warning: spoiler for the first 10 minutes of SBY

the only reason I watched this film honestly

Ending my Chuseok holiday with a bit of geekiness - 1000+ screencaps (I KNOW) from the Japanese-American movie Dareka ga watashi ni kiss wo shita (lit. Someone Kissed Me ( Read more... )

( soundtrack for the Japanese film 誰かが私にキスをした - only one song is in Japanese )

There's an official facebook group up for Maki's international film debut, Dareka ga Watashi ni Kissu wo Shita. The director of the film, Hans Canosa is commenting and posting answers to fan questions right now.

spread the word!

eta: I love it when creators of things get involved - and we had a small conversation regarding my scans! <---geeker

aka Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, aka that movie where Maki gets kissed a lot

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crossposted at teamsweetpowerI do recommend the book, by the way, unless you absolutely hate Young Adult fiction. It takes the conceit of temporary amnesia and runs with it, weaving love stories out of identity and family and you know, Naomi - she's a teenage girl with all that ( Read more... )

if rumor is true, this means Maki will have made her way through 3/5 of Arashi.

OH MY GOD RUMOR APPEARS TO BE TRUE.

CHIAKI-SEMPAI? AND ABE SADAO.

TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE AWESOMESAUCE.

ETA: it appears that I broke twitter. Or twitter is broken. Anyway.

MUST GET MY HANDS ON OOKU.

crossposted at teamsweetpower

I'm going to look around for an embeddable version, but here it is. The official Yazima Beauty Salon movie trailer! So much that is both wrong and AMAZING about it.

Watch out for Meisa dancing and Yusuke bloody nosed and more cross-dressing hijinks than you can throw a D-boy troupe at.

crossposted to teamsweetpower, my pet project that I'm still not done with, but the skeleton's assembled

With a roadshow release date of April 29, 2010

recap from TokyographThe film will cover the group's fictional history up until their CD debut last year ( Read more... )

from Mark Schilling's review of BANDAGE (Shunji Iwai's new film starring Kie Kitano & Akanishi Jin)

Finally, Akanishi, singer with the pop unit KAT-TUN, is the real rock star deal as Natsu, whose bubble of celebrity and self-regard seems less constructed than naturally grown, like moss on a rock.

MOSS. ON A ROCK. THE BEST DESCRIPTION I HAVE ( Read more... )

on my twitter feed, came across the Golden Rock review of Assault Girls, and it was not good at all.

@GoldenRock
"Assault Girls terrible and terribly slow, even for Oshii, who can make a 70-minute movie with three girls with weapons feel boringemphasis mine - seriously, Japan. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE. I mean America has churned out its fair share of ( Read more... )