Tokyo Oasis

Tokyo Oasis

Monday, 24 October 2011

www.tokyo-oasis-movie.com
Tokyo Oasis released last weekend in Tokyo is another film made by the same production team of Kamome Diner, Megane, Pool and Mother Water (but not the same director who directed Kamome Diner). In the previous works it was all filmed somewhere other than Tokyo: Helsinki, Yoron Island, Changmai and Kyoto, but this time as you can all probably guess it was filmed in Tokyo. It's about lives and the relationships with other people of the Tokyoites which anyone who lives in this city may be able to relate themselves to. I still haven't seen it so there is not much more I can say here now but hope it's good!

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ノルウェイの森 (Noruwei no Mori) - Norwegian Wood

ノルウェイの森 (Noruwei no Mori) - Norwegian Wood

Thursday, 16 December 2010

The movie Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no Mori), yes the movie based on Haruki Murakami's novel has finally been released in Japan and yes I've seen it. As a fan of both Haruki Murakami and the Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, I had waited for so long to see it since hearing about this movie having started to be filmed. It.was.beautiful. It is a kind of movie that is best seen at the theatre screen. I guess you could enjoy it even without having read the novel, but you'd enjoy it a lot more if you've read it (and if you've read it again before seeing the movie). So do start reading it again if you think you will go see the film!!

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TOILET トイレット

TOILET トイレット

Thursday, 2 September 2010

You might have thought what a funny title for a blog post, but it is actually the title of a new movie that came out last week in Tokyo which I went to see with Hello Sandwich in Ginza yesterday. TOILET is a new film directed by Naoko Ogino after Kamome Shokudo (Kamome Diner) and Megane -via make it easy- (Glasses).

It was witty, funny, yummy (yes, like the other 2 movies), cute, heart-warming and charming! TOILET was filmed in Toronto, Canada (though the story is set in somewhere in the US) and all the dialogue is in English so many of you should be able to enjoy it without having have to read subtitles :)

Here is the trailer of the movie, I think you like it!

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Japan seen through Wim Wenders eyes.

Japan seen through Wim Wenders eyes.

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Wim Wenders is one of my favourite film directors. He's German and apparently he loves Japan, he loves Yasujiro Ozu. "Journey to Onomichi" was the title of a photography exhibition Wenders had in Tokyo back in 2006 showing what he and his wife photographed in and around Onomichi in 2005.

Onomichi is a small fishing town in west Japan where "Tokyo Story" was filmed - a masterpiece of Ozu from 1953. (Yes if you've seen the film, that is where the parents lived.) Ozu admirer Wenders took a journey from Tokyo to Onomichi and took all the photographs while staying there for one week. And this book "Journey to Onomichi" just came out recently and it's super! You feel a little bit of Ozu and quite bit of Wenders' world in this whole book I never seem to get bored looking at it over and over!

Now this makes me want to see "Tokyo Story" again (I first saw it when I was about 21 and my friends made faces, he's not pupular among young Japanese people I think he's more appreciated outside Japan), must find where I put the dvd. Also do check out "Tokyo-Ga" filmed by Wenders in 1985 as a tribute to Ozu if you're interested.

　

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Tony Takitani

Tony Takitani

Thursday, 27 August 2009

If you are a fan of Haruki Murakami, Tony Takitani is a must-see film. It's one of a very rare films that is based on Murakami's story. (I actually don't know any other ones except the coming Norwegian Wood by Tran Anh Hung.) And it's one of my favourite Japanese films!

Though Tony Takitani doesn't have such a big recognition even in Japan, it was shown at film festivals all over the world and it received many awards. It is really beautiful and the mood it has is airy and dreamy with the music by Ryuichi Sakamoto working perfectly well. More than anything, it is so well made that the feel of the original Murakami's story/his world is right there in the entire film as the moving images. It is amazing! Apparenty Tony Takitani is in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman in the English version book. So read the story (it's a short story, easy to read!) and then see the film is my recommendation.

Take a peek at this official US trailer:

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