This year, we hoped to see a Japanese film. I suppose that sounds strange since we live here, but we can never go to Japanese movies in the regular theatres, because, of course, they don't have English subtitles. We decided to go to "Notebook of Life" at 4:30pm, knowing nothing about the movie except that there were a lot of beautiful snow scenes (as was obvious from the Japanese-only website).
We got there early, got reserved seats, and settled in. But there were two problems: a) They had double-booked many of the seats, including ours. It took them quite a while to get it all figured out and find a place for everyone. b) When the movie finally started, there were no subtitles, even though we had inquired about this ahead of time.
They apologized and we lucked out in getting the last two seats for another movie at 6:20, and they gave us the tickets for free! Which was great, since they were $15 each. I have to say, all this is quite unusual for Japan in my experience...usually stuff like this is so organized. So since we had time, we walked around the area (Roppongi), which has a lot of interesting architecture (I'll post pictures of it another time).
The movie was great. It's called Chosyu Five and is about five Japanese samurai who went to England to study in the late 19th century, just before the Meiji Restoration. Four of the five main actors and the director were all there before the movie for comments! We had no idea that was going to happen. Afterwards, there was a Q&A with the director, which was also really interesting.
The director, on the left, with four of the actors.
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