7 Samurai

Unfortunately, I can give ten stars the most. I think that a 10/10 is an understatement of this film's excellence.ive seen some film of Kurosawa (Rasomon, Ran, Red beard, The Idiot) but this one is by far his greatest accomplishement to the cinema and about this film, kurosawa does not choreograph major fights until the end of the film. However, he marvellously develops the character of each samurai and the peasants.

"Seven Samurai" is a sophisticated film and it goes much deeper than the battle against bandits. Samurai and peasants were drastically different classes in ancient Japan. They did not and could not interact with each other. Interestingly, Kurosawa brings them together in "Seven Samurai". Peasants fought off bandits in order to survive. Samurai helped the bandits in pursuit for virtue and justice.

I can keep on writing about "Seven Samurai" (particularly the symbol and the meaning of guns) but I shall stop here. This film is truly classic. Its characters, plot, and themes are so meticulously developed and presented that I do not experience a boring moment. Each actor (e.g. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura) and actress plays excellent roles too. Yes, it is three and a half hours long but I love every minute of it. If you think that you are a cinema lover, you must watch it. This film is old and it is black and white. However, it is so brilliant in all areas that many colour films cannot match. i dont think i will strongly recommend it to everybody since its an old movie (even older than my parents!),and i know you might be thinking how on earth i stand watching this kind of film?!
my answer? for me "cinema is the most beautiful fraud" (quoted by goddard) and i dont go for usual typical-cliche kind of flick just to satisfy my boredom, i go for something that after i watch a film itll left me with either a big question mark thatll made me think really hard or left me as if im floating in a meadow cos i was so stunned of what my eyes had just saw. get the picture?

MY TRUE INNER NATIONALITY- it turns out IM A JAPANESE BOY!

こんにちは!! (hello)

はじめまして? (how do you do?)

私は Kurisutian です! (Im Christian)

どうぞよろしく. (nice to meet you)

Your Result: You are Japanese.

"You are good-natured and shy, interested in anything and everything that is exquisite, fine, detailed and highly cultivated. You put a lot of store in forms and formality, but that doesn't stop you from having a very poignant longing for ecstatic self-dissolution, which you sometimes achieve in groups, and sometimes through aesthetic appreciation on your own. You are much more comfortable behaving in public exactly like your peers, but when you are alone you pursue activities that are sometimes almost freakishly idiosyncratic. You make friends easily because of your gentility, but you will only be truly intimate with a very small group of them."

LOL. though its a just a stupid quiz/game i found on the net, why not give it a try? these quizes are so funny as seeing justine timberlake doing a parody of beyonce' single ladies. Lmao!

first off, i would like to qoute myself as what resulted on the quiz i took

"you are much more comfortble behaving in public exactly like your peers, but when you are alone you pursue activities that are sometimes almost freakishly idiosyncratic" HAHA. that is so me!

i mean, ever since ive always wanted to be a japanese, given a chance to be re-born again or change my nationality for a day, ill definetly chose to be a japanese or kahit "japoy" jap/pinoy lang.

(JAPOY daw oh? bagong term?? whaha!)

but not to be unnationalistic or something, i just want something for a change (100% PINOY PARIN TO! LABAN PACMAN! lol). im always fascinated of their cultures, you know samurais, ninjas, swords, head slashing!, suicide, lots of blood dripping out of their bodies (remember the movie Ichi the Killer & Imprint?)

yeah, yung mga ganung klaseng bakbakan! ubusan ng parte ng katawan! *hayaa!!* and aslo their infamous super high class technologies & advance gadgets. they're the real pioneers & innovators even americans cant even make one themselves! shame on you, you pricks! but not so much when it comes to their fashion styles. for me their fashion sense are soo bizzare and oddly looking. who says blonde can go with asian people which by the way, are naturally born brunette?? only in japan tsk tsk. na uh not my thing. but having said that, i grew up watching different kinds and tons of anime's back when i was a kid and even though i barely understand not a single word uttering on their mouth (well its dubbed of course) but still it became part of my growing up days and also oohh japanese girls! arent they so cute and oh so adorable?! KAWAII! *sigh*.(and no, not in a DR. KHO kind of way. tsk!).and lastly im so fond of their films! *7samurai*, *Shinobi*, *Battle Royale*, *Rashomon*, *Sekachu...*, *Azumi* etc...are just some of my favorite japanese films. and also mga Sentai series na rin! *Bioman*, *Maskman*, *Fiveman* etc..ahh thses are the times were i started to learn how to kick some ass! that is way back 15 years ago. (you do the math!)

日本に行きたい｡!!! (i want to go to japan!!!)

さようなら! (goodbye)

日本語を少し話します｡ (i can speak a little japanese)

(joke lang yung last sentence.hehe. though i really i want to learn how to speak japanese.) j

BATTLE ROYALE

a little trivia of this controversial japanese movie. the movie was R18 in almost all of the country in which was shown there. it was banned in the US, Singapore & Malaysia and even in JAPAN! (but they still let it shown there) last 2004 theres a crime happend in japan the "sasebo slashing" a 12 y/o school girl murder her 11 y/o classmate. the 12 y/o girl was a big fan of this movie.

