this entry is all about robots. Sort of.

[bluelovesorange]

I was watching Asahi TV yesterday afternoon - or it could have been NTV, I forget which channel precisely (considering my lack of nihongo skillz and all) but it was a preview show for upcoming films, and I saw the trailer for My Girlfriend is A Cyborg (and I always feel like there should be a parenthetical remark immediately after - 'and it's okay') and I don't know if it's just the mood I've been in lately, but it looked quite funny and something I would really like to watch. Ayase Haruka and Koide Keisuke are the stars.

Yes, it's from the South Korean director responsible for My Sassy Girl, but it's an all Japanese film. There's been quite a lot of Japanese/Other Asian Countries collaborations, like the upcoming Stephen Chow produced/officially blessed Shaolin Girl, which is not a true sequel to Shaolin Soccer (though I preferred Kung Fu Hustle) starring Kou Shibasaki.

Yesterday was a lovely, lazy day. I watched Oceans' 12 and after eating a really good plate of BBQ from Lucilles, fell asleep before starting 3 Times, a film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. I'll probably watch it again today, followed by a chaser of 2046 (I first saw it in London, three years ago, but I was sick from Scottish flu at the time, so a lot of my memories of that film are formed by seeing clips of it on Youtube, but now I finally own it.) And the soundtrack is fantastic, as they tend to be for Wong Kar Wai's films.

ETA: this is hilarious, in true WTH, Japan way:

American/current it girl in Japan Leah Dizon being taught guitar by Marty Friedman (former Megadeath guitarist, now ex-pat living in Tokyo)

JAY CHOU. THEY NAME DROP JAY CHOU. Music is truly the universal thread! Jay Chou is COMING FOR YOU, Justin Timberlake. SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN.

Comments

[mango-cows.livejournal.com]

"It is the distant future...the year 2000..."

o____o

Ahaha, Cyborg-Girlfriend. I laughed at the bench scene. Well, it's better than being in love with something like...a toaster ..or a blender. How awkward would THAT be? After all, Japan is pretty ahead in things like technology and androids - so who knows? ;3

Shaolin Girl looks interesting, but I don't understand what's going on. XD

it's lacrosse and burning things. Two great

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

tastes that taste great together!

The bench scene made me crack up, like, a lot. I don't even know!

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

I saw the trailer for Shaolin Girl when I went to see Kurosagi. It looks like it'll be a fun movie.

oh lucky.

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

How was Kurosagi, by the way? I've heard mixed things, not all of them positive.

Re: oh lucky.

[mango-cows.livejournal.com]

Pretty much everything I've heard so far is negative. .___.

Re: oh lucky.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

It was a decent movie, though it could have been better (though maybe it will seem better once the subs are out and I can understand more of the actual plot). It was like a two hour episode from the drama with one main swindle and no resolution of the side issues that the fans are concerned with. They definitely focused on the swindling aspect of the plot rather than the relationship between Kurosaki and Tsurara. Those two only had two decent moments, and neither one of them were romantic in any way. There's also some kind of significance with Shakepeare's Julius Caesar and the game Othello.

Re: oh lucky.

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

I just found out that they only had two days of actual filming together. Way to milk the killer chemistry, Japan.

Oh well, the more I hear about it, the more I am convinced that they thought they had a strong enough plot to make a film franchise out of it or a platform for a second drama series.

Re: oh lucky.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

I know I missed a lot of the plot because of my limited knowledge of Japanese, and while I did enjoy watching the swindle unfold, I know I would have enjoyed it even more if it'd had focused more on the two of them and had come to a decent conclusion instead of leaving so many loose ends again.