Hello Summer!! 🌞 Glad the summer season is here, and it's getting quite hot here in Minnesota. I came back from Japan on Memorial Day weekend, and it's already sweltering hot there even in mid-May. My hubby and I went to Tokyo and Kyoto, and we absolutely loved our Japan trip, perhaps one of the …
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FlixChatter Review: Perfect Days (2023) – a soulful Japanese drama about finding joy & beauty in life’s simplest moments
There’s beauty in simplicity, as the famous quote says, and German-born writer/director Wim Wenders applies that adage to this Japanese-language drama. Its protagonist Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) works as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo and the film chronicles his day-to-day life. There’s something so captivating about Hirayama’s mundane and highly regimented life that begins at …
Happy New Year!! December Viewing Recap, Reflecting on 52-Films-By-Women 2023 Challenge + Looking Forward to 2024 Movies
It's still New Year's Eve eve here in Minnesota and I'm about to drive to my friend's Great Gatsby-themed party in a couple of hours. Well, I'm not going to blog about my favorite movie scenes set on New Year's Eve, as I've already done that here. Well, I don't want my last post of …