A really good movie :)

Hi all.. I can't believe it myself too. It's now very late and I'm eating my "dinner" while typing this entry. Actually I juz came back from a mid-night show and the "dinner" was the food I packed home earlier. I was intending to eat it around 11 plus (yes.. it was late cos I went out with Reiko earlier), but then my brother suddenly came into my room and asked me if I wanna go for mid-night movie. If not the extra ticket would be wasted..

I was really quite tired cos woke up early and did quite a bit of walking. And my brother told me the movie was about terrorism. I was thinking: "huh.. so boring. I'll most prob sleep in the cinema". So we rushed out of the house (only gave me 10 min advance notice.. but my brother bought me hotdog bun combo so I was delighted). Furthermore, when I started watching, I got a feeling it was not too bad. Not those history kind la. Scared myself.

Yup. The movie I watched is 《20th Century Boys》aka 《20世紀少年》。Here's a sypnosis copied from GV website.

1969 was a special year for Japan. It was a year before Expo '70, an event that marked Japan's progress and bright future. It was also the year that men first stood on the Moon. Everything indicated a path towards a promising future.

In the summer of 1969, Kenji was an elementary schoolboy. He built a secret base in a vacant lot with his friends Otcho, Maruo, Yoshitsune, Mon-chan, Donkey, Yukiji and Fukube. One of their secret activities included writing in the Book of Prophecy. In their Prophecy, the children fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world, bringing about doomsday.

Years later in 1997, Kenji is the manager of a convenience store. He's given up his dream to be a rock star and has chosen to live a regular life, looking after his sister's baby girl Kanna after his sister has disappeared for an undisclosed reason. His boring life is turned upside down one day when his old classmate, Donkey dies mysteriously and then an entire family in the neighborhood disappears.

At the same time, there's a lot of talk about a religious cult and its mysterious leader, the Friend. A strange chain of events follow, which exactly duplicate the events described in the Book of Prophecy. Kenji and his former classmates are shocked to learn this horrible truth. If things are happening exactly as described in the Book of Prophecy, then the Friend's intention is to fulfill the doomsday prophesy. And the Friend is most likely one of the kids they used to play with...

Who? While this is all going on, God, a homeless old man with psychic ability, prophesies that Kenji will be playing a pivotal role in the evil scheme that will bring an end to humanity. As the events in the Book of Prophecy unfold in their lives, Kenji and his former classmates decide to take on the villain.

But the cunning Friend frames Kenji and his gang so people believe that they are a group of terrorists. Time passes and now it's December 31, 2000. This is the day described in the Book of Prophecy as the day of mankind's demise. "With horrible, earth-shattering footsteps, the shadow of terror arrives in Tokyo. It's their atomic-powered Gigantic Robot! It walks on Earth, spitting out a deadly virus and treading on anything standing. Will we survive to see the 21st Century? The destiny of mankind is now on the verge of doom!"

The whole movie is in Japanese but I have no problem catching up with the story by seeing the subtitles. So I strongly recommend u all to watch. Personally I think it's better than Death Note cos it stimulates thinking (Death Note fan no offence!)

But the stupid villain in the movie kept hiding his identity and wore a really annoying mask which looked like MOnkey la. Then would repeat: "kenji.. let's play together" something like that loh. Then my brother will keep on repeating it and we both laughed that we will have nightmare after that.

The spoiler is that there's Part 2! And it stopped at the most exciting part. It also mixes with humour and the little girl in the movie is so cute too.

Those who like suspense, good v.s. evil story.. it's a must-watch!

Trailer:



Ok.. I tot I could learn a few Jap words. But I even forgot what's friend when it was repeated many times! haha.

good show!

Mango~