Blog#10:Recent movies

Hi! This is Natsumi.

In this time, I will recommend you some movies in this season.
They are 恋のロンドン狂詩曲, マリーアントワネットに別れを告げて, もう一人のシェイクスピア.

Please look at these trailers.



 

 

The first movie, is the love commedy. In this novie, a little bit strange situation is happening between three couples.

 

The second movie, one girl is the heroine. She always serves for Marie Antoinette. She loves her. But when the revolution in France was happened, her fate got fall down...

 

The third movie, it is another historical mystery of William Shakespeare. In this movie, the story is based on the theory that Shakespeare is not a real great writer. Actually, one noble man wrote these novels and dramas as if he were Shekespeare.　

 

These movies seem interesting, don't they?

 

I want you to see one of them.

 

During this winter vacation, let's go to the movie theater and see the movie!



 



 





Blog#9:TED, Robots that fly

 Written by So
 At a university in Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar and his team are studying on robots. In this video, he has brought a sample of a flying quadroter. What is fascinating about this robot, is that it could fly through the air freely with just four small roters. Also, because of the light body, the robot could fly very fast. The amazing thing is that, the lab members programmed the robot to dodge obstacles automatically. By this program, it is able to control multiple robots to do different things at a time. At the end of the video, the team showed the robots play different instruments at once and make music. If this robot becomes useful, it will definitely be a great invention.

Here is the link.

Blog#9:TED

Hi!
This is Natsumi.
I watched The voices of China's workers.
In this speech, the woman journalist, Leslie searched for young Chinese girls who are working in the factory. They are forced to work in severe condition, but they don't complain about it. It is because they have a passion to work and earn money. In thier factories, they make a piece parts of iPad, or PC, and so on. She thinnks that the benefit of globalization we embrace is supported by these workers and we should consider it always. Globalization calls a lot of guilts to us in that point, and it changes these workers'lives, jobs,and marriages. Because of our demads and the benefit of globalization, they have to work in bad situation, and have to move from one factory to another factory. It can be said that it is a globalization.
What do you think about the benefits of globalization and the faults of globalization through this speech?

Blog #10: Japanese Movie Maestro

Hello! This is Koichi.

I'll introduce the Japanese movie maestro, Miyazaki Hayao.

 

He graduated from Gakushuin University in1963. After that, he worked as an animator, though he actually wanted to be a comics artist. However, when he watched "The Snow Queen", he was impressed and decided to be a grest animator. His first derecting work was "未来少年コナン".I've never heard it.

In 1984, he created his first animation film, "風の谷のナウシカ”. I think most of people have watched this movie.

Since then, he made many animation films, such as "もののけ姫", "魔女の宅急便" and "千と千尋の神隠し".　They are really interesting, but my favorite Ghibli animation is "となりのトトロ"!! As you know, this movie is fascinating, especially the last scene.



By the way, do you know there is a rule in the title of his movie? It is that there are a letter "の"　in every title, like "天空の城ラピュタ" and "崖の上のポニョ".

 

Please tell me your favorite Ghibli animation film.

Blog #9: TED

Hello! Tis is Koichi.

I watched "I listen to color" by Neil Harbisson. The speaker can't recognize color. To solve this problem, he invented a machine, which changes the colors into sounds.  Thanks to the device, his world has become colorful. Because he can listen to color, he can also watch musics or speeches. Now, his invention is officially regarded as a part of his body. In his profile photo of the passport, he is taken with the machine. He says we can improve our knowledge if we extend our senses, because the knowledge comes from the senses.

What do you think if we can listen to color?