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My Darling is a Foreigner

March 1, 2010 at 11:34 am | Posted in J-Movie | 25 Comments
Tags: Inoue Mao, J-Movie, manga, My Darling is a Foreigner

Can’t wait to watch! It’s going to be shown on movie theaters in Japan on April 2010! Hope it will be subbed soon after!

I’ve seen the trailer and it seemed very comical, humorous, and light-hearted. Mao Inoue and Jonathan Sherr play the lead role of this movie. It is based on the original manga Darling wa Gaikokujin, which is about the mangaka Saori Oguri and husband Tony Laszlo.

japantoday.com

TOKYO — Actress Mao Inoue, 23, and actor Jonathan Sherr, 35, who play the role of girlfriend and boyfriend in “My Darling Is a Foreigner,” attended a preview of their film this week, along with author of the original comic series Saori Oguri, 43, and her American husband Tony Laszlo, 49.

Sherr, who first met Oguri while teaching at an English conversation school five years ago, plays the role of Tony – a linguist who comes to Japan and begins a relationship with Inoue’s character Saori – a comic book artist who can’t speak English and whose parents are opposed to them getting married.

It seems like a nice story isn’t it? I look forward to this unique movie. Also, Mao is in it!

Note: Trailers are uploaded in youtube.com

Current Mood: frustrated

TAIYOU NO UTA (Song of the Sun)

January 28, 2010 at 1:32 am | Posted in J-Movie, J-Pop/J-Music | 5 Comments
Tags: J-Movie, Taiyou no Uta, Tsukamoto Takashi, YUI

I just watched a very inspiring and emotional movie called Song of the Sun or TAIYOU NO UTA starring YUI (singer) and Oguri Shun’s real-life best friend, Takashi Tsukamoto. It is also known as Midnight Sun.

I tell you, it’s a must-watch. It was an entry in the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. YUI won a Best Newcomer award with this movie which featured three of her great songs: Good-bye Days (theme song), It’s Happy Line, and Skyline.

I won’t make any reviews for now. But I’ll give the summary and details. Douzo!

From Wikipedia (summary and pictures):

Kaoru Amane (雨音薫 Amane Kaoru), a 16 year old girl who has the rare skin condition xeroderma pigmentosum (XP, info here), a disease that makes the ultraviolet radiation of sunlight potentially lethal to her. Kaoru is out almost every night playing and singing in front of the station. By day she sleeps, but every morning she sits by the window of her room to watch a young surfer, Kōji Fujishiro (藤代孝治 Fujishiro Kōji), played by Takashi Tsukamoto, who usually waits by a bus stop for his friends before they go surfing each morning.

One day, she introduces herself to him and becomes friends, without letting him know about her illness. Can her feelings and songs reach him? What will he think of her illness if he finds out?

That’s all for now. I gotta say that I love the chemistry between the two. I’ve been crying since the middle part of the movie, and if not because of YUI or his dad it was Takashi. His character is an understandable and sympathetic one. He is usually the one who leads the characters in the movie.

Current Music: Good-bye Days and Tomorrow’s Way by YUI