Tegami (2006)

I watched "Tegami" today because I heard it was a great movie. I saw the download link a year ago but I didn't download it because I thought it was a typical love story between 2 guys and 1 girl. Until I read the summary of and some comments about this movie.

Although the movie was kind of moving at a slow rate and hardly a lot of talking but it wasn't boring at all. The bond between Nao and Tsuyoshi was touching, the elder brother Tsuyoshi loved his little brother so much and the little brother Nao hated his brother for being a murder which maked him lost his job and girlfriend.

It's not actually sad at all but I was crying towards the end where his brother wrote the last letter to Ogata-san.

So overall I think this movie is great!

Summary: Focuses on two brothers who lost their parents when they were younger. The older brother works exhaustingly hard to earn enough money to send his younger brother to college. One day the older brother breaks into a house to get money for tuition and he accidentally kills an old woman. From here the younger brother’s tragic fate begins. Everything he has starts to slip away–his house, job, dream and lover–everything. But his older brother keeps sending letters regularly to tell of his life in jail. It is difficult to cut the bonds of brotherhood and he struggles to get out of his abyssal reality. Finally he meets a woman who saves him from his crisis. When he is in a threatening situation in which he is about to lose his small happiness with her he decides to cut the “vicious chain of letters” which are being sent from inside of the walls of prison.

w-inds. Live Tour 2007 "Journey"

After waiting for 10 or more days my DVD finally arrived in front of my door, I was so scared that it might be lost since I never more than 10 days.
So here's another DVD to my w-inds. collection. When I was looking at the DVD, the DVD has printed part of the world map on it. I was so happy to see my country's map Australia printed on the DVDs.

A little review or thoughts about this concert.

The concert was great but I can't say it's the best they can do. There wasn't anything special and most of them were no difference with a live they perform at CDTV or Music Fighter.
I really hope they could more than just dancing and singing, I missed Keita playing the piano and Ryuichi playing the guitar.

The stage was smaller this time, in there other concerts they had a long stage that reach the middle of the audience, but this time they didn't do that so it looked like there was more audience.

Opening
The opening they show footages of their past concert on the VTR.

01. THIS IS OUR SHOW
A world globe appeared in the middle of the upper stage and it opens up and w-inds. were already positioned. The three of them wore a red coat and hat and started singing. I must say they love red so much in every single concert they wore red.
After singing the first song they took off the coat and inside they wore a stripe shirt with a vest which I really like.

02. Boogie Woogie 66
Maybe Keita is so used having a hat on that he couldn't change the how his hand position on the hat. But during Boogie Woogie 66 he took the hat off and I spotted that his hand was position on the hat where he didn't even had a hat on.

03. New Paradise
It's been a while since they last sang New Paradise, nothing different or special about it.

04. Another Days
This is another song which they haven't sang for a long time.

Bridge
05. Top Secret
They changed costume into white jacket with black tank top and Keita wore a white hat again, I it's the one he wore during the Hong Kong performance.
I don't find this surprising because they have performed this song quiet a number of times already.

06. Crazy for You
Same goes for Crazy for You, they have performed a couple of times which is no different.

07. Devil
This is the first time I see them performing Devil live I quiet like this song even though I hardly listen to it.
Somehow during this song Keita reminds me of MJ (I guess it's mostly because of the hat). I find the choreography during the chorus was weird, the movement is small and it's only hand movement.
Dance Corner
The first one to come out was Keita wearing a black top tank which was worn inside his white jacket before. The repeat slow motion really takes in effect for this and I really like it. More than dancing I think Keita was just showing off his muscles, but ever since he got more muscular his dancing has more power to it.

Ryuichi's dance was rather normal probably the most wow thing was his back flip which I've seen many times before.

And Ryohei, not so surprise that he's doing breaking. Seen ryohei doing breaking nth times already so it didn't wow me.

The dance corner was rather short. I was hoping for a group dance with some cool choreography but no that was it.

08. Is that you
I forgot that w-inds. has this song when I first heard it because the last time I was listening to their "Journey" album was ages ago.
There's really nothing special about this performance but there's just a feeling where you can't move your eyes somewhere else.
I liked how Keita appeared wearing a black shinny jacket and hat, and all there is was just a mic stand and spotlight. The move he did with the mic stand was rather cool.
Ryohei and Ryuichi appeared half way through the song but they weren't as cool as Keita with the mic stand.



09. Hanamuke

10. Message
I love this song, this song was one of my favorite in the album. The scene of them sitting on the red sofa was nice and Keita sang really good with a lot of emotions.

11. TRIAL

12. Tooikioku

13. LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING

14. It's in the Stars

15. Try your emotion
This song was sing in most concert, it's a great song to get the audience high as it's a song where most people know the lyric.

ENCORE 1
16. Feel the Fate
I don't really like their shirt for this concert, it's too simple. But during Feel the Fate there's a part where Ryuichi and Ryohei sang solo.
The tension was high as everyone sang along with Keita.

