Blog #8 My Sister`s Keeper

Hi again, everyone :) It`s my last blog so I want to write about an impressive movie which I watched recently. It is "My Sister`s Keeper". Have you heard of it? You can watch it in Chuo-to (6th floor).

Before I watched it, I thought it would be too merodramatic. But it wasn`t, more than merodramatic.

I want to talk about the story a bit but don`t tell you precisely and its crimax...haha
There was a happy-looking family in one town. There were two sisters in the film. The older one has heavy sick. The younger sister was "made" to be born to help the older sister. So she was often "used" for the older sister in medical scene, like being injected. Because of these hard time, she often had infection when she was younger. She got angry about her parents, especially at her mother, and hired a lawyer and went to court. She claimed that her parents ruined her life and hurt her so much.

But actually there was another reason in her mind.
She was really worried about her older sister. Their mother did never lose the older sister. So she "used" the younger sister to cure the heavy illness. The younger sister didn`t mind to be used but didn`t make older sister feel bad in her mind. So she didn`t want her mother to "make" the older sister live long. She knew how hard time the older sister had and wanted her to feel ease. So she was always ready for her sister`s death.
That`s why she went to court and tried to make her mother stop hard treatment for her older sister.

Ooh, I can`t tell you anymore :) You should watch it soon!! And let me know if you know some nice movies :)

Thank you everyone for a year!! It was really my pleasure to take film study class with you :) I hope to keep in touch with all of you :)

Asami

Blog #7 The idea of Christmas

 Happy New Year everyone! I`m so sorry I missed two blogs :( So I`m writing them now and will post my comment to your blogs soon!

 In last month, I got lots of presents and cards from my pen friends in all over the world. And of course, I talked about how to spend Christmas day with each of them. In these conversation, every one asked me whether we celebrate Christmas in Japan or not.

 I think it was a difficult question for Japanese people. One reason is that Christmas isn`t a holiday in Japan. Dec.25th is originally normal day here, not like European countries. The other reason is that most Japanese people aren`t Christian. So I didn`t know whether I could say to them that we "celebrate" Christmas.

 But you know, Christmas surely exists in Japan,too. But I think it`s for some fun like exchanging presents and eating gorgeous dinner.

 The most interesting thing I found out from my pen friends is that Christmas is a celebration and a holiday which should be spent with family for them. In Japan Christmas is a "day" for couple... haha
 My Italian friend told me that she definitely goes to church on Christmas day because of religious reason. For her, Christmas is surely "celebration" rather than something fun.

 What do you think in your opinion? If you foreign friends ask you this question, how do you answer?

Asami Okumura 

#8 The music festival "Countdown Japan 11-12"

    A happy new year, everyone !!

    The new year has already started!! What are you doing this year? I want to talk with many people and to try everything this year!! Talk a lot with me and tell me everything you know!!
    On New Year's Eve, I went to the music festival "Countdown Japan 11-12" in Makuhari Messe. Many Japanese bands I like played there. One handred fourteen thousand people had come for 4 days. I went there on only the latest day, but I danced all night and it was very fantastic! I danced a long time, so I felt nauseated. No sooner had this new year come than I vomited hahaha! I, however, kept dancing after that, because it was so happy that I couldn't stand dancing.
    I watched the bands, "Group Damashi-", "Zainichi Fank", "Capsule", "Urbangarde", "Your Song Is Good", and "Elephant Kashimashi". Do you know the bands? If you are interested in them, you should watch the music videos on Youtube.
    After the festival, I went to a public bath at 4 a.m. and I worked at The Meiji Shrine from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.! The schedule was hard and I was exhausted. I slept till noon on the next day. I sold written fortunes then and many foreign people asked me the meaning in English. I felt that studying English was very important in the modern life!!
   What were you doing on New Year's Eve and the beginning of the new year?

Hoh,

Blog#8 real steel

A happy new year! I watched “real steel” in January 1, 2012. I could watch it with ¥1,000, because everyone can watch movie with 1,000 in every first day. This movie is first one which I watched in 2012. Actually I wanted to watch “real steel” more early, but in the last December, I was too busy to go to a movie theater. I was glad to watch it before it finishes.

I think the story is very simple. The main characters fight the robot which is picked up from garbage, but I would like to tell the outline with a little more details.

The main character, Charlie, is a robot trainer who was a boxer but as the time is gone, robots fight instead of human boxer in order to show more violent fight. He was very lazy, and separate with his wife. One day his wife died, and he had to take care of his son, Max, who had lived with his mother before. At first, Charlie tried to ask the relatives, and they wanted Max. However, after Charlie considered his problem about money lack, he succeeded to sell Max after summer vacation. Max was very interested in robot fight, and he went the game with his father. One day they found a very old robot. Charlie tried to sell it, but Max disagreed to sell it. When they fight a game with the robot, they understood the possibility of strength. They won games successively, and at last they fight the strongest robot in the world with the old robot.   

I like this movie. First interesting point is the cool robots. The scenes where robots fight are very powerful, and made me excited. The robot which remodeled in Japan came on, and it looks very funny.    

Second interesting point is love between father and son. At first Charlie tried to sell Max, but as they were fighting games cooperating each other, they were bonding their mind each other. 

I recommend this movie if you have not watch it yet.

I want to watch many movie in 2012!

Motoki