign movie" from Chicago Film Critics, Utah Film Critics, Kansas City Film Critics, The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, The Phoenix Film Critics Society (PFCS), National Board of Review, Los Angeles Critics Association,

Annie Schulhof, president of the National Board of Review commented that Letters from Iwo Jima is Eastwood's masterpiece. Se was quoted as saying, "I was blown away by its delicacy, the poignancy of how he talks about war. I think it's also a searing condemnation of war. It was a unique view of the Japanese side of the battle. We don't always see that."

and won the 2nd from Southeastern Film Critics Association

also in top 10 best movie 2006 from The Phoenix Film Critics Society (PFCS) and AFI

more exam

Jan 10, 2007
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another exam today

prof. gave me blank papers for that

and more 2 hr to do

14 blank papers!!!!

Nino help!!

Letters From Iwo Jima Finally Gets A Bad Review

Jan 8, 2007
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loads of Iwo Jima post today LOL

as from the title, I found this interesting (cos it's against all the review I've read)

Let's see what they said

"Letters From Iwo Jima"

Clint Eastwood shows us the Battle of Iwo Jima from the viewpoint of the Japanese soldiers who fought and died there.

By Stephanie Zacharek

Clint Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima" springs from an admirable impulse: This companion piece to Eastwood's flawed yet complex "Flags of Our Fathers" sets out to tell the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima from the viewpoint of the Japanese soldiers who fought and died there. Eastwood, working from a script by Iris Yamashita (the story is by Yamashita and Paul Haggis), hopes to humanize these soldiers, showing them as inexperienced young men who loved their families, who were under orders from their superiors to fight viciously, and who were victims of a culture in which dying honorably was considered far more important than preserving life.

The impulse is commendable; the movie isn't. More than 6,000 American soldiers were killed during the 36-day battle; the number of Japanese troops killed was 21,000, which included most of the soldiers defending the island. The Japanese were notoriously vicious fighters. (Firsthand accounts from servicemen who fought in the Pacific arena, like William Manchester's memoir "Goodbye, Darkness," are numerous and remarkably consistent. And the idea of the Japanese as ruthless warriors isn't just a Western prejudice, as the Chinese who survived the Rape of Nanking would tell you.) There's no doubt that Americans at the time of World War II, including civilians, found it all too easy to caricature the Japanese as the "other." Even Bugs Bunny cartoons portrayed the Japanese as something other than human. As Paul Fussell wrote in his essay "Thank God for the Atom Bomb," "Among Americans it was widely held that the Japanese were really subhuman, little yellow beasts, and popular imagery depicted them as lice, rats, bats, vipers, dogs, and monkeys." He goes on to note that "some of the marines landing on Iwo Jima had 'Rodent Exterminator' written on their helmet covers." You could see characterizations like that in movies made during the war, like the 1943 "Bataan."

Taken from Salon

Actually it's not actually bad review. Zacharek just reveals the fact that Eastwood has chosen to noticeably dial down the documented viciousness of the Japanese soldiers. But,in addiction to what Eastwood said in so many interview we've seen, he said "It's not the real victory" or something like that, right?

So, it's depend on your view just go and watch it

Bad news again. Flags and Iwojima release date in Thai is now on hiatus -_-'' WTF Warner Thai!

new Letters trailer!!

Jan 8, 2007
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Accidentally found this, you might saw it already but I'm not

you know what is it?

it's another trailer!!!

2.29 mins trailer with a lot of Nino!! (Actually some scene is the same)

don't be hesitate. go and watch it!! XD

Letters From Iwo Jima Trailer

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Letters from Iwo Jima

Rated R
(for graphic war violence)

Genre:War, History

Theater release:
December 9, 2006 (US)
December 20, 2006 (US)
by Warner Bros. Pictures

Studio/Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures

Director
Clint Eastwood

Screenwriter(s)
Iris Yamashita

Runtime: 141 minutes

Cast:
Kazunari Ninomiya (Saigo), Ken Watanabe (Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi), Tsuyoshi Ihara (Baron Nishi), Ryo Kase (Shimizu), Shidou Nakamura (Lieutenant Ito), Nae (Hanako)

and I found that US official site has their own url finally

http://www.iwojimathemovie.com

btw I finished watching HYD2 and can't stop screaming when I saw DomyouJun!! and can't stop laughing or smile when I saw Hanazawa Rui.

I love Oguri Shun!!

Anyone watch Conan SP that he played as Kudou Shinichi?