The 2-Belo <the2belo@msd.bigremovethislobe.ne.jp> wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that CL has
> exploded. Flight director confirms that:

> >chuckers wrote:
> >> On Apr 8, 11:29 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>> John W. wrote:
> >>>> On Apr 7, 9:42 am, Gerry <somewh...@sunny.calif> wrote:
> >>>>> Having forgotten the name of this, I somehow managed to wind up renting
> >>>>> the DVD again, at least 5 years after seeing the movie.  The wife
> >>>>> didn't recognize it for almost an hour. But when the heroine moves to
> >>>>> the coast we both remembered it well.
> >>>>> For anyone who may have seen this movie, can you tell where the last
> >>>>> half is shot. It's in coastal village. Her new husband comes to pick
> >>>>> her up in the train station, and there is a announcement regarding a
> >>>>> train to Kanazawa.
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.
> >>>> The internet is our friend:
> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maborosi
> >>>> Long live Wikipedia, without which I might actually work.
> >>> I am shocked to learn that there are Japanese-made movies in which no
> >>> one lives in Shitamachi, wears a rumpled suit and haramaki, or goes on
> >>> sales trips that take the lead actor to rural settings that feature the
> >>> underaged heartthrob of the year as "madonna" ... and that there are
> >>> also movies in which no one works for a construction company and no one
> >>> sneaks away from work and goes fishing.
> >>>
> >>> How did that happen?
> >> 
> >> You didn't include giant atomic fire breathing lizards or monstrously
> >> huge turtles that
> >> fly with jets out of their appendage holes.
> >> 
> >> Or even stories about the hard life Yakuza wives if you want more
> >> "reality" based films.
> >
> >You're correct, of course.
> >
> >Come to think of it, I also forgot to mention that I didn't know 
> >Japanese made movies whose titles didn't end in an ordinal number.

> What about the films where, due to unfortunate fictional science, all of Japan
> blows up or sinks into the ocean?

I'm confused by all these descriptions; you mean Japanese actually make movies
where something happens?

Mike