1 Litre no Namida OST

Information
Title: 1 Litre no Namida / １リットルの涙 / 1 Litre of Tears
Artist: Susume Ueda
Genre: Instrumental
Record Company:
No. of Tracks: 23 + 3 extra
Drama: Ichi Rittoru no Namida

Track Listing
1 Litre no Namida (theme song)
Hurdle o Koete
Anata ga Oshiete Kureta Mono
Yasashisa ni Tsutsumarete
Anji
Sunadokei
Kimi e no Long Pass
Rakujitsu
Shinobi yoru Byouma
Furiaogeba Aoi Sora
Namida no Imi
Senkoku
Mou Utaenai
Te o Nobaseba Anata ga
Kunou no Senritsu
Nagare na Danran
Sagashite Goran
Nigiyaka no Danran
Toumei na Sekai
Seimei Aru Kagiri (sub theme)
Only Human (Piano version)
Konayuki (Piano version)
Only Human (Cello version)

Not featured on official OST:
Only Human by K (theme song)
Konayuki by Remioromen (Aya & Haruto's theme)
3gatsu 9ka by Remioromen (sung by the class at the vocal contest)

Miyuki Nakajima - Genki desu ka (2006)

Singer：Miyuki Nakajima
Album：Genki desu ka
Style：JPop
Release：2006-06-14

Description
「ファイト!」「世情」「元気ですか」・・・中島みゆきの作り出す「勇気」「希望」を与えてくれる曲を集めたコンピレーション・アルバムがリリース!!
「元気ですか」をキーワードにちっぽけな自分を認めてくれる人生の応援歌集。同時発売のカヴァー・コンピレーション集と聞き比べる事によって中島みゆきの曲自身の持つ普遍性と魅力を感じ取る事ができる。
※収録曲はカヴァー・コンピレーション集と同じ曲、曲順になります。

Tracklisting
M1. 糸 (Ito)
M2. 狼になりたい
M3. 時代 (Jidai)
M4. 化粧
M5. 空と君のあいだに (Sora to kimi no aida ni)
M6. 「元気ですか」
M7. アザミ嬢のララバイ
M8. 世情
M9. ファイト!
M10. 後悔
M11. ヘッドライト・テールライト
M12. 恋文

A DOG IN THE SIDECAR a.k.a. Saido ka ni inu

Cast:
Yuko Takeuchi
Arata Furuta
Kana Matsumoto
Yusuke Iseya
Yosuke Kawamura

Kaoru (Matsumoto Kana) is just a normal girl living with her annoying brother (Taniyama Takeru), harried mom (Suzuki Sawa, Loft), and languid dad (Furuta Arata, Hana), until one day her mom just ups and leaves. Soon after her dad's new girlfriend Yoko (Takeuchi Yuko) comes strolling in. Kaoru isn't sure what to make of Yoko, who is brash, forward, good-humored, and at times downright uncouth. As the summer passes day by day, a unique friendship forms between them and Kaoru opens her eyes to a new, exciting world, even as reality begins to catch up. Based on Nagashima Yu's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel.

Festivals/Awards
Kinema Junpo Award 2008: Winner, “Best Actress” (Yuko Takeuchi)
Nikkan Sports Film Awards 2008: Winner, “Best Actress” (Yuko Takeuchi)
17th Japan Movie Critics Award: Winner, “Best Actress” (Yuko Takeuchi)
Yahoo! Japan Katteni Movie Awards: Winner, “Best Actress” (Yuko Takeuchi)
Osaka Movie Press Club Awards: Winner, “Best Actress” (Yuko Takeuchi)
31th Fumiko Yamaji Awards: Winner, “Best Actress” (Yuko Takeuchi)

Malena 2000

Country: Italy USA
Released Date: 2000
Language: Italian | Sicilian | English | Latin
Subtitles: English | Chinese
Genre: Adult | Drama
Video Format | Size: MP4 | 303M
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, ...

The film is set in Sicily in 1940 during World War II just as Italy enters the war. Malena's husband, Nino Scordia, leaves to serve in the military. The silent, distractingly beautiful outsider learns one day that her husband has been killed. Malena feels sad and tries to cope with her loss, as the town she has just moved to tries to deal with this beautiful woman who gets the attention and lustful stares of all the local men, including the 12-year-old Renato. However, in spite of the villagers' gossip, she continues to be faithful to her husband. Renato becomes obsessed with Malena and starts fantasizing about her while masturbating.

Renato continues to watch as she suffers from loneliness and grief. Malena is shunned by the townspeople and the unattractive, jealous women of the Italian village, who begin to believe the worst about her, simply because of her beauty.


Watching online:

La Belle 2000

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Aruitemo, Aruitemo

Aruitemo, Aruitemo a.k.a Still Walking a.k.a Even if you walk and walk [2008]

Director:Hirokazu Koreeda (AKA Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Writers:Hirokazu Koreeda (AKA Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Country: Japan
Year: 2008
Runtime: 108 min.
Genre: Drama more

Imdb review:
"Still Walking" aka "Aruitemo Aruitemo" Yet another superb delivery from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda who gave us "Nobody Knows" in 2004. It's like we're eavesdropping on a private family reunion event. Central to the story is from the viewpoint of the second son, Ryota at age 40, going home to his parents' house via public transport with his new wife, a widow, and her 10 year old son from previous marriage. Yes, he doesn't own a car like his sister and brother in law. He's actually wary about hiding the fact that he doesn't have a substantial job and asks his wife not to breathe a word at the family occasion. His parents will be disappointed, especially his father who has counted on the second son to take on the family medical clinic business and be a doctor rather than any other trade - since the eldest died 15 years ago. Ryota has 'imprisoned' himself by these expectations which he is unable to, and frankly does not want to, fulfill. Underneath the pleasant bantering with his mother, we can tell he is struggling to find himself, make peace with himself and go on with his life.

20th century boys 1: Beginning of the End

• Running time: 2CD 1h 13' x 2
• Vintage: 2008-08-30
• Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
• Total size: 2CD 698MB x 2
• Casting:
Airi Taira as Endo Kanna
Etsushi Toyokawa as Occho
Toshiaki Karasawa as Endo Kenji
• Sub: Eng-sub
Imdb review:
Could 20th Century Boys be the Japanese Watchmen? Like in the case of Alan Moore's masterpiece, Urasawa's sprawling story covers the cultural myths and obsessions of the past century: from the nuclear catastrophe following the war to the western cultural influences, conformism and totalitarian tendencies, the demilitarized, defenseless Japan, the economic boom of the sixties . Even a touch of mecha and the pervasiveness of media in society.

Judging the movie, however, can be more difficult: its competently shot and acted, but like most transpositions, it makes its manga origin very clear, which can be appalling for the manga-illiterate in the audience, which at the projections I was sighed, left early or giggled in all the wrong places. Sound editing was awful, but it might be a result of the copy I saw.

Where the film could use some help is in the editing. Fans will appreciate the attempt to be faithful to the original source, but movies simply work in a different way: act II is too long, and the final climax and resolution is reduced to a few choppy scenes. It might definitely look better when parts 2 and 3 are released.