Since I was still in high school, I fell in love with a kind of ball jointed doll.
They are now my lovely friends and curing little boy and girl.
Photos in side.
Monday 1 July 2013
JAPN 3320 Movie Journal: Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai is a story between farmers and samurais. It was in the end of
Sengoku era, some samurai lost their daimyo and they started to rob famers. The
story began with a village of farmers; they used rice to employ samurai to help
them beat the gangsters. The seven samurai fought for them and they won the
war.
Different from The Last Samurai, the samurais in this movie have to fight with other samurais. Besides the samurai spirits in this movie, there are still lots of issues that we can consider deeply. The justice in the movie is not as simple as people thought. Some audiences might confuse why Kanbei said the victors were belong to the farmers, the reasons were actually hide behind the treatments that farmers offered. The farmers provided their better rice to those samurais and ate worse rice in front of them in order to affect them, but they hid their wine and meat and other good food. When the war came, the unknown of their future made the farmers took out their food; in the situation, Kanbei was not angry about the farmers’ behaviors but accept it. After the war, some of the farmers dead, four samurais dead either; the farmers who lived were happy and they went back to their normal lives as fast as they could. How about the other samurais? They were left in the side and received no more attentions from the farmers because they do not need them anymore. It seemed like it was a good ending, but to those samurais who were dead in the war, what was the price for them?
JAPN 3320 Movie Journal: Confession
The scenes in Confessions
were shot in a secondary school. Everything starts from the resignation of the
teacher of 1-B. she thought that two of her students murdered her only daughter
and she planned to revenge.
Asian people might be familiar to the issues in the movie due to the
education systems. As people know, students have to take entrance exams to
entre any of the schools; also, decline birthrate made the amount of only child
increased, which made more parents gave all their loves to their only children.
One of the scenes is that the teacher standing in front of the class and told
them her daughter dead; sitting on their seats, the students only stopped for a
while and then keeps chatting with others after they heard that. The cruel and
indifference of these students are made by the society and their families. These
young people do not have to response to anything they did wrong because of the protection
from the law, their family, and school. They do not even think they were wrong
but shirk and escape with it. As the teacher said in the movie, “if you are
wrong, you are wrong,” and you have to pay. It is not the problem of age, but
the attitudes that people have to adjust.
JAPN 3320 Movie Journal: Always, Sanchome no Yuhi
In the movie Always, time
went back to the early Japan. What we can see are not only the developments in
Japan, but also the old, small village in Tokyo. The whole movie is made with different
smaller stories; they seem not connected, but all point out the theme of the
movie: whatever it may happen, just do it. The spirit from the main theme is
the changes from the world war two; even Japanese lost the war, the common people,
like Mr. Suzuki, might sometimes thought of the pains it brought, but the more
they got from it was the developments of their lives. The failure in the war
probably still burying in the mind of the Sanchome residents, but they walked
out and made a new living style. The residents in Sanchome could be thought as
the ideal people in Japan, they worked hard and care others; they help others
and know each other’s well. The idealized life plus the similar and natsukashi
old day scenes, this movie successfully directed a hard, but happy life, which
might be the dream of most of the Japanese people.
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