The story is about a group of Highschool kids moslty aged 15. the whole class embark on a class trip. on the bus the students were gassed, kidnapped and taken into a isolated island and fitted with exploding collars, once there, they were shocked to find that they are inside an abandoned school and that Kitano (their class teacher) along with the government is behind the entire operation. Kitano informs them that they have been selected as participants in Battle Royale, a game created by the Millennial Educational Reform Act (better known as the BATTLE ROYALE ACT) where the students must kill each other until only one is left. One class from the country per year is selected to participate in the program.(last year, a girl left standing and survived all the killings) If after three days a winner is not declared, the explosive collars attached to each student's neck will be detonated. The collars also prevent the students entering certain areas of the field of participation, the "danger zones," with the intention of forcing the students to encounter one another. later they have been informed whats the reason of all of this One by one, each student leaves the school, having been provided with survival packs, maps of the island and a random weapon or other non-deadly device. some of them had luckily picked out deadly weapons like axe, shotguns, bombs, machine guns etc. while some students unfortunately picked out binoculars, "takip ng kaserola", "pamaypay", and a microphone as their weapon. im telling you, its one bloody fight between each students, even though all of them are friends. they had no choice but to kill each other, its so brutal to the extent that nobody ever trust each other anymore. meron scene dun na na touch ako kasi yung girl was hiding in a warehouse then a guy comes in and saw the girl, the girl right away shot him and he told her that "i was looking for you to protect you, ive been wanting to say this but i really like you" the girl replied "i thoguht you're here to kill me, i never thought that you like me coz you're always quite in our classroom. why didnt you tell me?!" there was this two lovers which they decided whatever happen they will never play the game. but one of them has to die to declare a winner. yung weapon ng guy eh yung "takip ng kaserola" and yung girl naman eh "binocular" but how on earth will they defend themselve with that kind of weapon? who will be last student standing? what happen to the lovers? nag patayan ba sila? oooh spoiler na. dont worry i wont tell kung sino ang natira sa class nila. hehe. as for my own opinion about this movie, if ever mangyari to sa class namin.hmmm the whole LEGAL MANAGEMENT have to kill eachother kasi it was suggested by our ATTY that who ever is the last Leg.Ma student survived he will get a mark of FLAT 1! wooh! its sooo exciting! for example, kaming 3 nalang ang natira na Leg.Ma (chard, julius & me) hmmm. hahaha! "pare, i love you but one of us only has to survive THEN BANG! binaril ko bigla si julius sa ulo sabog ang ulo nya! then kami nalang ni chard and natitira, ang weapon na napili ko eh shotgun at si chard malas nya gitara ang napili nya. haha! so BANG! binaril ko agad sya sa puso ayun patay! so ako nakakuha ng 1! haha. (walang aangal. istorya ko to!)
i wonder bat hindi ito pinalabas sa pilipinas?! pero i wouldnt think the MTRCB will let this movie shown here. remeber the Virgina Tech Massacre? thats probably one of the reason why it was banned in the US. almost ganun din story.the movie is a kind of reflection for youth. parang how far can you protect the person who are close to you? and can you really trust someone?

if you're intrested i can lend you the movie, but if you're willing to take my challenge. you can have it but you'll have to kill me first. haha.

Memories of A Murder

fuckin son of a bitch! this movie got me up all night! i just finished watching it and hey look what time it is?! its fucking 6:16am! at wala pa kong tulog and to think may class pako myang 2pm! MEMORIES of MURDER is a korean movie i would say the most perfect crime there is and it was actually based on true story. the story goes of a unidentify serial killer who rape then kills his victim. the story happend between 1989-1991. lots of bodies of women found in the province in south korea. the crime was perfectly well executed. thousand of men have gone through investigation but none of them found guilty. the serial killer has his own way of killing, he plans his attack when it rains and mostly his victim were all wearing red. and everytime he plans his attack he first request his favorite song to a radio station then he begins his grousome plan. what drive me nuts about this film is that its a 2hours long and at the end of the film i was hoping that they will finally reveal who the serial killer was, a big revelation that i was hoping,*SPOILER* but to my surprise, they still didnt identify who the killer was. i was like that was it? it was soo infuriating! so the next best thing i did was i open up my computer and starting to research for it, first stop was WIKIPEDIA, i read the plot and it says there that the case was already close in korea since they didnt found who is the killer. bummer! that didnt help! so i go to YOUTUBE to gather some opinions on the comments, and most of the users commented was "fuck! who is the killer?!" "damn, i hope that son of a bitch burn in hell!" "whoever the killer was hes probably old or dead by now"...Man! i was just about to ask the same question! and unfortunatetly none of them gave me a satisfying answer, well the korean government even they didnt know who it was, what more the others who are non-koreans? ooooh...this movie is effing brilliant, though its kind disappointing that they didnt actually caught the killer. WHOEVER YOU ARE, (killer)A LIL PIECE OF ADVICE, GO WATCH THIS MOVIE AND TRY TO REMINISCE THE PAINFUL KILLING YOU'VE DONE! AND HOPE YOUR CONSCIENCE IS KILLING YOU RIGHT NOW. well you're probably dead by now since the crime happend 23 years ago. you old fucking pervert! *sigh* but to top it all off, the whole movie itself is brilliant, though a bit boring on the first half but youll get easily get over it once youve reach the second half. i pretty much enjoyed it.