dark_hyde

Director Guy Moshe: "My next film is called Bunraku and it is an action-fantasy circus ride into man's fascination with violence."

I really like that.

"It has a sort of a Spaghetti Western, samurai movie feel and it's going to be built and shot entirely on a stage [...]".

But not really sure whether I like that...





Source: http://www.swide.com/luxury-magazine/en/Faces/Artists/Josh-Hartnett--Down-Town-Nov-09-/2009/11/27/

So I finally watched the long awaited movie yesterday night.

And now have another let-down to end to the list that seemed to have started a few weeks ago.
It started with Kingdom Hearts, I think. That 358/2 Days DS game was really disappointing. So much that I only played it for three or four days and then laid it aside.
The next thing was Tekken 6. Complete failure. And an expensive one at that...
Then the Tekken movie, of which I can say that it is screwed up even without having watched it. The movie poster says it all.

Oh, and there was also Josh Harntett's other movie I was excited about. August. Wasn't really that good either, but at least better than I Come With The Rain.

Really. I looked forward to this one so eagerly. I couldn't wait. And now this. I'm sad that I ended up not liking it, but I can't exactly help it, can I?
The plot itself was quite interesting. The way it was told was boring, the way the story was developed was boring, even slow, and it felt like there were a few holes in it, too.
I'm sorry to say this, but Josh Hartnett, Lee Byung-hun and Kimura Takuya were not able to save the movie. No matter how good their acting was or how good they looked. It didn't help the matter.
But I have to say this: the movie had some pretty brutal scenes and I have never seen anything even similar to this. Not even coming close. The way those scene were presented was unique, too. It was very disturbing and fascinatingly beautiful at the same time.
I have to give them that. The style with which the brutality, pain and suffering were captured was something that I really liked about the movie.

It's sad that they didn't make more out of this movie. It had SO much potential.
Now I fear for Bunraku. I really do. I hope so much that it won't end up being on my let-downs-list as well.

And Hollywood is serious business. I tell you.



God, they screwed that one up for sure. I expected no less.


But it's not really making me sad. I mean, Tekken 6 was a let-down itself. If the creators of the original don't get it right then how the hell is Hollywood supposed to?

Just wanted to let you know that I was busy reading the whole series over the past two weeks and that I didn't really get to do anything besides that.
This has to be one of my favourite Mangas now.
It's really really awesome.

And I found it shared quite a few similarities with Moon Child. Or rather the other way round.
But I can see why Gackt likes the series so much.

"Banana Fish" is one hell of an epic story and has a lot of really loveable characters.
I'm sad that it is over.

But on the other hand I have enough time now to concentrate on other things again. :D

Jesus. I had the weirdest of dreams yesterday night...
Both Sho and Teijirou Takegami appeared in it. (which in itself is pretty cool, of course)
But it seemed like a terrible war was taking place and Sho fought his way out of a building with some random guys, but the moment they came out they ran straight into an ambush. Somehow Sho managed to draw all the attention on himself so that his friends could escape. He fought the soldiers a while longer, but in the end he was captured and taken away with a helicopter.
When he came back to his senses he was imprisoned in a dark room together with several other boys. The room was drowned in a green-yellowish light, it was a really uneasy atmosphere.
But what was even more disturbing was the fact that all of them were wearing strait jackets, including Sho.
Then a few men came walking into the room. Among them was Teijirou, without a strait jacket, mind you. He was dressed all in white nonetheless.
The men stepped out of the room and Teijirou singled out Sho, freed him from his jacket and gave him a long metal chain. He then gestured for Sho to attack him!
And Sho really did. But even though he was useing the chain to attack Teijirou, he didn't stand a chance against him. He was simply dodging Sho's attacks with a grin and then lunged forward to attack back.
That moment I thought "Noooooo!!" and woke up.

Ever since, I just can't stop thinking about the two. Does that mean I should the heck get backt to working on my fanfic?

