タイヨウのうた (Song of the Sun)

En français

タイヨウのうたis a japanese drama in 10 episodes from 2009. I already talked about the movie coming from the same story here.


















Kaoru Amane dreams of becoming a singer. She started to play the guitar when a boy abandoned his guitar in front of her bedroom at the hospital where she is treated for XP, a decease that forbid her to enter in contact with the sun. As her friend brought her a video of her day she sees the boy from the guitar again before meeting him as she is singing in the street. Then a love story will start. But he is caught up by his past and she is followed by the curse of the sun.

This drama is a lesson of courage because no matter how bad things are Amane will never give up on things and people she loves. I really like the music as well.
Start watching here.

Casting :
沢尻エリカ as Amane Kaoru (Shinobi)
山田孝之 as Fujishiro Koji (クローズZERO, クローズZERO II)
松下奈緒 as Tachibana Asami
佐藤めぐみ  as Matsumae Misaki (花より男子 returns, 花より男子 season 1)
濱田岳  as Kato Haruo
川村陽介  as Tatsunami Ryusuke

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不能說的秘密 (secret)

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不能說的秘密 is a romantic Taiwanese movie from 2007 directed, written and played by the musician Jay Chou.

Ye Xianglun is a piano student who just transfer 淡江中學 (Tamkang (Danjiang) Secondary School), a school famous for talented musician, especially in piano. On his first day he meets Lu Xiaoyu another piano student playing a strange melody on the oldest piano of the school. She told him that it is a secret, and that he should never play this melody on this piano pretexting that it's not good enough. They start a mysterious relationship as Lu Xiaoyu seems to be sick and often disappears. When a mis-passed notes leads to Xianglun to accidentally kiss Qing Yi, Xiaoyu disappears again leading Xianglun to look for her, she comes back for graduation before disappearing again leading Xianglun to discover her secret. However the old piano room is to soon be destroyed.



I really like this movie because the music is beautiful and the story is also touching and funny at time. The character of Lu Xiaoyu is captivating due to her secret and she face the incomprehension of a lot of people including her mother and teacher who she trusted. Also even if he doesn't understand everything Xianglun is always trying his best to be there for her. There are very interesting musical part such as for example the piano battle.


Casting :

周杰倫 (周杰伦) (Jay Chou) as 葉湘倫 (Ye Xianglun)
桂綸鎂 (桂纶镁) (Kwai Lun-mei) as 路小雨 (Lu Xiaoyu)
黄秋生 (黄秋生) (Anthony Wong Chau-sang) 小倫爸爸: Xianglun's father
曾愷玹 (曾恺玹) (Alice Tzeng) as 晴依 (Qing Yi)
宋健彰 (Devon Song) as 阿宝/阿寶 (Abao)
黃俊郎 (黄俊郎) (Huang Junlang) as 阿郎 (Alang)
詹宇豪 (Yuhao Zhan) as 雨豪 (Yu Hao)

Cinema, Manga, Animation Content

Vlog : How this blog started.

I decided as a new year resolution to make a video a week. You can already see the problem, or if you don't check the date. Anyway after procrastinating on doing it, I finally decided to do it, today. It's a bit incredible how things that you imagine are going to take for ages actually don't take that much time in the end.

I don't really have rules for the videos. This time it's all about how I started this blog. Next time I'm not sure. I think I would just follow my mood. You can always remind me to do something if you don't get a video next week.

I'm not really comfortable taking video, lack of practice I think. I also realized that I make grammar mistakes while speaking so you'll have to bear with it. And I'm speaking really slowly as well. I guess it will get better with time.

Japan : Trip to Kansai, 京都, 京都タワ and end

En français 
After diner we went to 京都タワ, some of us too the lift to the top to have a panoramic view of the city at night. That was really good. We could see the light from the temple that the group visited before we joined them. Then we went back down to the shop to buy some お土産　and at the closure we decided to go at the top of the train station while waiting for our bus. We took the bus back to Shinjuku and arrived rather tired the next morning. With a little bit of an effort we were back in Chofu to finish our night sleep.
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Then I got told there were two 京都タワ and I felt for it, ばか私。

Cinema, Manga, Animation Content

En français
The Cinema and Anime sections have been becoming a lot bigger lately and I'm planing on increasing them even more. Therefor I think it's the right time to make an organized  table of content. This way movies, series and everything you want will be a lot easier to find. This post will be available under "Cinema content" in the right side bar. And of course it will be updated with each new movie being presented.

