a good film I have seen (Yuka Sakurai)

Hello. How are you doing? It is being very hot these days, but I still have emotion to watch films. In summer, I saw a lot of DVDs. Talking of a foreign film, I saw "Les Miserable", which it has many things to think about. It showed me how difficult it is to clarify good to bad. And I also saw Japanese movies such as "funewoamu" and "platinum data" which were both created from books. I liked these movies also.

 However, what I really want to introduce is a very old movie created by Akira Kurosawa "ikiru". I borrowed this DVD because of my sister's recommendation. This is a story of a man, working as a bureaucracy for 30 years, find himself to be a stomach cancer. Story starts  from his recognizing that illness. When he faced this problem, he first tried to play since he had been working too seriously, almost never played at night. However, he was not fulfilled from it. Then he decided what he will going to do before he dies. When people are faced with one's death, what will going to happen? What will you going to do if it occurred to you? His decision afterwards impressed me a lot. He did not cried until death. He quit recalling about the past thinking he had done nothing. The way he acted was great but his inner spirit was great enough to support it. The day he found out that he got a cancer was not a start of a strait way to his death but was a starting of  struggling vividly for the rest of his life. Can people really react like that?
 If it were me, I probably could not live like him. I will only think about my life, myself, and what is only related to me, yet he was different. He even thought of what he could do for people before he died, even though no one was understanding him nor praised him.
 Recently, I feel that what we do is important but not much. What is more important is why we do that, the emotion coming from your heart.The appearance or how you say is important may be, but not that important. Things without sincerity is nearly unnecessary, and we really have eyes to figure out weather it is true or not.
 We must think more. We should not do things because we are required to do. By seeing this movie, I figure out that we must find out the meaning of our life by ourselves. Nobody can tell you how your life should be. Even though we are healthy now, we cannot  know  the future. Furthermore, sooner or later, everyone dies. But I am not saying it in pity, but we must think about what our life is. What we want to do and what is really important for you. No one want to die with regret in their heart. We are the captain of our ship and we must take a steer of it. Fortunately, everyday is a chance. We have a possibility to change ourselves.

Blog #2: Wall Street (1987) Shinya Uchida

  Good morning, every guys. How is your super long-long-long summer vacation??? For me, this summer is last as the college student, but everyday can not make me enjoy. I just did my best doing a lot of part-time jobs during half of summer vacation  in order to make money for September.
So I will try to enjoy myself by doing new things in September. In september, I'm going to go to Karuizawa in Nagano by a rent car that I will drive and travel to Nagoya to meet prospective employees with whom I will join a company next year.

 Anyway, I watched an amazing movie,THE WALL STREAT, which is American drama movie so famous and popular. This film was made by William Oliver Stone in 1987.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/  ←  You can access to this site getting more info.


 Storyline is  Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), a junior stockbroker at Jackson Steinem & Co, want to be the richest man in the wall-streat. One day, Bud visits the office of Gordon, a merchant banker, as part of operating activities. However, a dealer under exclusive contract has already been in Gordon's company, and he does not show interest in Bub's information. And then, Bud decides to leak the inside information suddenly heard from his father who is the labor-union management of "Bluestar airline". As a result, Bub is able to get his big interest and succeeds in taking a trading-of-securities order from him. After that, his work is so fabulous and gets much money with Gordon's company but you have to remember that this trading between Bub and Gordon is "Insider trading".

 At the end of this film, the both were arrested because they are accused of the bad dealing with lots of money. With regard to Bub, he has a light sentence as he helps police to know Gordon action that is worse than Bub. Actually, Gordon just plans to dissolve Bluestar and sell off the company's assets secretly. That is why his behaviour against Gordon is interesting for me and the climax can take us to unexpected world but there are such as trading all over the world, so it may be real situation. I has been studying economics, management and finance(finace is a little) in Gakushuin. I think that this film not only has educational aspects to learn about how to  realize which stocks we have to buy and sell, but also teaches me that buy and sell a kind of financial product sometimes makes people change badly.