Fuck it all. Seriously.
I want to rant about it so badly but I swore to myself that I wouldn't post anything too personal ever again on the internet. So I won't.
But because I am who I am I had to go and delete the posts related to "Requiem". You will find out the reason in the near future. I promise.
I just CAN'T do this half-heartedly. It's way too prescious to me.

I'm pretty angry and frustrated right now. Don't mind this post. I'll most likely delete it within the next week anyway.

I feel like screaming. GAH.

SUCKS.

That game is a real disappointment.

And Kazuya Mishima can't swim apparently. WTF Namco.

Lately a lot of bad things happened, which is why I haven't been online for quite a while. But then all of a sudden a few (really) good things arose, which made me come back.

The best thing probably is that I'll be working on a translation (from Japanese into German) within a group at our university and our translation WILL BE PUBLISHED. We won't get payed, of course, and the book seems to be rather boring, but who cares?
Our names will be credited and I will work on something REAL.
Since the topic of translation is what I plan on doing for my final exam as well, this is really great news to me. As it is now, I'm happy with it.


I originally wanted to write about a few more things, but I seem to have lost my train of thought.
Oh yeah. Despite everything university still sucks. But I guess not as much as it still did a few days ago... (anger sometimes turns into motivation, right?) Let's see what the rest of the week has in store for me.

If amazon.de didn't lie to me, I should be receiving "Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days" tomorrow morning. That's something I've been looking forward to since last week. I love SquarEnix' works.

Title: Maleppa
Author: Kei.C
Rating: PG
Characters: Sho
Genre: Drama
Warnings: sad
Summary: Sho reflects on the city he was born in
Disclaimer: I make no money with this and the characters belong to themselves... or to Gackt

( Maleppa was my playground )

Yeah, excuse the lame wordplay, but I couldn't come up with a better one so...
Anyway. Yesterday I managed to get a few decent shots of my two sweethearts and I wanted to share some of them.

( KeiとSho )

I translated the interview with Hyde from the Monthly VAMPS 12 issue. It's under the section "Break H's Taboo" and they always ask him about a special topic. This time the topic was "love" and thus really interesting. Hyde talks about things like his first date (cuteness ahead!) and what he likes in a girl.
There are some WTF-Hyde-moments as well, but overall he's just adorable. And I like his answers much more than I would have liked Gackt's. Ahem. Whatever.
Enjoy.

( Could you tell me your view regarding love? )

NOTE: Please DON'T post this elsewhere without my permission.

tilly_07 asked me to translate this and she kindly provided a transcription of the interview which made things a lot easier for me. Thank you very much.
Please note that this is only half of the interview. Questions 1-83 are missing.
And now, enjoy:

( August 2007 Junon 139 Questions Interview )


I'll post a Hyde-related translation later on. ;D

I just got my copy of the book!!!
Guess what I'll be doing for the rest of this week~
Oh no, I will still work on translations and post them. The first will be up later today or tomorrow. Depends.
Either way, you have something to look forward to.

... that the movie was shown in German cinemas!!! And I didn't notice!!!
It was released back in July...
How stupid can I possibly be?!



...THAT stupid!
GAH, I MISSED IT! *cries*
At least it will have a German DVD release... I was tempted to buy the UK version, but now I'll wait for the German release date.
GAH. SAD. I would have loved to watch it in a cinema!! This seriously bugs me now. I can't believe it!! How could I miss that?!?! I feel so stupid...

Btw, I love how the only word they failed to translate into German is "outlaw". LOL



On a side note: "Requiem" is on its way. Yay.

I was working on a translation yesterday, but somehow grew tired of it and then ended up searching infos on the new Resident Evil movie, which is scheduled for a release next year. That was pretty much all I could find about it, since filming hasn't even started yet. But one thing is for sure, it will be set in Japan and Milla Jovovich will take the leading role of Alice again. I hadn't really expected anything else. Milla is cool and all, but I wish there was a bit more of the original RE characters for a change... But that's Hollywood.
Stealing ideas from all over Asia and screwing them up.

