The Boy and the Heron (2023) Review

Mahito a young boy who during the war loses his mother and must then move to the family estate in the countryside away from Tokyo. He then must deal with a new stepmother and a mysterious grey heron that had been following him around, heading into an ancient tower will change everything as he knows it.

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*Original title: Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka*

Subbed version

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Recreating the Movie – Bullet Train

That’s right as part of my Tokyo trip I managed to have a day on the Bullet Train heading from Tokyo to Kyoto for a day out. The Bullet Train really is incredible!

Recreating the Movie – Godzilla!

That’s right here’s a very especial Recreating the Movie from my trip to Japan in Tokyo. Godzilla was just a couple of streets away from my hotel in Shinjuku.

Lost in Translation (2003): A Masterpiece

Released in 2003 or the 9th January 2004 in the UK to be exact. Meant at that point I was only 16 years old and in my first year at college. Although I am not fully sure the first time I watched Lost in Translation, maybe later in 2004? So I was possibly 17 and quite frankly I did not like the film on that first viewing. BUT that makes sense now really in hindsight at that age nothing at happened to me and it wouldn’t be until years later that I would make a full connection with this film and fully realise just how much of a masterpiece it really is.

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Bullet Train (2022) Review

When five assassins all end up on board a fast moving bullet train from Tokyo they begin to realise that capturing the case they have been tasked with might not actually be that easy after all.

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The Karate Kid Part II (1986) Review

When Mr Miyagi finds out his father is dying he heads back to his childhood home in Okinawa, with Daniel along for the trip with his mentor. Myagi must face a former friend turned rival and Daniel falls in love and makes his own new rival.

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Lost in Translation (2003) Review

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Bob Harris is a faded movie star who is in Tokyo to film a whiskey ad for the Japanese market. Staying in the same hotel is a young twenty something woman Charlotte is left on her own while her husband a photographer is working. The pair form a very unlikely bond and friendship when they really needed it the most.

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