Of trains and the Meisa play
This morning... well... actually five minutes before I wanted to leave... started with my drainage problem again. I went over to the front desk, told them it had happened again. Older male staff-san said he would take care of it and I walked to the station, about 10 minutes behind schedule by now.
Already from the outside I could see a crowd standing there, which was HIGHLY unusual for this station and this time of the day. There is hardly ever anybody there. So I asked staff-san how to get to Shimbashi from there. They first sent me to Akabane (which is the wrong direction), from there to Ueno and then with Yamanote to Shimbashi. The Keihin-Tohoku line wasn't running, so that was the only way to get from Higashijujo to Shimbashi. Yeah!
Arrived in Shimbashi about 11:20, the play started at 12:00, but it didn't take that long to walk there and I didn't get lost. Yeah ^^
Uhm... yeah... how shall I sum this up? Okashii?
Apparently she is a shinigami, falls in love. Guy doesn't want her first, then they get together. He has to leave, she doesn't want to fall in love ever again. Human shows up, loves her and wants to marry her. He doesn't give up, they marry. Stuff happens, people hit each other all the time. Meisa gets beaten a lot too by her husband. Bomb is placed in Tokyo. Meisa is pregnant. Bomb is still there. People tell her to get away. Fight with police. Husband accidentally kills her in the fight with the police.
20 years later: Her daughter takes revange and kills dad.
Questions?
The good points were the dancing of the cast and the only other female character did some great pole-dancing. Which was random, but she was GOOD.
Meisa looked very pretty in the red mini-dress she was wearing for the final dance.
And now onto the bad points:
First of all, whoever wrote it deserves some kick in the ass and should go back to "Writing stage plays 101", because it was horribly written. At least that's my impression. The characters all hold lenghty monologues, but hardly ever interact with each other. For the rare occasion that they actually do talk to each other, they never face the other character, but look to the audience all the time -.-;;;
They are all wearing tracking suits, all of the time. Apart from two or three people. Meisa's curves covered by a tracking suit? SHAME ON YOU, DIRECTOR!
Meisa herself didn't talk that much, but one of the male main characters (husband aka Baba Toru, anybody who wants to say SURPRISE?) was talking so, so much when they had scenes together. He spoke like three minutes without a break and she answers with three words or something like that.
The couple was having quite one-sided discussions like that and then he'd hit her. She hits back. He talks again. And she goes "now, let's order sushi". He hits her again and more talk. WTF?!!!
I'm totally against hitting other people, so of course I wasn't to pleased by the constant violance there. You don't kick people lying on the ground. Also, you do NOT beat your wife. The missing interaction between the characters was a downer too. Of course I can't say anything about deeper meanings or anything, maybe there is one and I just couldn't get it due to my lack of Japanese.
And in the end all people are dead. <-- _._ (except for the daugther)
I started to read "The Neverending Story" in Japanese. It only takes me about 4-5 minutes per page. I'm currently reading it without a dictionary, but might use one once I'm at home. Anyway, I get the rough basics and it will take me ages until I finished the book ^^;;;
Already from the outside I could see a crowd standing there, which was HIGHLY unusual for this station and this time of the day. There is hardly ever anybody there. So I asked staff-san how to get to Shimbashi from there. They first sent me to Akabane (which is the wrong direction), from there to Ueno and then with Yamanote to Shimbashi. The Keihin-Tohoku line wasn't running, so that was the only way to get from Higashijujo to Shimbashi. Yeah!
Arrived in Shimbashi about 11:20, the play started at 12:00, but it didn't take that long to walk there and I didn't get lost. Yeah ^^
Uhm... yeah... how shall I sum this up? Okashii?
Apparently she is a shinigami, falls in love. Guy doesn't want her first, then they get together. He has to leave, she doesn't want to fall in love ever again. Human shows up, loves her and wants to marry her. He doesn't give up, they marry. Stuff happens, people hit each other all the time. Meisa gets beaten a lot too by her husband. Bomb is placed in Tokyo. Meisa is pregnant. Bomb is still there. People tell her to get away. Fight with police. Husband accidentally kills her in the fight with the police.
20 years later: Her daughter takes revange and kills dad.
Questions?
The good points were the dancing of the cast and the only other female character did some great pole-dancing. Which was random, but she was GOOD.
Meisa looked very pretty in the red mini-dress she was wearing for the final dance.
And now onto the bad points:
First of all, whoever wrote it deserves some kick in the ass and should go back to "Writing stage plays 101", because it was horribly written. At least that's my impression. The characters all hold lenghty monologues, but hardly ever interact with each other. For the rare occasion that they actually do talk to each other, they never face the other character, but look to the audience all the time -.-;;;
They are all wearing tracking suits, all of the time. Apart from two or three people. Meisa's curves covered by a tracking suit? SHAME ON YOU, DIRECTOR!
Meisa herself didn't talk that much, but one of the male main characters (husband aka Baba Toru, anybody who wants to say SURPRISE?) was talking so, so much when they had scenes together. He spoke like three minutes without a break and she answers with three words or something like that.
The couple was having quite one-sided discussions like that and then he'd hit her. She hits back. He talks again. And she goes "now, let's order sushi". He hits her again and more talk. WTF?!!!
I'm totally against hitting other people, so of course I wasn't to pleased by the constant violance there. You don't kick people lying on the ground. Also, you do NOT beat your wife. The missing interaction between the characters was a downer too. Of course I can't say anything about deeper meanings or anything, maybe there is one and I just couldn't get it due to my lack of Japanese.
And in the end all people are dead. <-- _._ (except for the daugther)
I started to read "The Neverending Story" in Japanese. It only takes me about 4-5 minutes per page. I'm currently reading it without a dictionary, but might use one once I'm at home. Anyway, I get the rough basics and it will take me ages until I finished the book ^^;;;