June 8th
Today, I did not have a part-time job and had nothing to do, so I rent some DVD from TUTAYA and enjoyed watching it. These free times are really precious for me. By the way, the title is “The Wife of Viyon.” This movie was released in 2009, but its original story was written by Osamu Dazai in 1950. Do you know him? I am sure that he is well-known modern literary author among all ranges of agers in Japan. “The wife of Viyon” is minor literary work and not so many people are familiar with it, but how about “Hashire merosu” or “Rashomon.”? May be some of you studied and read it when you were the high school students during the modern Japanese classes. The vocabulary and writing style of his literary works are very difficult, but they are really sophisticated. Now, I read only English literary works because my major is the English and American literary. However, I think that reading Japanese thing is also important to deepen the knowledge of literary. From now on, I want to read more Japanese one if I have a time. Let’s move on to the movie topic. This is the story about love story. Its main actors are Takako Matu who acts “Sachi” in the film and Tadanobu Asano who acts “Otani” in the film. Both actors are one of the most famous and great top performers in Japan. It is not too much to

say that anyone cannot play the role of “Sachi” and “Otani” except them. The outline of this story is... sorry, I really want to introduce you in my own words, but it is faster for you to watch this VTR than to read my explanation. So please watch it! Here is the rough outline of this movie. If you have a time, please watch it!