Anyway. I somehow found myself on a website for Asian movie reviews and got stuck there for a few... hours? There seem to be SO many great movies. And for half of it the reviews said: A Hollywood remake is in planning. Sometimes, I hate Hollywood.
But that was not what I was originally getting at. I could write a whole novel about how much Hollywood remakes suck, but Gackt already did a great job of it in his blog so why should I bother?
What I really wanted to say is: Yesterday, I watched a lot of the movies, that were reviewed on that site. I had fun watching, most of them were pretty cool, but one stood really out for me.



The Good, The Bad, The Weird.
That movie was just pure awesomeness. I haven't seen such a great Asian movie since Moon Child! (also, talking about Moon Child could lead to another novel length essay, so I will just leave it at this: Despite all its flaws I LOVE it and it's my favourite movie. Period.)
Although "The Good, Bad, Weird" is not exactly a drama, but more of an action-comedy in western-style, it never takes things too far, never to the point where you would roll your eyes and think "this is way over the top". It isn't. And that's why it appeals to me so much.
The movie is set in 1930s Manchuria (Northeast China) and tells a story about a killer (the bad, obviously), a bounty hunter (the good, who would have thought that?), a thief (who is really weird) and a map. What did the headline of the movie say again? "Three men. One map. Winner takes all." ... or something like that.
All three men are Korean, who along many others fled from Korea to China, to escape the oppression by the Japanese in their homeland.
Here's a short summary of the story: The thief (the weird) robs a train on which a very important Japanese bank clerk happens to be riding. From him he obtains a map, which he thinks is quite useless since it's written in Russian. But when the train is suddenly stopped and attacked by a group of bandits, the thief takes the map with him in a hurry and escapes from the train.
The group of bandits is led by the killer (the bad), who got paid to steal the map, the thief just stole. Much LOLing there because just when he enters the train with his men, the thief starts the train again and then jumps off, leaving the killer trying to shoot him from the rolling train. He gets to shoot at the thief two times, before he himself is being shot at. By the bounty hunter (the good), who had been waiting on the train for him. The bounty hunter is paid by the Chinese army to get the "finger chopper", a brutal killer (who chops off the fingers of his victims, obviously). So the Good thinks that the Bad is the killer he is after and the Bad is after the map, the thief just snatched from under his nose.
It really is everyone against everyone, which is SO much fun. Not to mention that the Japanese army and some Chinese bandits are after the map, too. So there's much action and chaos ahead, which is presented in a stylish and clever way.
Especially the finle showdown is awesome. But I don't want to spoil anything. Please, go watch it for yourselves. It really is a great movie. And even though it hints at being a comedy, the characters are always authentic and never lose the serious air about them. That's especially important for The Bad character. Because even when he's tricked by the weird thief, he never comes across as being stupid. He's always 100% the dangerous killer that he's supposed to be, no matter what situation he's in.

Gah, and here I go. Yep, I liked The Bad the most. xD He was just too cool for his own good. Not to mention that he plays his insane moments just like Gackt plays his. They both move their eyes the same way. I was amazed.
Anyway. The Bad is played by Lee Byung-hun, a Korean actor, who also plays the white ninja in G.I.Joe and the "villain" in "I come with the rain". That was also the first time I saw him. In the trailer for "I come with the rain" together with Josh Hartnett and Kimura Takuya. Whoa, all three in one movie. Now I have to watch it even more badly than I ever did.
But I recognized his face instantly when I watched G.I.Joe a while ago. "Hey, that's the guy from I come with the rain!", but that was all I could really say about him then. Oh, and his performance is the only thing that could make me watch the movie again. That, and Brendan Fraser's guest appearance. xD
But that aside, I really like his acting. And there are two more movies I watched in the past, without knowing who he was: Bittersweet Life (which I REALLY liked) and JSA - Joint Security Area (a movie about the military situation between North and South Korea, the message the movie carried was really touching, but it wasn't carried out that well, unfortunately).
Now I really can't wait for "I come with the rain" any longer... It just keeps getting better and we won't get to see it... That's just frustrating.
Another thing that frustrates me is that I can't buy "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" on DVD because it's Region3... Did I mention that I hate this stupid region system?! I HATE it.

