Japanese film festival

At the end of November there was the 14th Japanese film festival which completely out-shadowed the Korean film festival. But a summary of almost all Korean movie plots can be found here:

Anyway we only wanted to watch one which was completely SOLD OUT... >=O From the director of Kamikaze Girl's and Memories of Matsuko, he made a new, extremely interesting, plot riddling movie. That expression was pretty shoddy but to sum up, better than Inception in retaining your attention. The storytelling was well mastered and most scenes were pretty intense. That movie was...

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Confessions (2010)

How did we even get to watch this sold out movie?? LOL we put our names on the waiting list and waited from 2pm all the way till 9pm. It was that popular!! But the ticket lady saw us hanging around for an hour for extra seats and probably thought we were weirdos... But the media who were late and in the end didn't show up, freeing up some seats for us! But it cut off 10 minutes of the beginning >=( Still worth my $13!)

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In between that time we watched Harry Potter which was GOOD too! Even though they ended up not doing much for most of the movie.

How they managed that and still retained our attention must have meant some weird hypnotism took place. Nah, this movie sure isn't meant for little kids anymore, it was much darker. Good for mature aged people who like mature aged themes and not some little kids movie.

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Hehe and in between Harry Potter and Confessions, we went to a Korean BBQ down that dark alleyway... Delicious hot stuff~

This is the pork one and in such a large pot!

Way better than single meals which were already like $15
My bibimbap~ very bland without hot sauce which was not provided.
But the hot pot was already super spicy.

Our side dishes =)
Annoying friend's hand blocked the delicious kim-chi!! >=o

Our bottle of Korean alcohol ^_^
Better than whisky which tastes like shoe polish.. but still tastes like ethanol down your throat. We're lab partners btw and used to smell a lot of ethanol during practicals to get dizzy =D

We shared 1 bottle between all 4 of us and we became quite red faced. While the person at the next table had 3-4 bottles to himself and looked OH SO normal! He was hot too. Sigh, so many pretty FOBs hang around there =o=

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BACK TO CONFESSIONS!

The summary in the guide book was uninteresting and expects you to have low standards. I was about to say "Let's go home!" not wanting to wait till 9pm for a boring sounding movie, even though I organised the whole thing xD . But in the end, so glad we stayed & didn't watch it pirated lolol!

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Anyway this is the main theme: **** SPOILERS!!***

Students kill school teacher's daughter.
Students let off because they were minors and could not be convicted.
School teacher gets revenge.

But the revenge part is phrased in an uninteresting way: She undermines the situation to find out the real killers... like some typical detective movie. But it was actually a revenge movie.. They had a fair amount of black humour, not to the extent of gruesome but actually funny in a quirky, cute way like Kamikaze girls.

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Some other interesting movies that won awards and totally deserved it include:

The Girl who leapt through time.
The events in between were quite typical of someone who could travel through time. But the ending made it heart-breakingly adorable =**(

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Another movie said to be good was "BOX!"


The volunteer told us it was good. And he was a friend of a friend so he must be telling the truth... It was 2 tickets for 1 though because there was a glitch which said only 50 tickets sold to everyone. SO everyone thought it was a crappy movie no one wanted to watch it. But it was actually a very motivating and well executed movie.

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Another sold out movie was Shodo Girls.



But it sounded so corny. High schoolers in the calligraphy club trying to win a competition by performing in tune to music. And with some comedy/romance sandwiched in between... But the drama was supposedly really good.


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Well that's all I had time for... Before launching into a tight workload. Anywho, I HATE tiger airways!! The advertised flight to Melbourne is like $20 but then it's +$30, +$10 +15 etc.. hidden weird fees like check-in and more ambiguous check in fees.. Which meant the final price was about $70 one way, almost 400% the advertised price .. >=( The reviews where terrible too! Seventy percent delays to their flights, comparable to cityrail!

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So I decided to work lots and lots in case there isn't enough money for holidaying AND Summer school. Because I'm pretty close to failing one of my sciences =( GAHH I hope results never come out and dampen my happiness and ignorance while on holidays~~

Our supervisor quit today too =( She was such an interesting person though! But I'm sure I'll see her around, internet has let us all easily become stalkers. =D

Wahh there are mean customers sometimes at work! Like one lady who said she wanted a box and got angry when I gave her a smaller one. She was about to like, stamp her feet! >=o But a larger box wasn't going to fit in the largest plastic bag and she would have to hold it ^.~ So in the end she got the large box and awkwardly carried it away.

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GOING TO MELBOURNE NEXT WEEK! Can't wait! Gonna hang around Crown complex and try to stalk mychonny xD ! Lolol well I saw community channel once on george street.

Hapi holios~

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Au revoir~