Cinema Paradiso
Trip Start
Oct 03, 2008
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17
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Trip End
Oct 19, 2008
Osaka,
Kinki,
Japan
Saturday, October 18, 2008
As this blog has been morosely, passably skipping along with a distinct lack of filmic references since I first began, allow me to relay our viewing experiences. The evening began with recent Robin Williams political flop Man of the Year. Don't worry, you haven't heard of it. I hadn't even heard of it. Some Germans picked it and it wasn't great. Our man on the street (Kirill) review: "crap".
After losing the Germans and claiming the room for ourselves we proceeded to bigger, better things with forgotten Tom Hanks classic Joe Versus The Volcano. Seriously, seek it out. It's great. Man on the street: "can we watch The Matrix".
Better still was the not-yet-forgotten Tom Hanks modern classic Road To Perdition. It upset me because I forgot Paul Newman was dead. Man on the street: "good"
After waking up hungover and with a strange hankering for further Tom Hanks comedy films (The Burbs wouldn't go amiss right now) we headed to the 5th Station which is a bus stop halfway up Mount Fuji. Despite the bitter cold of being up a mountain (who knew?) we did get some far superior photos this time around.
Unfortunately time constraints meant that we only had time for a few pictures and a sausage on a stick before catching the bus back down and commencing the quite frankly, ludicrously long, trip back across Japan to Osaka.
We are sadly now on our final night in Japan but there is a neat symmetry as we have ended up not only back at the first hostel we stayed in, but the same room too. I promise this blog is near its end but, unfortunately, I've already made the disturbing decision to do one more entry when I get home. Just so my pin map looks good you understand.
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snoresville
how do you spell that in Japanese?