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1. はな

2. いらっしゃいませ

3. えいが

4. こんばんは

5. ともだち

6. だいがく

7. どうも

8. いく

9. これ

10. いま

 

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1. ゆめ dream

2. げんじつ reality

3. じぶん oneself

4. すき like

5. しんじる to believe

6. せかい world

7. だから so, therefore

8. はんにん criminal

9. いしき consciousness

10. じこ accident

 

Paprika is an animated movie about our society in the future where technologies are so advanced, people have invented a device that allows them to enter one’s dreams. The device was stolen and was used to take over the reality with dream scenarios. I love the animations and music in this movie. There are a lot of horror elements that are typical to this type of Japanese animation which I adore as well. 

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I initially chose this movie because it sounded similar to Parasite, a well-known thriller. This movie was about a detective and his wife who had just moved into a new neighborhood, and they found their neighbors to be rather odd. Their immediate next door neighbor especially. The ex-detective is called to help with an unsolved case that has to do with a disappearing family. As the movie progresses, their neighbor, Mr. Nishino, becomes even more creepier and entangled with the plot. The detective comes to realize that there is something off about him, but his wife becomes brainwashed by him. There are many twists and turns leading up to the ending and it is crucial to pay attention in this movie. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the ending left me satisfied , though a bit confused, as it was open-ended. Also, a character that I really liked was killed off early which was rather unfortunate. One thing I didn’t like about this movie was that it seemed a bit senseless. It seemed as though the characters did not think before they did things, and I wish there was a bit more common sense, especially since the main character is supposed to be a super smart detective. But I did really like how the detective’s case was connected to Mr. Nishino; they seemed like separate cases but they actually tied together with one another. Overall, the movie was pretty good; it was very suspenseful and successfully creeped me out.

1. Suspicious (あやしい)

2. Back (こし)

3. To plant (うえる)

4. To employ (やとう)

5. Ashtray (はいざら)

6. Fragrance (かおり)

7. Spatula (きべら)

8. To apologize (あやまる)

9. Good (よろしい)

10. to host (おもてなし)

１０知ってるの言葉:

1. Red Bean Paste (あん)

2. Past (すぎ)

3. Cherry Blossoms (桜)

4. Part-time job (アルバイト)

5. To die (死ぬ)

6.  Sad (悲しい)

7.  Bird (鳥)

8.  Hot (暑い)

9.  Cold (寒い)

10. Beautiful (きれいな)

コンメンタール: 　

私はこの映画が大好きでした。前にあんこを食べたことがありません、だからこの映画は変なお婆さんを使って、あんを作るか紹介しました。おばあさんは餡をとても微妙作って、たくさん時間を使いました。そしてそののために、あんを作るは日本の大切な伝統だと思います。また、この映画の写真がとてもきれいでした。桜と道の写真が大好きだった、そして今、日本に本当に行きたい！この話は簡単でしたが、テーマがとても複雑だと思います。この人達は違う問題があるが、彼らは同じ物を調べります、新しいスタート。そしてその新しいスタートを見つけているはとても難しいだと思ういます。でも、話の最後は女の子は高校に行って、センタろさんは彼の店を作って、変なおばあさんは普段生活を経験しました。

1. Precious ( だいじ)

2. Inverted (さかさ)

3. Brain (のう)

4. Sin (つみ)

5. Star (ほし) 

6. Accident (じご)

7. Gravity (じゅうりょく)

8. Perfect (かんぜん)

9. To protect (まもる)

10. To jump out (とびおりく)

1. Moon (月)

2. Human (人間)

3. To search (調べる)

4. Boyfriend (彼)

5. Bad (ため)

6. To help (助ける)

7. Scary (怖い)

8. To wait (まつ)

9.  To promise (約する)

　　10. To be hungry (お腹が空く)

コンメンタール:

私はこの映画がちょっと変だと思いました。話はちょっと紛らわしかったが、全体的に楽しかったです。この話の中で、地球は世界が二つあって、それらの中の一つさかさです。パテマさんは逆さ世界に住んでいますが、エージさんは平常世界に住んでいます。多い年前、人は重力の実験をして、たくさん人が死にました。エージさんのようには、いくつか人は古いの世界で残ってが、他には空に落としました。この両方子供は空に誰かを負けました、そしてそのために、彼らはとても重力を関心を持ちます。この子供は本当を見つけたいが、その仕事はとても難しくてなって、他に人は手を染める。

