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Need I say it again? <_<
1. Do As Infinity – Hang Out
2. Ketsumeishi – Point of No Return
3. Pierrot – Overdose
4. Ringo Shiina – Keikoku
5. Beat Crusaders – Attention Please
6. Melody of Oblivion – Tenohita no Hikari (sung by Minawo)
7. Fullmetal Alchemist – Ready Steady Go! (sung by Larc~En~Ciel)
8. Soukyuu no FAFNER – Separation (sung by Angela)
9. Puni Puni Poemi – Yume Warai Uhyouhyo (sung by a crazy lady) LOL
10. Gundam SEED – River (sung by Tatsuya Ishii)
11. Boys Be… – Daijoubu (sung by Aki Maeda)
12. Dir En Grey – Pink Killer
13. Akeboshi – Wind
14. Hyde – Season’s Call
15. Tackey & Tsubasa – Romantic
16. KAT-TUN – Gold
17. Tetsu69 – Scarecrow
18. B’z – Banzai
19. Linkin Park – Paper Cut
20. Westlife & Diana Ross – When You Tell Me That You Love Me
21. Gorillaz – 19/2000
22. Urge Overkill – Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon
23. Gackt – Shima Uta
24. Takahashi Hitomi – Evergreen
25. W-inds – Izayoi no Tsuki
26. Chemistry – So In Vain
27. Gensomaden Saiyuki RELOAD – ID (sung by Buzzlip)
28. Beck – I’ve Got A Feeling
29. Rurouni Kenshin – It’s Gonna Rain (sung by Bonnie Pink)
30. Weiss Kreuz – Pop Girl
31. Negima OST II – Black Magic
32. FLCL – Little Busters
33. Cowboy Bebop – Call Me Call Me (sung by Steve Conte)
34. Chobits OST – Raison D’etre
Ok, so we resume digging thru my email inbox as usual.
These e-mails next is as recent as January 7, 2006. Too many e-mails. About 7200+ e-mails, and I have to pick the weeds out. <*sighs*>
Trivia: Tom Cruise never has a personal e-mail account. He kinda freaked out, they said, when he saw his inbox with 50 e-mails on the set of Mission: Impossible II.
This one below is a bit lengthy, so I did not “quote” them. Magnetic_rose e-mailed this to me, and I’m kinda interested in watching at least three or four of those. Thanks a lot, magnetic_rose. 🙂
2006 EIGA SAI: J-TEENS
Gomen / Color / 2002 / 103 mins
Directed by: Togashi Shin
Nanao Seiichi, or Sei for short, is a sixth grader living in the
suburbs of Osaka. One day, a sudden sexual ejaculation during class
makes him aware of the physical changes that accompany growing up.
Around that time, Sei falls in love with a girl he meets when he
visits his grandparents in Kyoto. Sei goes to see her, only to find
out with shock that she, Naoko, is an eight grader, or an “older
woman.” Nevertheless, he manages to arrange a date with her, only to
upset her talking about her divorced parents. His once-in-a-lifetime
performance asking her to got out with him falls through when she
bluntly refuses. This is Sei’s most discouraging experience of his
life. Still, he continues to overcome all difficulties, perseveres,
and is finally rewarded by Naoko’s kiss on the cheek.
First Love / Color / 2000 / 115 mins
Directed by: Shinohara Tetsuo
The life of Satoka is complicated by her mother’s cancer and the fact
that she and her father could never communicate well and now she is
thrown in with him everyday. In going thru her mother’s things Satoka
discovers a love letter written to Shinichiro, her mother’s first
love. Satoka determines to fulfill her mother’s wish to see him again.
She finds him but he is no longer the man her mother knew. Still, she
persists and eventually grooms him back to something like his former
self. At the long planned reunion – under the blossoming cherry tree,
just as her mother had imagined – things do not turn the way she
expected them to.
