A new animation in 2007
The new animation movie Paprika looks nice. Here is the trailer, it will be released in 2007. The original story is a SF novel of Yasutaka Tsutsui. I like him. My favorite one is "Zanzo ni kuchibeni wo" (Lipstick for the After Image) in which the 50 Japanese kana syllables disappear one by one as the story advances; they're not in the story, he doesn't use the kana in the book either.
I found this funny music video "Madan" of singer T.M.revolution. All performer's dialogue are the lyric of Madan. So it might be said a pantomime, we can understand the story with ther performance easily. Pleae check it, it's funny. In the end the message on the sweater is "To my dad". By the way, If you are Gundam fan, you may know his "Ignited" which is the theme of Gundam seed. He is the ex husband of PUFFY Yumi.
Whoa! Paprika looks good!
Posted by: Chris | Monday, July 24, 2006 at 04:57 AM
Hi Josee
Yes dialects are understanble for me, because in most case, only the ending of a word is different. Some dialects have different word for something. But it doesn't bother much.
Posted by: Mari | Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 01:24 PM
Hi Mari,
I have a question on dialects in Japan. As a Japanese, do you need to actually learn the dialect to understand it? Or as a Tokyolite, you are actually able to understand some of what the dialect speaker is talking about without learning it?
I am curious because in China, most dialects are unintelligible to one another speaker. Is this the case in Japan?
Regards
Posted by: Josee | Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 12:51 AM