Mai.T #2 【Chicago】

I would like to introduce one of my favourite films "Chicago"

Chicago is a musical film made in 2002 after a 1975  Kander and Ebb Broadway musical of the same name. The film was directed my Rob Marshall, and Bill Condon as screenwriter. It has won six Academy Awards including the Best Picture and became the first musical film to win this since Oliver! in 1969.

The story is about two women named Roxie and Velma. Roxie is dreaming of perfoming on stage and Velma is a star singer at a bar. They were living completely different lives and were never meant to get to know eachother. Until one day, they happen to meet each other in prison for having one thing in common; murdering. Hungry for fame, they both struggle to make themselves out of prison and back on stage where they think they belong.

Roxie is played by Renee Zellweger, who is famous for acting in films such as Bridget Jones Diary and Miss. Potter. Velma is played by Catherine Zeta-Jones from Titanic and The Phantom. Both their dancing and the songs in the movie are all very excitng and  grabs your attention.

I would highly reccommend this movie to those who like watching musicals. I have seen it many times and I also have the soundtracks for the movie because I love the songs. I especially like "All That Jazz" and "We Both Reached For The Gun". Please try listening to the music first if you have any interest in watching the film!

I will be happy to lend anybody the DVD if they wish!

Blog#2 The Terminal ---Hisashi Kato

Hello guys!! How’s your summer break? I’ve been hyper busy like you guys and I’m head off to Nagano for trip with ESS member from tomorrow!

 

This time, I would like to introduce movie I watched while this break which is “The Terminal” This movie was directed by Steven Spielberg in 2004 and feathered by Tom Hanks and Catharine Zeta-Jones.

This story was created based on true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, person who lived in Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Story line

Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) is the man from country called Krakozhia. However, while he was on the air plane, to America, civil revolution occurred in his country. So since America no longer recognize Krakozhia as country, he lost all his right as citizen of Krakozhia, so had no choice to get into America or going back to his county, but to stay in JFK airport.   

While he was waiting to go into America to fulfill his father’s dream to get autograph from Benny Golson, He met women who work as cabin attendant named Amelia (Catharine Zeta-Jones) He suddenly fell in love to her, and he tries to get her attention in many ways.

Can he get her feeling and get into America in the end?

You can know concise storyline from here.

Fantastic Casts

There are so many famous actors in this movie; first of all, the director is Steven Spielberg. He is super famous director and as his recent work, The adventure of Tin tin (2011), War Horse (2011) Smash (2012) Lincoln (2013) etc... Are well known. Although he is famous for the director of E.T, which is sort of fancy movie, his works often has really strong message. This movie “Terminal” is one of them, I can feel his message of how torrent politics can affect everyday life and right of the person.

As leading actor, Tom Hanks is in this movie; His acting was really natural and showed how Viktor get used to his life in airport. For example, Viktor couldn’t speak English well, but during his 9month of stay, he mastered English and he talks really naturally. This shows how he grew up a lot through his airport life very well.

Other than Tom Hanks, Catharine Zeta-Jones known in “Chicago” 2002 and Stanley Tucci from “Devil Wears Prada” 2006 are in this movie as well, their acting brought very nice twists to this movie.

 

This is romance movie but it’s not just romance, there are also comedy part, very emotional part, political message, problem of discrimination, many circumstance made this movie complex, yet easy, clear enough to understand. This is really great movie to watch, you are going to cry for sure, over and over!

This is something you should watch in your life time!

Please watch this movie when you got time!

                                        Trailer is aviable for you on you-tube

Gone With The Wind (Maria Yaka)

Hi!  How are you? How's your summer vacation?
I watched a movie called 'Gone With The Wind'.

This movie was made in 1939 in USA, directed by David Selznick. Scarlett O'Hara is played by Vivien Leigh and  Rhett Butler by Clark Gable. It won 9 Accademy awards in 1940.