Waterboys / Color / 2001 / 91 mins
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Suzuki, a high school senior, is the last remaining member of the
Tadani High School swim team. If no new members join the team this
year, it will be cancelled altogether. Fortunately, a pretty teacher,
Sakuma, is picked as the swim team’s new coach. After class, 30 young
men gather at the poolside. Many of them, like Sato, who was forced to
quit basketball because of an injury, want to join the team for
reasons other than a love of the water. Despite the huge crowd,
however, Sakuma wears a frown. She had dreamed of coaching a
synchronized swimming team, an ambition that was shattered when she
was assigned to work at a boy’s school. She announces to the students
that she plans to teach them synchronized swimming in spite of their
gender. Most of the young men flee instantly. When the daunt settles,
only five students are left: Suzuki, Sato, Ohtu, Kanazawa, and
Saotome. Hoping to cheer Sakuma up, they launch into a silly intention
of Olympic style women’s synchronized swimming moves. An overjoyed
Sakuma decides that the team will present a synchronized swimming
performance at the school festival. The five members are taken aback…
Tsugumi / Color / 1990 / 105 min
Directed by: Ichikawa Jun
Born with a weak heart and spoiled from the word go, Tsugumi is a
precocious 18 year old girl. Her daily life is clouded by a fear of
death and she always behaves selfishly, making her friend Maria feel
very sorry for her. Off in Tokyo studying at a university, Maria was
invited by Tsugumi and her sister Yoko for summer vacation to meet at
Izu where they all grew up and went to high school.
Walking around the streets they have passed together, the girls calmly
drift in nostalgic memories. As they bathe in their nostalgia, a young
boy named Kyoichi goes by, capturing their collective attention.
Later, as guided by fate, Tsugumi and Kyoichi happen to meet. The two
are naturally attracted to each other, and things proceeded from
there. However, other boys have their own ideas about Tsugumi, and
they are not the nicest kids. They’ve got a crush on her, and don’t
like seeing Kyoichi enter the picture. Finally, the young delinquents
assault Kyoichi, and in the end they kill Tsugumi’s beloved dog.
Thinking of revenge, Tsugumi gathers all her strength to dig a pit
trap, but drops in a dead faint, foiled by her weak body.
This is the way the summer ended, and Maria returned to Tokyo. One
day, Maria receives a letter from Tsugumi
containing her will. Maria is pretty upset, but she has to go to her
part-time job. At work, she gets a call, and immediately assumes it’s
news of Tsugumi’s death. Worried she picked up the receiver and hears,
“Hey! Ugly Hag!” It’s Tsugumi’s cheerful, joking voice.
Swimming Upstream / Color / 1990 / 95 min
Directed by: Matsuoka Joji
One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the poolside…Thus
begins the story of one-sided love, Kaoru immediately joins the swim
team. Sonoko quickly realizes his unusually simply naiveté, and resign
herself to his presence. Kaoru has borrowed a motorcycle from his girl
friend Pooh. She likes him, but he comes around only when he’s in
trouble. Kaoru has his eye on Sonoko, so he comes around every morning
and tries to offer her a ride to school. Much to Sonoko’s surprise, he
even makes friends with her mother, bringing her over to his side.
Kaoru is determined to go to the Olympics, if only to impress Sonoko.
He begins going to swimming club often, and comes under the coaching
of a rather strange old woman that always wears a gold medal on her
neck. One day, Kaoru is called to a dry steambed, where he sees Sonoko
walking arm in arm with Nagai, the school’s ace swimmer. On their
first match-up, Kaoru lost to Nagai and hasn’t forgotten it. Little
does he know, this is exactly Sonoko’s strategy. If he saw her with
Nagai, certainly Kaoru would lose his presence of mind and resolve to
stay away from her. But Kaoru did not give up and the rivalry between
the two swimmers heats up day by day. Sonoko was unable to maintain
her mental composure, and begins to gain weight from over-eating. It’s
at this moment that Kaoru experiences for the first time the severity
of struggling on one’s own. He resolves to stay away from her. As for
Sonoko, before she knows it, her thoughts are drawn toward Kaoru.
Kaoru, who has been avoiding the swimming pool, communicates his own
feelings to Sonoko.
A Summer Page / Color / 1990 / 92 mins
Directed by: Oikawa Yoshihiro
Ippei is hovering between boyhood and young manhood. His best friends,
Hiroshi and Taiheiyo, already seem to be well on their way in this
transition. One morning, the three boys set out for Mt. Myojin-dake on
their bicycles on what turns out to be an adventurous camping trip.
Their beloved teacher, Mr. Sasa, had promised to take them their the
year before, but his untimely death prevented him.
