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The personal weblog of Faiz Kazi: Mostly oddities in programming, life in Japan, occasionally music.

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13 Nov 2007

Tue, 13 Nov 2007

Fixed at last! (Or, 90% there)

My bicycle, which was sadly stuck at the mechanic-shop for a whole 3 weeks owing mainly to the lack of a spare part (A derailleur drop-hanger, to be precise), is now, finally road-worthy again. Or at least, almost so. So there's still a danger of the derailleur diving into the spokes like it did 3 weeks ago - but the chances, says the nice mechanic, are greatly minimized with the adjustments he's made. He was nice enough to not accept any payment until it was 'fully' fixed - i.e., after the hanger arrives. But it feels great to be cycle-borne again!
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Always "Zoku": Sanchōme no Yūhi

I just saw the sequel to Always: Sunset on Third Street (Japanese Title: 三丁目の夕日). It's as much a tear-jerker as the first part; only this time it got me wondering (and how's this for an impromtu conspiracy theory!) - if both movies, (which are based on a well-known Manga with the same name) could be part of some sort of propaganda?

In the same way that a friend (who is a researcher in Women's Studies) once explained how 'I Love Lucy' has been frequently suspected of being a 'propaganda' TV show, in how it promotes gender roles, is Sanchōme no Yūhi itself a nostalgia-packaged, public-influencing, collective viewpoint that Japanese society is better off emulating the Showa stereotypes depicted in the films?

Well, don't get me wrong, I'm a sort of Showa fan myself (package anything with a vaguely Showa feel to it, and I'll probably bite) - and despite the melodrama (Think Bollywood sans song and dance), it was fun to watch. Not the first Japanese movie I've watched fully without subtitles, but certainly the first on a big screen for me.

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