17. Kireida

18. Forever Memories

ENCORE 2
19. Shiki
Not Shiki again. I've heard this song sang live a zillion of times. Although the song is nice but I got bored of the performance.

20. Fire Flower
Fire Flower puts everyone so high and once music is played all the fans got out their towel and started swinging it, it's like a must when they perform this song. This song is not great to listen but it's great for performing live.
They were throwing towels to the audience and funny is Keita was wiping his sweat with it and you don't know how much fangirls wanted that towel.
Keita's voice started to crack and it was really bad but he kept on singing until the very last just hope this won't damage his vocal.
Ryuichi started playing the guitar during the end of the song and right at the end because everyone was so high from a distance I see Ryuichi swinging he guitar towards the floor and it became 2 pieces. So I thought "Was that necessary? What a waste!"

AAA 2nd Anniversary Live ~5th ATTACK 070922~ Nippon Budokan

It's been awhile since I've posted here.
I've just finish watching AAA's 5th Attack DVD, this is also their last attack.
I have to say this concert is their best so far, performing at Budokan a bigger stage makes the concert more better.

This is my little review on the concert after watching (I'm very forgetful so I'm typing this right after I finished it).

01. Kuchibiru Kara Romantica
Can't believe they started off the concert with this song because usually in concerts they start off with a heat beating fast song. I love the masks they all wore it really hate such a effect for the song and performance.

02. Paradise Paradise
It's their first time performing this song live and also the first time I see it live. There wasn't anything special about the dance or anything but what caught my attention was during the 2nd verse when it's Chiaki's line, she and Nissy, looks like she's humping Nissy (I don't want to use the word 'humping' but there's no other word I could think of).

03. VIRGIN F

05. ACT CORNER
This act corner was what I was looking forward to when I first saw photos of 5th Attack. The scenes Nissy and Misako holds hand and almost kissed and the unforgettable moment of Nissy and Hidaki kiss.
Out of all Acts this Act is the best simply because it has a really simple story which I understands and it's fun to watch. There's not much talking (which is a good thing because I don't understand) and the songs matches the storyline. I think I would cut out this Act and put it in my ipod so that I can watch it over and over again.

-Friday Party
This is best for crowds, Misako was so cute when she's trying to get Nissy's attention but Nissy was looking the other way. During Friday Part Nissy and Misako was so cute! They were leaning against each other and the way they smile at each other was priceless.

-Deai no Chikara
The end part reminds me of when they sing this during 2nd Attack, they could've kissed if Shinjiro didn't confess to Misako.

-Hanabi
The girls were singing Hanabi and the guys at the back were lighting up hanabi which I thought was really cool.

-No End Summer
Hahaha, I liked the part where Nissy was jealous because Misako and Shinjiro were having fun throwing ball and Misako went up to Nissy and giving him the ball.

-Chewing Gum
-Deai no Chikara II
When they first sang Deai no Chikara I thought "Why didn't they hold hands?" finally in Deai no Chikara II they were holding hands.
When they were trying to kiss it was so cute and at the end Nissy kissed Hidaka, Nissy's expression was funny. He first was enjoying the kiss and when he finds out it's Hidaka he keeps on wiping his mouth.

06. Get Chu!
I liked how when they just kissed they sang Get Chu! and Nissy once again wiped his mouth while singing it.

07. Shalala Kibou no Uta
They sang this as a ballad song, the lead vocal went to Chiaki and Misako (but more of Chiaki). I think I like the original version more.
08. Kirei na Sora
This was also sang as a ballad and the main vocals were the guys. Everyone singing has improved especially Shuta, I still remember when I first heard him singing a solo part in Hurricane Riri, Boston Mari ~Original long version~ it was horrible.
09. Wonderful Life

10. Us

11. Body Talker
The chorus dance part was pretty easy I think if they performed this again the fans would probably dance along with them.

Dance Corner
It started off with Hidaka doing a little dance and introducing this section. The Shinjiro appears sitting on a chair and expected it was his usual moves again, I think he needs to learn new moves. The Misako appear holding a gun and there's a couple of English lines said and gun shooting sounds. The part where she puts her gun in her pants seem a bit ero but I'm sure a lot of guys will enjoy it. Urata and his swinging-stick performance, it wasn't that bad but it was just a little too short. The it was Chiaki and her spinning and swinging dance moves, then it was Shuta's turn. He was wearing a tank top and a cap which reminds me of American artist like Usher or something, the only unforgettable scene was when he ripped his shirt and the crowd was all screaming. Last was Nissy as expected he did break dancing, sometimes I can't believe a guy who look like that can break dance. His breaking wasn't a disappointment and because I rarely see him do that move (other than in Hallelujah PV) it wasn't boring at all.

12. BLOOD on FIRE

13. That's Right

14. Climax Jump

15. SUNSHINE

16. ENCORE
-SHE no Jijitsu
-Winter lander!!
-Hurricane Riri, Boston Mari (Original long version)
-Saigo no Kotoba

There's so much about this concert which I couldn't express you just have to watch it.