Chinese movies

神話 (the myth)

Japanese movies

戀愛地圖 / アバウト・ラブ / 関於愛 (about love)
クローズZERO (Crows Zero)
GTO the movie
ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 千年呪い歌(Kitaro and the millenium curse)
タイヨウのうた (Midnight Sun)
ロミオとジュリエット (Romeo and Juliet)
リンダ リンダ リンダ ( Linda Linda Linda)
ガリレオΦ (Galileo episode zero)
ガリレオ: 容疑者Xの献身 (Galileo : The Devotion of Suspect X)
名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戦状 (Detective conan live action special 1)
名探偵コナン- 工藤新一の復活！~黒の組織との対決 (Detective conan live action special 2)
ジウ　警視庁特殊犯捜査係 (Jiu)
携帯彼氏 (cellphone boyfriend)
悪夢探偵 (Nightmare detective)
永遠の0 (The eternal zero)
嫌われ松子の一生 (Memories of Matsuko)
Roommate
ただ、君を愛してる

Korean movies 

リンダ リンダ リンダ ( Linda Linda Linda)
B형 남자친구, My boyftiend is type B
My Little Bride 어린 신부
형사 (Duelist)

엠 (M)
엽기적인 그녀 (My Sassy girl)
중독 (Addicted)
내츄럴 시티 : Natural city
데이지 (Daisy)
외출 (外出, April Snow)
도 레 미 파 솔 라 시 도 (Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do)
시월애, Il Mare

Taiwanese movies

戀愛地圖 / アバウト・ラブ / 関於愛 (about love)
 不能說的秘密 (secret)

Japanese dramas

グレート・ティーチャー・オニヅカ GTO
1リットルの涙 (one liter of tears)
花より男子 season 1
花より男子 returns
魔女の条件 (forbidden love)
のだめカンタービレ (Nodame cantabile)
タイヨウのうた (Song of the Sun)
オレンジデイズ (orange days)
ガリレオ (Galileo)
ボス (boss)
ボス (boss) season 2
ゴンゾウ / 伝説の刑事
ジウ　警視庁特殊犯捜査係 (Jiu)

Korean drama

1%의 어떤것 (1% of anything)

이 죽일놈의 사랑 A love to kill
베토벤 바이러스 Beethoven Virus
大長今 : Dae Jang Geum
여름향기 (Summer scent)
가을동화 Autumn tales
겨울연가 Winter sonata
마이걸 ( My girl)
마지막 춤은 나와 함께 (Save the last dance for me)
미안하다, 사랑한다 (I'm Sorry, I Love You)
태왕사신기, The Legend

Japanese animation movies

パーフェクトブルー (perfect blue)
パプリカ (Paprika)
千年女優 (Millennium Actress)
もののけ姫 (princess Mononoke)
千と千尋の神隠し (Spirited away)
魔女の宅急便 (Kiki's delivery service)
Miyazaki's 猫の恩返し (The Cat Returns)
天空のエスカフローネ（The Vision of Escaflowne)
天空の城ラピュタ (Laputa : Castle in the sky)

Korean animation movies

천년여우 여우비 (Yobi, the five tailed fox)


Japanese animation series
グレート・ティーチャー・オニヅカ GTO
カードキャプターさくら (Cardcaptor Sakura)
エンジェルビーツ (Angel beats)
まほろまてぃっく (Mahoromatic)
神風怪盗ジャンヌ (Kamikaze kaitou jeanne)
吸血姫 美夕 Vampire Princess Miyu
天空のエスカフローネ（The Vision of Escaflowne)

African movies 

Screening of "Tilaï"

Western movies 
Abduction
Alice in Wonderland
Avalon 
Contact
Copycat
Ghost Writer  
Godzilla
Gorillas in the mist
Horns
Interstellar
Into the wood 
Jurassic Park
K-pax
La Belle et la bête!
La Science des Rêves 
Lucy
Maleficient
Misery
Murder by number
Noah
Secret Window
Speed Racer
The bling ring
The bounty hunter
The devil wears prada
The edge of tomorrow
The fifth element
The Frame 
The Girl who kicked the hornet's nest (3)
The Girl who Played With Fire (2)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1)
The golden compass  
The Goonies
Guardians of the galaxy
The hobbit: An unexpected journey (1)
The hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (3)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2)
The Imitation Game
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The perk of being a wallflower
Twister

Under the Tuscan Sun
Veronika decides to die
What dreams may come (Special Robin Williams)
What if
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Japan : Trip to Kansai, 京都, 西京区

En français
We finally went back and took the right train for 西京区 to go to 嵐山. We went to see 渡月橋 first, the romantic "Moon Crossing Bridge". It's been said that when you across this particular bridge, you must not look behind, otherwise your relationship will break up and that if you go there with someone you like you will stay together.We then went to the Monkey Park. Once we reached the top of the mountain, we could feed the monkeys. We also observed there diner time before going back down. We tried to go to the bamboo road but it was already night when we got there so we didn't see much. We then went back to 京都 for diner. It had been raining all afternoon and we were all wet and tired but that was still a lot of fun.
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Japan : Trip to Kansai, 京都, little incident

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The next morning we were planing to go to ,西京区 to visit the area, old Japanese house, temple, monkey park, bamboo road. But when we arrived at the train station things got a little complicated and we got into the wrong train and ended up in 敦賀 instead. That was kind of a epic mistake as we stayed in the train for more than one hours then had to get back. But that was still fun. The train controller didn't made us pay the extra ticket and even wrote a letter to make sure that we would be able to use our tickets to go to our original destination. The landscape was really beautiful and we could see the sea from the train. That made the trip turn into a little adventure. It's good to have a bit of excitement.
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