My First Japanese Film

{ 22/09/2009 @ 10:27 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: Fun, Odd, Travelling }

Main event today was heading into town, aiming to see this film:

As you can imagine with something this messed up, I was really looking forward to it! But Mike got us a little lost, and then got the film times wrong, so we ended up seeing Kamui Gaiden,  a ninja movie.

It was complietely insane. From one eyed generals to underwater fighting to pirates…wait a minute…I’ve just realised that Ninjas fought Pirates in the movie. Well that puts it up about 10 points in my estimation (ps, the ninjas won). Also giant sharks. There were giant sharks. It was pretty awesome.

Despite the lack of Japanese comprehension, what I managed to work out was this: Child/older lady are fighting, she owns the kid, falls into the ocean fighting a general who’s trying to protect/train the kid. Next thing the Kid is older and running away from other ninjas, who he manages to defeat (including one that flashbacked him to protecting her when they were young), and then another man (let’s call him Hanbo – not sure if that was his name though) comes and cuts of the leg of a horse belonging to a local warlord, then promising something to Kid, who attacks him, they sail off into the ocean. Hanbo then pushes Kid out, and Kid washes up on the shore – the shore of what turns otu to be Hanbo’s village. Hanbo takes him in and cares for him, and when Kid wakes up, obviously he’s angry, but is too week to fight. Then it turns  out Hanbo’s wife is the woman from the beginning, and they keep squaring  off and fighting, even after their daughter falls in love with Kid, and Hanbo begs Kid not to kill the wife. Eventually however, Kid says that he won’t kill the wife, and the wife injures him, expecting him to move. They come to a truce when a man in the village betrays Hanbo, and  the warlord comes and destroys the village taking Hanbo to be crucified. Kid and Wife rescue him.

Then, on the way back, GIANT SHARKS attack, and are only stopped when pirates come and shoo them away. I won’t give away the rest of the film, but it’s just as goddamn crazy from then on as anything else. I…you’ve just gotta watch the rest.

After the movie Mike and I modelled the latest in pimp fashion:

Beautiful, I think you’ll agree.

After that we went around the upstairs of the mall/cinema, in which there was a pet shop:

An arcade with a retroooo croc hit game:

And decided to get back home.

On the way back, a giant pachinko parlour we passed was lit up and ready to go – it was a pretty incredible sight:

It’s amazing how much time and effort people put into pachinko over here.