They have some interesting experiences but remember what their teacher
had always told them: They could achieve many things just because they
were three, together and united.
Mountain weather is changeable, and what begun as sunny and cloudless
days became stormy as they approach the mountain summit. They are
rescued by Mr. Machida, a friend of Mr. Sasa, who was collecting
fossils on the mountainside with his wife and daughter. The cottage
they took refuge in begins to collapse so they evacuate to a nearby
cave, and Mr. Machida braves the storm to go to the village for help.
But soon after he leaves his wife, who was pregnant, suddenly feels
the beginnings of labor pains. With Mrs. Machida suffering before
their eyes, the boys, confused and bewildered, realize how helpless
they are in this completely unknown situation. Then Mr. Sasa’s often
repeated words come to their mind: “They could achieve many things
just because they were three, together and united. Although uncertain
that what they are doing is correct, through trial and error they
finally succed in brining a new life into the world.
The storm blows itself out, and sunlight streams into the cave,
Bicycling back home in the cool breeze that hints the end of summer.
They decide that throughout life the three of them will retain their bond.
Memories of You / Color / 1988 / 104 mins
Directed by: Sawai Shinichi
On a street in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Akira Kamijo, a university student,
happens to meet Yumi Hirose. He had tutored her some years ago and is
surprised that the once little girl has grown into a lovely fourteen
year old high school student.
Not long after, however, Tomoko, Yumi’s mother, si told by her doctor
that Yumi has leukemia and has onlu six months to live. Tomoko, who is
separated from her husband, has been raising Yumi by herself.
Though totally confused and bewildered by her daughter’s illness. She
wishes Yumi to pass her remaining days as enjoyable as possible, and
entreats Akira, whom Yumi adores like a brother, to be her friend.
Akira naturally says that he will do what he can.
For awhile, Yumi’s condition is stable. Then on an early summer day
she suddenlu falls ill at school – the same day Akira is leaving for
his home in Nagano Prefecture for practical training as teacher.
To recuperate, Yumi goes to a friends villa in the resort town of
Karuizawa in Nagano. From time to time she visits the school where
Akira is teaching. Just being with Akira makes her happy and eases her
anxiety and fear about her illness. Akira seeing her so cheerful and
relaxed with hi, determines to stand by her till the end.
Summer is over, and when Akira returns to Tokyo he finds Yumi about to
be hospitalized. He therefore takes her to a dinner party with a group
of mountaineering friends. After an enjoyable evening, Yumi breaks
down on the way home and tells him how much she wants to live to be
with him.
After a meeting with her father, Akira, with the assent of her mother
and doctor, takes her to Mt. Hodoka, where she is content but unable
to climb far until he tenderly carries her. As she falls into her
final delirium, they express their deep love for other.
Young Girls in Love / Color / 1986 / 98 mins
Directed by: Omori Kazuki
Takako is a senior high school girl. She lives in Kanazawa with her
older sister, Hiroko, who is in college. She has three companions at
school, Midoriko, Teiko and Kinuko, who are rather strange. Teiko is
the smartest student in the class, but no one can keep up with her.
Kinuko, who spends most of her time painting, has been held back a
year in school.
Midoriko holds a funeral each time she has a shocking experience.
Takako has attended these ceremonies twice before. The present funeral
is for Midoriko’s broken heart. After the funeral is over, Teiko tells
Takako about her love for an older man. Takako experiences a strange
stirring in her heart after Midoriko and Teiko told her about their
feelings for the opposite sex. She has been in love without knowing
it, and these two friends have made her begin to realize what her
feelings mean. The boy whom she has feelings for, Masaru, is a
classmate of hers and member of the school’s baseball team. However,
Masaru likes someone else. To him, Takako is just like one of his male
friends.
When she begins to realize she loves Masaru, Takako also starts to
notice that someone else has been admiring her. It is Kanzaki Motoshi,
a younger student, whom her sister once tutored. It is a very strange
experience for her. Not only is she in love for the first time, but
someone is in love with her too. She does not know how to deal with
it, and is driven more than one to resort to extreme measures.
One day when Takako is back visiting her parents in the country,
Kanzaki shows up. He came all the way to ask her for a date. She sees
in Kanzaki an ability to express his love outwardly, and her feelings
toward Masaru begin to change in a subtle manner.