1. Dandelion ( たんぽぽ)

2. Affection/Love (あい)

3. To slip (すう)

4. Thin (うすい)

5. Look!/Hey! (ほら) 

6. Disciple (でし)

7. Oyster (かき)

8. Recipe (せいほう)

9. I; me (あたし)

10. Excellent (えらい)

1. Movie (映画)

2. Quiet (静か)

3. Costumer (お客さん)

4. Hat (帽子)

5. Not at all (全然)

6. Famous (有名)

7. Hungry (お腹を空かせる)

8. Beer (ビール)

9.  Same (同じ)

　　10. Absolutely (絶対に)

コンメンタール:

この映画はとても楽しかっただと思ういました。タンポポさんはこの話のメインカラクターで、彼女がラーメンの店で働きます。タンポポさんの問題はラーメンを作るが下手です。ところが、タンポポさんがゴロさんに会った時、ゴロさんは彼女にラーメン作るを助けりました。ゴロさんはたくさん友達がいるから、色々人々もタンポポさんにラーメンの製法について教えました。そしてタンポポさんはラーメン作る方を習った時、ゴロさんの友達は新しい店を建てて、たくさん人が食べにきました。そのために、私はとても幸せかったです、毎回日本の映画を見る時、泣きますから。多い日本の映画は悲しいですが、この映画がは嬉しいエンディングがありました。だから、おすすめいにありがとうございます。

On Christmas Eve, retired cyclist Gin, transgender Hana, and a girl who ran away from home, had nothing to do in a snowy night in Tokyo. At this time, they found a crying baby abandoned in the garbage dump. There is only one business card and photo of the bar in the baby's swaddling. The baby's parenthood became a mystery. Hana wanted to take in the child and named the child. But the other two people objected. So the three began their journey to find the child's parents. The happy atmosphere of Christmas Eve was accompanied by the cry of infant. The three homeless people began to find a home for the infant, but at the same time for themselves.

6.ゆめ-dream
7.おまつり-festival
8.かお-face
9.木-tree
10. いろ-color

This movie was about a girl named Miyo who had a crush on a boy named Hinode. In order to get closer to him, she receives a mask from a magical cat that allows her to turn into a cat and visit her crush. After deciding that she would be better off as a cat because she feels that she is not loved as a human, she finds that she can no longer return to her human form. At this point, she finds out that her friends and family love her the way that she is, and so she begins a quest to turn into a human again with her friends by her side. このえいがすきです。

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This is a horror film about a woman named Yoshimi Masubara who is fighting to gain custody of her daughter, Ikuko, and they are searching for an apartment to live in. They settle in an old, run down apartment, which is fine until they discover an expanding patch of water on their ceiling. The apartment above belonged to a little girl who disappeared two years ago and was never found. The mother and daughter start to have creepy encounters, such as hair in their water and a red bag (that belonged to the missing girl) showing up in different places. The ghost of the missing girl, Mokiko haunts both Ikuko and her mother–nearly drowning Ikuko and drawing her mother to the place where she died. The ending was very chilling and although there weren’t many jump scares, this movie was undoubtedly scary. このえいががすきです。おしもるいですから。

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Summary: This movie was about a young girl, Miyo, who is dissatisfied with her life. In order to escape the stress of a new mom and to catch the attention of her crush, Hinode, she turns into a cat using a mask she bought from a mask seller at a festival. Miyo switches between human and cat form for quite a while, when she decides to reveal her feelings to Hinode in human form, hoping she can be with him as a person. He is teased by classmates and rejects her, so she becomes convinced that she needs to permanently turn into a cat so she can be with him. Once a cat, however, Miyo sees how much everyone misses her, and how hard they look for her. She decides to turn back human, but she needs her face back from the mask seller. She is forced to venture into the mystic cat land, where Hinode chases her to retrieve her mask and escape back to be with Hinode forever as a person. I thought this was a very cute movie. The animation was so cute, and the premise was not something I've ever seen before, or something that an American filmmaker would make, which was so fun and refreshing. I really enjoyed this movie, I thought it handled some dark and sad themes in a very whimsical manner, without making light of them. All of the little cats were so cute too! I wish there was more time in the cat land because they were so adorable.　このえいががすきです。

こども

いっしょに

きれい

がっこう

ひめ

おしえて

ほん

きそく

こわい

へや

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とんだ：flying

さかさ：inverted

ほう：law

ほし：stars

おもて：surface

じゅうりょう：weight

くろう：trouble

すぎ：past

べつ：different

せんぞ：ancestor

Comments: Patema Inverted is an animated fantasy movie that follows two teenagers from completely different worlds. One world is underground filled with several tunnel networks while another is on the “surface”. The two characters, Patema from the underground, and Age from the surface, go on an adventure together discovering secrets and information about their worlds. Patema, a brave and curious young girl who also happens to be a princess, falls into Age’s world, where it is known as “Aiga”. There, she meets Age, an unhappy student of the nation. Age saves Patema from falling into the sky and facing the leaders of Aiga who are not happy to see Patema, a “sinner who fell into the sky”. The film is a sci-fi with different perspectives on perspectives and touches on stuff like the idea of gravity and the forces of gravity. The film even touches on friendship, different worlds, and family. It also really messes with your mind and which way is up and which way is down. 

