Funky Forest: The First Contact. (2005)

This is a bizarre movie. Everything in this movie is surreal. Nothing makes any sense whatsoever.
Definitely one of the weirdest movies that I have ever watched.
However, it is enjoyable to watch something out of ordinary like this.
Overall 5.5/10.

Try to make sense of what's going on in this pic.

No caption can explain this.

Pictures from Google.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

1. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (live-action movie). (2010)

I like it so much. This movie is based on a novel of the same title (if I'm not mistaken).
It's about a girl, Akari Yoshiyama, who leaps through time (by drinking a potion) to meet her mother's friend in 1974.
The main actor and actress are so cute together.
When the girl's memory is erased (so that she don't remember her visit to the past), I cried a bit.
Although the plot is questionable, but it is still a great movie to watch.
Overall 9/10.

Riisa Naka

Falling for a guy in the past.

2. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (animated movie). (2006)

I watched this award winning movie quite sometimes ago.

Although it has the same title, but this movies' plot is nothing like the novel or the live-action movie.

In fact, it is supposed to be the sequel(?) to the novel.

The story is about a girl, Makoto Konno, who gains the ability to travel through time after she discovered a time leaping device.

The voice actress for Makoto Konno is Riisa Naka, the lead actress in the live-action movie.

Personally, I prefer the live-action movie than the animated movie.

Overall, 6/10.

Pictures from Google.

Death Game Park (2010)

Not bad at all. Seeing all the young actors, I feel so old... haha...
The story is about a group of prisoners who are forced to play a game,
in which, if they fail to complete a certain task, they'll die.
Pretty much like Saw, right. Ternganga-nganga aku tengok.
I am satisfied with the movie; the settings, costumes, props, and choreography are nicely done.
However, the ending is a bit loose and unclear. Guess it is up to the viewers to interpret it.
Overall, 8/10.

Pictures from Google.

Hujan Sakura aka Sakura no Ame aka Sakura Rain

Again, finding a good song really made my day.
In 2009, this song is one of the most popular graduation songs in Japan.
Sakura no Ame by absorb(?).
Too bad the band that sings this song was currently disbanded.

Sakura in Washington DC during the Cherry Blossom Festival. I really wanna see Sakura in Japan =)

Photo: Credit to my friend, Myza.

Hotaru no Hikari

I watched Hotaru no Hikari back in 2007, and I found it very interesting and funny.
While watching the drama, someone told me, "You are a lot like Ayase Haruka".
I thought, 'No way I am that kawaii'.
I even searched for Ayase Haruka's pictures to see which part of my face that resembles her.

Hotaru no Hikari 2 was released in 2010. I don't have time to watch it yet. So far, the first two episodes that I watched are good. While watching the second season of this drama, it came to my sense what that person meant when she said that I am a lot like Ayase Haruka. It turned out, she was referring to the character that Ayase plays in the drama, Hotaru Amemiya.

So, I am a himono-onna ne. Can't do anything about it.

Hotaru no Hikari

Hotaru no Hikari 2

Ayase Haruka

Pictures from Google.

Koizora The Movie (2007)

This movie is so full of dramas. Can Mika's life be much more dramatic than that? Hahaha.
Anyway, I still love this movie. In fact, this is one of the movies that I didn't skip any part of it.

So many sweet scenes and dialogues that would make one goes "awwww".

Although I don't really like the first half of this movie (yes, I am quite conservative), but I think that is what really happens in our society, isn't it?

Plus, Mika is so lucky to have two sweet guys that love her so much.

Overall, 9/10 from me.

Aragaki Yui

Miura Haruma

Pictures from Google.

The Little Match Girl

Is it just me, or is this year's winter colder than ever? Ok, maybe it's just me.

Walking back home from class on a windy and snowy night, I remembered a story that I read when I was little, The Little Match Girl.

 pictures from Google

Mind Your Language

Mind Your Language (1977-1986)

Found this series on YouTube.

This British comedy series is about an English teacher (Mr. Brown) who has to teach a bunch of foreigner. It's funny, hilarious, awesome, enjoyable, cute, and addictive.
There is no single episode that I don't like.
Too bad the show was ended due to it being not "politically correct".

Unstoppable (2010)

I was 20 minutes late and the person who sold the ticket at the cinema let me see the movie for free (since the movie had already ran for 20 minutes). Weird.
The movie is about a giant train that due to some technical errors, moves on its own at a speed that is too fast to be stopped, hence the title.

To make matter worse, the train is carrying chemical that is dangerous to the population (cliche huh).

Coming to the rescue is a train engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Christ Pine).

What I like about this movie?

The noise and the explosion of course. What else do you expect from an action thriller film?
And, don't you wish you were in the devil train, running 74 mph? (this is coming from a person who think 100 times before taking a roller coaster ride)
Plus, the movie takes place in Pennsylvania =)
Denzel and Christ's acting were great too.

Overall I'll give it a 7/10 for lack of originality.

Hanamizuki

I'm looking forward to watching this movie. It was released on August in Japan.
Although I'm not a big fan of this genre (slow romance), but I'll watch it for the sake of Aragaki Yui.
Isn't she cute? Her smile is so bright ne. Plus Ikuta Toma is in the movie as well.
So yeah, more reasons to watch it.

http://aragaki-yui.blogspot.com

Agaraki Yui

Ikuta Toma

December

It's December FTW. December!!!


1 week to go before my final exam week.
Of the 5 subjects that I take this semester, I think that so far I did pretty well in 4 of the subjects.
However, I have a VERY bad feeling about the other subject. I hope everything goes well.


It's snowing finally. Pretty late considering that the first snow fell on October/November on the previous years.


Ja.

 

Cute Maru holding a giant frog. Watch here