The story is very long. (It took me 4 hours to finish watching this movie.)  Scarlett O'hara ,born in Tara in USA, is a selfish woman. She finds out that her lover,  Ashley will marry to Melanie, who is kind like an angle. However, the American Civil War breaks out and all men take part in the war except Rhett Butler. He knows that South will lose and he loves Scarlett.   Scarlett and Melanie leave Tara. Melanie has a baby.  But the war is getting worse and worse. She asks Rhett to send them to Tara. They go back to Tara at the risk og thier lives to find that everything was broken by north army and that there is nothing to eat. Scarlett is  shocked at first but she swears she will be strong.

First, I was surprised at the magnificence of this movie in every way. The story, casting, music and set design. I can't believe that this movie was filmed in 1939 without CG. Furthermore, it is midst of World War Two. The number of extra is beyond my imagination.

can you believe this is not CG 

Can you see the number of the people lying on the ground?

 





Secondly, the story. It is such a long story including many events that it doesn't make us bored.  I'm sure you will be surprised to know the ending. Scarlett's strength in the bottom of the heart and Melanie's kindness is what all women wants to have. However hard the situation is, they don't give up and survive. I can't be such a strong woman but I learned the importance of strength and kindness in a crisis.

I think this film is masterpiece and will be watched by people all over the world  for now on forever.

Blog #2: Ratatouille (Juzo Nogami)

Hey, guys!! How was your summer vacation so far?
I had a wonderful and great time and I'm really busy right now. I have to do some many things and  I need more times!!

So, today I want to talk about the good film that I watched this summer. That is "Ratatouille."  I watched this film when I was in airplane to go to Taiwan.

Ratatouille was revealed in 2007 and this film got academy awards in 2008. This film is comedy and gag. It's not just funny and sometimes it makes you emotional. 

Next, I'm going to introduce about a story line. 

Remy is a rat. He is just not a normal rat. He has a high developed sense of smell and he can understand about what people said. He stimulated from Gusteau's words; Anyone can cook. Gusteau is one of the famous chef in Paris. One day, something happened and he separated from his large family and he went to Paris. Fortunately, he go to Gusteau's restaurant and he met a boy, Linguini. At the first time, Linguini can't trust the Remy's special ability. However, somehow he trust him and they become a good partner. And many problems will happen.... 

I really like this movie. I have two reasons. First of all, it's really funny and Remy is cute. My favorite part of movie is last. I can't tell you everything about the scene, but you will surprised. Because, a lot of rats are in the kitchen and they are making and cooking foods seriously. And Remy commands to everyone to cook foods perfectly. I like this scene vey much. 

Secondly, I felt this movie is not only for kids, but also for adults. Everyone can enjoy this movie. I don't know have any specific reasons for this, but I felt it. Maybe, it's really hard to guess what is going to happen next. So, that's why adults will like this film. 

Overall, this film is really good and everyone should watch this!! 

If you like to watch this film, first you should watch trailer which down below and go to this page. 

My first day of my first part time job! (Haruka Kato)

I finally got a job! This is my first job. I never worked before, because my school didn't allow us to work. I was so excited and also nervous about working. The place I work is Comeda coffee. Do you know it? It’s a coffee shop which is famous in Nagoya.

Today was a first day so, I only worked for 3hours. There are many things I need to remember. I didn’t think working is this hard! Everyone taught me really kindly. It was really hard for me to listen and move my hands at the same time. I hope I get used to it soon.
I think most of the people don’t know about this Comeda coffee shop, so I would like to introduce about it a little bit.
There aren't many Comeda coffee in Tokyo. Please search for it near where you live.
The most famous menu is a sweets called "Shironowa-ru". It has a cold ice cream on top of a warm bread. You put syrup on it before you eat it. It is really delicious! You better try it!

                                                                　　　↑"Shironowa-ru"　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Come to the shop to eat!