Whoa! I had no intention to make this entry novel-length, but well... All I really wanted to say was: I watched that movie and it was GREAT and everyone else should watch it, too. That is, if you like Asian movies. You can watch it here with English subtitles: http://www.dramacrazy.net/v/korean-movie/the-good-the-bad-and-the-weird/
I'll probably watch it again tonight, because I like it THAT much.

I just bought Gackt's novel "Requiem"~~!

*anxious*

I was asked to translate the intro movie of the RRII concert, so I thought I'd give it a try. However I ended up working on it for more than two weeks and it gave me more than one sleepless night, I can tell you.
There are parts in the monologue that are not written on the screen and because my Japanese listening comprehension is not the best I had to do this based on what I THINK is being said. I watched the movie again and again and worked my whole translation over and over. There are still things I'm not pleased with or am insecure about, but because I spent so much time and effort on this (and obviously know all the lines by heart now), I can't work on this any longer and will post it now as it is.
So here are my transcription and translations of the intro movie:

( Japanese )

( English )

( German )


And here is what Gackt said right before some of the songs:

( Uncontrol )

( Flower )

( Kimi no tame ni dekiru koto )



NOTE: Please, don't post any of this elsewhere without my permission. Also, I don't mind criticism as long as you convey it in a friendly way. Thank you.

I'm back.
I'm happy to be back. And I'm not happy. I would've liked to stay longer. But it's always like that, isn't it?
Maybe I'll post a few photos later.

Anyway. I worked on a few translations and fanfictions but I didn't get to finish most of it. Fortunately, I have a little bit time left until university starts again, so I'll try to finish all of it.
Oh, I almost forgot! I passed all my exams and I'm super happy now.

Aaaaaaaand I just found "Requiem" on ebay again! I knew I'd get another chance, yay! I can't buy it before Monday, but just to know that it's there is really good. I guess it's not as hard to get as I thought.

Well then. I'll try to post something later. If not, tomorrow. ^^

Okay, last entry before I'm leaving tomo--today.
It's just for three weeks, but I know I'll miss out on a few things. How I hate to catch up with everything later... Whatever. Can't be helped.
Doesn't sound like it, but I'm really really looking forward to the next three weeks. I'm leaving for my paradise after all. ^^

Well then. Bye, everyone~ Have a good time~ (I know I will xD)

And Dear, I hope you'll be alright.

Because of all those exams going on the past month I failed to translate Kanata's latest entries. And since I'll leave on Sunday and be away for the next three weeks I thought I had to do it at least now.
So here you go:


( 2009/07/03 )




( 2009/07/23 )



I'm actually waiting for a new entry in the staff room, but it seems that he doesn't have any projects going on currently.
Btw, I watched "Aoi Tori" and "GOTH" the other day. I really liked Aoi Tori, but as for GOTH, it didn't really appeal to me. And Kanata's acting was a lot better in Aoi Tori anyway.


That aside, I thought about buying Gackt's novel "Requiem". I tried to look for it, but I had no luck. Not on Amazon and not on YesAsia. Does anyone know where I can find it? I'd really like to have it. ... Haha, when it was still available I thought I could never read it anyway and decided against buying it. And look at me now, I'm searching for it, because I want to read it!
It would be cool if someone could help me find a copy of the book.

EDIT: I found the book on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com.my/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320398314803 but it's too late for me to get it. I'm leaving tomorrow. *sigh*
Would anyone be willing to get it and hold it for me until I'm back? I'm afraid you have to have a paypal account though... (also if you can't get it, just don't worry about it ^^) I'm sure there'll be other chances.