Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Film: Maborisi / Maboroshi no hikari Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 49 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <201004070742171201-somewhere@sunnycalif> <1668201a-d554-48ff-843e-44b469ee3988@5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <34fa3cdf-1488-48b7-b0b7-04e4a1f6ba86@r36g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <4bbe7c25$0$15407$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1271033020 29874 166.84.7.159 (12 Apr 2010 00:43:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.30-xen3-U (i686)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169051 The 2-Belo 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 wrote: > >>> John W. wrote: > >>>> On Apr 7, 9:42 am, Gerry 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