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The Japanese Film Festival: 2012 Eiga Sai

By on June 29, 2012

Philippines-Japan Friendship Month Opens on July 5 with Eiga Sai—The Japanese Film Festival

Enjoy free screenings of much-awaited contemporary Japanese films in July and August at the 2012 Eiga Sai. Presented by the Japan Foundation, Manila, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, UP Film Institute, Film Development Council of the Philippines, ClickTheCity.com and NET 25 TV. An invitational screening of the film ‘Villain’ on July 5 at Shang Cineplex Cinema 2, EDSA, Mandaluyong City is the kick-off event for the festivity.

Villain is a gritty social critique drama directed by Lee Sang-il, director of the multi-award film—Hula Girls. Eri Fukatsu who won the Best Actress Award at the Montreal World Film Festival 2010 and Japan Academy Prize 2011 for her role (Mitsuyo), takes on challenging and heated love scenes, playing a woman on the run with a murderer. Satoshi Tsumabuki (Yuichi) runs away after killing a woman (Yoshino) he met on a dating website. While the families of the victim and the assailant are left in agony, Mitsuyo becomes increasingly entangled in her relationship with Yuichi. The film was based on the novel “Akunin” by Shuichi Yoshida published in April 2007.

The film has also enjoyed successful runs at various international film festivals and emerged as one of the most acclaimed films from Japan in 2010, earning 15 nominations from the Japan Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture, Director and a variety of acting affirmations.

Completing this year’s roster of exciting films to be featured are the PEAK –The Rescuers, Railways, Happy Flight; Tomorrow’s Joe, In His Chart; Colorful, Abacus And Sword, Permanent Nobara, and Ninja Kids.

All films will be shown in 35mm format with English subtitles. Screening venues are at the

  • Shang Cineplex Cinema 4 (July 5 to 15)
  • Gaisano South Citimall, Davao City (July 20 to 22)
  • Ayala Center Cinema 4, Cebu City (August 7 to 12)
  • UP Film Institute, Quezon City (August 15 to 21)

Screening Schedules

SHANG CINEPLEX CINEMA 4 EDSA, Mandaluyong City

JULY 5 (Thursday) – Opening Night by Invitation at Cinema 2

  • Villain 7:00 PM

JULY 6 (Friday)

  • Railways 2:00 PM
  • Permanent Nobara 4:30 PM
  • PEAK – The Rescuers 7:00 PM

JULY 7 (Saturday)

  • Ninja Kids 2:00 PM
  • Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM
  • Happy Flight 7:00 PM

JULY 8 (Sunday)

  • Colorful 2:00 PM
  • In His Chart 4:30 PM
  • Abacus and Sword 7:00 PM

JULY 9 (Monday)

  • PEAK – The Rescuers 2:00 PM
  • Railways 4:30 PM
  • Villain 7:00 PM

JULY 10 (Tuesday)

  • Happy Flight 2:00 PM
  • Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM
  • Colorful 7:00 PM

JULY 11 (Wednesday)

  • Ninja Kids 2:00 PM
  • Permanent Nobara 4:30 PM
  • In His Chart 7:00 PM

JULY 12 (Thursday)

  • Abacus and Sword 2:00 PM
  • Railways 4:30 PM
  • Villain 7:00 PM

JULY 13 (Friday)

  • Tomorrow’s Joe 2:00 PM
  • Happy Flight 4:30 PM
  • PEAK – The Rescuers 7:00 PM

JULY 14 (Saturday)

  • Permanent Nobara 2:00 PM
  • Ninja Kids 4:30 PM
  • In His Chart 7:00 PM

JULY 15 (Sunday)

  • Abacus and Sword 2:00 PM
  • Colorful 4:30 PM
  • Villain 7:00 PM

UP FILM INSTITUTE, UP-Diliman, Quezon City

AUGUST 15 (Wednesday)

  • PEAK – The Rescuers 2:00 PM
  • Abacus and Sword 4:30 PM
  • Railways 7:00 PM

AUGUST 16 (Thursday)

  • Ninja Kids 2:00 PM
  • Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM
  • In His Chart 7:00 PM

AUGUST 17 (Friday)

  • Colorful 2:00 PM
  • Happy Flight 4:30 PM
  • Villain 7:00 PM

AUGUST 18 (Saturday)

  • Permanent Nobara 2:00 PM
  • Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM
  • Railways 7:00 PM

AUGUST 20 (Monday)

  • Abacus and Sword 2:00 PM
  • In His Chart 4:30 PM
  • Permanent Nobara 7:00 PM

AUGUST 21 (Tuesday)

  • PEAK – The Rescuers 2:00 PM
  • Colorful 4:30 PM
  • Villain 7:00 PM

For screening schedules in Cebu & Davao and information about the films, check out the 2012 Eiga Sai Flyer. This press release is from the JFMO website.