On the night of Hiroko’s graduation party, Masaru’s girlfriend leaves
him. Takako witnesses thescen, and before she knows it, she is on her
way to Kanzaki’s house. She seeks his affection in tears. Through the
window of Kanzaki’s room, the two see Kanzaki’s father and Hiroko
parting. Takako feels she now understands a little of what it means to
love someone.
Takako, Midoriko and Teiko hold a Japanese tea ceremony at the beach.
Each girl, who experienced love in her own way, seems to have advanced
a step toward womanhood.
2006 EIGA-SAI screening schedule; schedules subject to change without
prior notice.
* Feb 20 & 21 also showing
Shangri-la Plaza
Feb 13 (Mon)
2:00 PM — Memories of You
5:00 PM — Young Girls In Love
Feb 14 (Tue)
2:00 PM — A Summer Page
5:00 PM –Tsugumi
Feb 20 (Mon)*
2:00 PM — Waterboys
5:00 PM — Gomen
Feb 21 (Tue)*
2:00 PM — First Love
5:00 PM — Swimming Upstream
* Feb 20 & 21 also showing
UP Film Institute
Feb 15 (Wed)
2:00 PM — Gomen
5:00 PM — First Love
8:00 PM — A Summer Page
Feb 16 (Thu)
2:00 PM — Young Girls in Love
5:00 PM — Swimming Upstream
8:00 PM — Memories of You
Feb 17 (Fri)
2:00 PM — Waterboys
5:00 PM — First Love
8:00 PM — Gomen
Feb 18 (Sat)
8:00 PM — Waterboys
Feb 19 (Sun)
2:00 PM — Tsugumi
5:00 PM — Young Girls in Love
8:00 PM — A Summer Page
Feb 20 (Mon)*
2:00 PM — Memories of You
5:00 PM — Swimming Upstream
8:00 PM — First Love
Feb 21 (Tue)*
2:00 PM — A Summer Page
5:00 PM — Tsugumi
8:00 PM — Gomen
Mar 21 (Tue)
4:00 PM — Gomen
7:00 PM — Waterboys
Mar 22 (Wed)
4:00 PM — Tsugumi
7:00 PM — Swimming Upstream
Mar 23 (Thu)
4:00 PM — First Love
7:00 PM — A Summer Page
Mar 24 (Fri)
4:00 PM — Memories of You
7:00 PM — Young Girls In Love
Mar 25 (Sat)
4:00 PM — First Love
7:00 PM — Gomen
Mar 26 (Sun)
4:00 PM — A Summer Page
7:00 PM — Young Girls In Love
from THE JAPAN FOUNDATION
https://jfmo.org.ph/
Sidenote: Some of the movies are as old as me. Well, I hope they could be entertaining at least.
And again, too many Filipino Hydeists. One even e-mailed our groups named “hydeist cris”. A simple know-you note, the it’s all just plainness.
NOW THIS is something I read last year. GLOBE, our local cellphone service provider, introduced the first of Laruku ringtones. Yay-yay-yay! But, wait until my SMART simcard is dealt with, no GLOBE yet. Waah. T_T SMART kinda sucks. GLOBE got it’s feet first on this kind of good music.
> Latest post of the admin of the Laruku thread in the Sony Music Philippines Forums.
(from email)
> _________________________________
> Posted – Dec 20 2005 : 11:28:34
>
> Thanks for waiting patiently ^_^
>
> Here’s the first four Laruku Ringbacks on Globe… all you need to do
> is send the songcode (SA###) to 2332 and follow the prompts. These
> just got published today – they might actually be available tomorrow.
>
> 1
> 4thAveCafe/Laruku
> L’Arc-en-Ciel
> SA152
>
> 2
> Finale/Laruku
> L’Arc-en-Ciel
> SA151
>
> 3
> DriversHigh/Laruku
> L’Arc-en-Ciel
> SA150
>
> 4
> Anemone/Laruku
> L’Arc-en-Ciel
> Sony
> SA149
>
> Cheers!
OK, since my class is up next, probably I will leave this as is, next blog entry will be the last one for email inbox digging. Tnx!
Briathrail // Albert 2MNG 
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