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After a group of teenagers all die exactly one week after watching a mysterious video, a reporter, Reiko and her ex-husband, Ryuji try to decipher the video and why it’s killing people. They both watched the video, so they have 1 week to solve the mystery. They discovered that the woman in the video was named Shizuko, and she was experimented on by a man named Dr. Ikuma because she had strange abilities that allowed her to read minds. She had a daughter named Sadako who had the ability to kill people instantly. They found out that Dr. Ikuma killed Sadako by pushing her into a well, which is underneath the cabin that the teenagers stayed at. They went to the well and found Sadako's remains, believing that the curse was lifted. The movie was really creepy, especially the expression that the victims’ faces morphed into when they died. I found the ominous music to be super scary. But the story was interesting and kept me intrigued. One of the last few scenes where Sadako crawled out of the tv was extremely frightening!!このえいががすきです。こわいですから。

6.old:ふるい
7.manga:まんが
8.Father:おとさん
9. dance: おどり
10.rice:かゆ

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1.Star:ほし
2.Dream:ゆめ
3.Remember:思い出す
4.crazy:クレージー
5. celestial:てんたい
6. Occult:ちょうしぜん
7.golden hour:マジックアワ
8.memory:きおく
9. Ribbon:リボン
10. thread:いと

The film Your Name follows a girl(Mitsuah) and a boy (Taki) who gain a magical ability to swap bodies. Throughout the film they write notes to each other while they are in each other's bodies for the days. Although they swap bodies they have complications when they begin to develop romantic feelings foreach other and try to meet in person because Taki lives in Tokyo and Mitsuah lives in a small town . They then discover that they are living into two completely different timeline and Mitsuah's town was destroyed by a comet in her timeline. They discover how they must stop the comet by evacuating the town before it hit. In the end we flash forward 20 years and they ultimately forget they swapped bodies and have forgotten each other's names, until they see each other in tokyo and ask "Can I ask you, your name?" and the film ends. This film was extremely good it made me cry twice because love romance movies!

1) こうこう

2) いま

3) でんわ

4) せんせい

5) さくら

6) またね

7) ななじゅうろく

8) これ

9) ろっぴゃく

10) さんびゃく

10 Words I Don’t Know:

1) かんがい＝deep emotion/strong feelings

2) じょうし ＝boss

3) とどける = to deliver

4) まめ = beans

5) あん＝bean paste

6) ゆげ＝ steam

7) みずあめ＝a sweetener similar to corn syrup

8) みどり＝green

9) かいどり＝pet bird

10) じゆう＝freedom/free

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The film is about a Dorayaki shop owner who hired an old woman named Tokue who is able to make very good bean paste. The movie also follows a female student who is poor and debating whether she should continue into high school. Tokue has a unique way of looking at the beans, treating them almost as if they are people. I find that she is a very kind soul. The cherry blossoms at the beginning and the scenery over all was very beautiful. It was heartwarming at times, like when Tokue was helping out at the shop, but also heartbreaking, like when Tokue quit because of the rumor mill or when she was talking about when she came to live in the community where the other leprosy/Hansen Disease patients were moved to. It was strange seeing how quiet and empty the place was, as well as how it looked like a mini city set up for them. The long walk to the community emphasized how separated they were from the rest of the city.

My Neighbor Totoro

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１きょう

２あとで

３ここ

４せんせい

５あした

６ねる

７いっしょに

８みず

９おおきい

10かわ

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１キャラメル：caramel(soft candy)

２はし：bridge

３おばけ：goblin; monster; ghost

４にげ：escape

５ごくろうさま：thank you for your hard work

６さようなら：goodbye

７がんばれ：do your best

８たいいん：leaving hospital

９こげる：to burn

10おもい：heavy; weighty

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The movie is about an university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, moving into an old house to be closer to the hospital. The girls' mother, Yasuko, is recovering from a long-term illness. One day, Mei discovers two small spirits who lead her into the hollow of a large camphor tree. She befriends a larger spirit, which identifies itself by a series of roars that she interprets as "Totoro". She falls asleep atop Totoro, but when Satsuki finds her, she is on the ground. Despite many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree. Tatsuo comforts her by telling her that Totoro will reveal himself when he wants to…I was little when I watched this movie for the first time. I was so impressed by the drawing of nature in Japan. After my first watching, I was always believed that there truly are mysterious spirits like Totoro in the deep forest in my childhood. このえいがは おもしろいでした。トトロはとてもかわいいでした。わたしは このえいががすきです。