If you ask me, after reading the synopsis of each film, I’m excited to watch all of them. Take your pick and mark your calendars 😉

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Demi Days

Collection: Stuff Toys

By on June 27, 2012

One of my collections involved cute little things that I call my ‘children’ — stuff toys. When I was younger, I had a doll giving to me on a special occasion which is as tall as me. I think I still have that one hidden someone in our house. There was also this white bear that was sent by my godmother from Aussie.

Everything I have today were mostly given by friends. Here’s a list of them:

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Photography

Save Bad Photos Series: Full Moon

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Not every photo we took a shot of comes out great. It can turn out dark, unfocused or there are some photobombers around. There are a number of factors to consider – the camera itself, the lighting, the environment. I know most people know that already, so I won’t enumerate all of it here.

Starting my ‘save bad photos!’ series with one of my failed attempts to capture the beauty of a full moon.

I suck at putting watermarks before, since I wanted to use the color blue (which is my favorite :P)

Venue: Ayala Triangle Park, Ayala, Makati City

Date: November 17, 2010

My digital camera is not good taking pictures in low light places or during night time, so the image turned out dark (I honestly don’t use flash that much.) I can’t find the original image anymore, so you would see.

This is like how Jar of Salt save her photos (but she does it better ^_^). I enhanced this photo using Picasa, since I’m not that good with Photoshop. The maroon part is a tree with Christmas lights dangling on it while the building on the right is the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE).

Still I find this beautiful. 🙂

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Pop Culture

It’s More Fun with Friends: Toycon Day 2

By on June 26, 2012

I just realized I haven’t posted about Toycon yet. I went there to meet with my friend Franz and his friends Eves and Apol. I was just going to have my phone fixed (which they didn’t, since it was just a showroom). I didn’t have plans to go inside the Megatrade Halls, however, I didn’t want to be left outside.

Ready to explore, go out and repeat. 😛

Now, take a look into Toycon Day 2!

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Movie Review: Prometheus (2012)

By on June 24, 2012

My friends and I were supposed to be in a client meeting yesterday, but since there was some kind of misunderstanding, we ended up agreeing to spend time together. One of them wanted to watch The Amazing Spiderman, the other wanted Prometheus. Since the next Spiderman movie isn’t showing yet, we ended up with Prometheus.

This is one of those times that I didn’t look up information about the movie beforehand. I was expecting the movie to be related to Greek Mythology.

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Tech

Google Doodle for the Father of Computing

By on June 23, 2012

I needed to search on some stuff so I typed in google.com.ph in my browser. Today Google has honored Alan Turing, one of the known men in the filed of computing, an interactive Google Doodle.

A functioning, interactive version of the Turing Machine involves six tasks, spelling out the word Google in binary and making each letter color up one by one after each successful try.

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Advocacy

FILA and Athletes in Action Run for School Rooms

By on June 22, 2012

“A classroom is the best place to nurture our future leaders, the next generation of God-loving and nationalist Filipinos.”

– Jose Andes, National Director of Athletes in Action (AIA) Philippines.

I’ve always been an advocate of free and alternative education. Because education, for me, is indeed a right of every child. The fact that aside from inability of students to enroll because of poverty or high tuition fees, there’s the problem of lack of classrooms and facilities for learning, which makes me sad. For the people of Iligan City, the situation worsened after Typhoon Sendong back in 2011.

FILA and AIA invited bloggers last June 20 to spread the word for their noble cause — AIA’s first-ever student-based fun run entitled “Schools Run for School Rooms” aims to raise funds for the rehabilitation of classrooms in the said city.

To date, with 15,000 runners who have signed up to date, the Schools Run for School Rooms (SRSR) marathon will be gathering student-runners from major colleges and universities, to bring a glimmer of hope to Iligan city, where eager students have to do with makeshift classrooms as the school year starts. Thirteen (13) of known universities and colleges in our country have signified their interest to join the advocacy run. Also participating are groups from government agencies, private corporations and churches, as well as running enthusiasts.

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