Monday, February 19

3:08:00 PM

yesterday it was off with hiromi to a town near us called mauran.
to see a new film out in japan at the minute.
'dororo'

It was about an hours drive.
We listened to some gorgeous J-pop on the way.

I managed to sneak my camera into the cinema and take some shots of my favourite scenes.
This was one of them, and is a perfect example of what the japanese call 'chimoi-kawaii'.
Or 'disgustingly-cute'.

I won't tell you the whole plot, but I'll go through this scene with you. That big baby loooking thing you can see is made out of spirits of children. 20 children died in a fire, and left a whole village childless. The spirits of these children were confused and didn't know what to do or where to go. So they all merged together to make this one big spirit baby. Which at first frightened the life out of me, and I thought it was evil. But all it wanted to do was play,and had by far the cutest laugh in the world. In the end, the childrens spirits are set free when they help 'dororo' kill the demon who killed them in the fire. Was a very good film, even if i didn't understand most of it as it was in japanese. Oh, and my second favourite scene was a fight with a sakura demon. Very beautiful.


Oh, and the film also starred on of my favourite japanese actresses.
'Kou Shibasaki'.
Which made the film even better to watch.

She's a great actress.
She's got a film out in june where she plays a Maiko, or trainee geisha.
So me and hiromi made a deal to go and see that when its out.


Another volleyball competition in a few hours.
fingers crossed we'll win again.