Last weekend was our first visit to the cinema in a loooong time. We went to Ikebukuro, met up with our friend, and headed to Sunshine Cinema Complex. The reason we visited the cinema was the screening of the real-life action film Rurouni Kenshin. The very populair manga/anime, about the wandering swordsman in the era after the Meiji revolution, has been adapted to a real-life movie. We were very excited to see how the story (and fighting) would be directed and acted by real actors, so we were very much looking forward to our visit to the cinema.
We have watched/read the anime/manga: a perfect and most fun way to study Japanese :), so we knew the story. You can watch the movie with (English) subtitles in Roppongi, but since we knew the gist of the story, and we figured both the experience and Japanese-practice would be much better if we just watched the original (no-subtitle) version.
Without saying too much, and spoiling the story for those who do not yet know it, we can definitely say that it was a great movie, and a very good adaption from the manga. We would definitely recommend you to watch it (so those outside Japan should either wait for the international release, or the DVD (with subtitles?).
And, a good sign of our Japanese progress!, we were able to understand (most of) the Japanese in the movie. Although the bad guy could sometimes be a little hard to understand... why do evil characters always have to say their evil things in mumblings or weird slang?
Visiting the cinema in Japan is basically the same as visiting the cinema in Holland. You get your ticket at the counter, pay too much for your popcorn, sit on the seat with your number and turn off your phone before the movie starts (here almost everyone actually does turn off his phone!). The only big surprise came at the end: during the credits the lights do not go on, and everybody (still quiet) actually watched the credits with great attention.
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