Oh! Deer

last friday i watched these 2 films. Departures i saw at the cinema and I don't think there was a dry eye in the audience for most of the film, for laughing and crying equally... a lady in my row alternated between laughing out loud and uncontrollable sobbing. brilliant. Tokyo Sonata is in the same vein as Sabu or Kitano maybe - in it's banality and eventual crazy route to profundity... I really like this kind of film

both left me with the desire to cook more japanese food, get a rice cooker, and collect more crockery