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Sun, Dec. 27th, 2009 09:25 amWhile wandering around in Kinokuniya today, I got my greedy hands on Ooku 4 (finally!) and Hoshi wa Utau 6 (both in Chinese). But! OMG! Mizushiro Setona has another new series out that is not Kuro Bara Alice? Baka-Updates says it is about a boy who tries to perfect his skills at making chocolate to get the girl he likes! Awesome. I think I will check to see if it's in Chinese before possibly getting volumes 1 and 2 in Japanese.
Also! There was the second volume of Hagio Moto's Sphinx! I have no idea what it is... anyone? Worth getting in Japanese? Or will the vocab be difficult?
So far, we have also eaten so much that we turned down extra bites of crab during lunch, and after the Kinokuniya trip, we watched the movie 十月圍城/Bodyguards and Assassins. It is about Empress Cixi sending a host of assassins to get to Sun Yat-Sen when he visits Hong Kong. I have doubts as to its historical accuracy, and it has terrible heart-string-tugging moments (symbolic dolls and pens and watches and fingers!), but was extremely enjoyable nonetheless. I am also extremely happy to learn that I will still be in Taiwan when 花木蘭/Mulan screens!
One trailer was also another historical Chinese war movie, only this time about... Confucius! Apparently they will send assassins after him too. The best bit was the name of the movie (Confucius) showing up with Dramatic Movie Music, which is really not the way I am used to thinking of him.
Still, I eat up this recent trend of Giant Chinese Epic Historical War Movies with a spoon. Historical costumes! Honor! Tactics! I love it so! I do wish there were more with women protagonists—fighting or not, I don't actually care. I find running households and embroidery and whatnot interesting too—but hopefully Mulan will satisfy that. And correct some of the really annoying things about Disney's version argh argh argh.
Also! There was the second volume of Hagio Moto's Sphinx! I have no idea what it is... anyone? Worth getting in Japanese? Or will the vocab be difficult?
So far, we have also eaten so much that we turned down extra bites of crab during lunch, and after the Kinokuniya trip, we watched the movie 十月圍城/Bodyguards and Assassins. It is about Empress Cixi sending a host of assassins to get to Sun Yat-Sen when he visits Hong Kong. I have doubts as to its historical accuracy, and it has terrible heart-string-tugging moments (symbolic dolls and pens and watches and fingers!), but was extremely enjoyable nonetheless. I am also extremely happy to learn that I will still be in Taiwan when 花木蘭/Mulan screens!
One trailer was also another historical Chinese war movie, only this time about... Confucius! Apparently they will send assassins after him too. The best bit was the name of the movie (Confucius) showing up with Dramatic Movie Music, which is really not the way I am used to thinking of him.
Still, I eat up this recent trend of Giant Chinese Epic Historical War Movies with a spoon. Historical costumes! Honor! Tactics! I love it so! I do wish there were more with women protagonists—fighting or not, I don't actually care. I find running households and embroidery and whatnot interesting too—but hopefully Mulan will satisfy that. And correct some of the really annoying things about Disney's version argh argh argh.