Japanese Movies
I decided to make this page, since I've exhausted most of the good dramas out there and I've
gone on to watch movies instead. :)
Shall We Dance?
This movie is great because it's so widely available to everyone in the subtitled version (even
though they did leave out a few translations here and there ;P ). This is a great movie, featuring
a salary man who one day appears at a ballroom dance studio to take lessons, all because he saw a
forlorn, pretty girl standing at the window. It's good, clean fun for the family, and it's a definite
must-see with friends.
1997
Koi wa Maiorita
I guess loosely translated, it's "Love Dancingly Alighted." It's hard to put "maiorita" in English. :P
Anyway, this movie is like Yuu Yuu Hakusho meets City of Angels meets Ghost. I think the producer/screenwriter
were probably also into anime, because it's almost like a live-action anime (it really is a lot like Yuu Yuu
Hakusho). A playboy is suddenly comatized (if that's a word) in a car accident that was actually meant
for an old man with the same car whom he had passed earlier. Because of the mix-up, the playboy, Keiichiro
(Kei-chan), is allowed a second chance. He must make some woman happy. But since he's a playboy,
it's not as easy as it sounds. Some of it drags a little, but once you get into it, the last couple minutes
are heartstopping and gut-wrenching.
1997
More soon to come!
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