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**cxddfrxc** · 06-28-2007, 05:33 PM

I'd suggest Kikujiro no natsu (The Summer of Kikujiro) and Dolls. They're both excellent movies by Takeshi Kitano. Kikujiro is a heart-warming comedy about a boy searching for his mother, and Dolls a bit of a drama about tragic love stories.

Oh, and my girlfriend can probably give more advice on Japanese TV series and stuff... There's Densha Otoko, which I haven't actually seen myself, but it's a movie and TV series based on a true story of a geek who saves a girl on the metro from being harassed and finds help on an online forum and ends up with the girl... I don't know how geeky or sappy your daughter is, but that might go down well. Don't know if that's the "richer" you're looking for though.

06-28-2007, 05:33 PM	#33
cxddfrxc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 417 Senior Member	I'd suggest Kikujiro no natsu (The Summer of Kikujiro) and Dolls. They're both excellent movies by Takeshi Kitano. Kikujiro is a heart-warming comedy about a boy searching for his mother, and Dolls a bit of a drama about tragic love stories. Oh, and my girlfriend can probably give more advice on Japanese TV series and stuff... There's Densha Otoko, which I haven't actually seen myself, but it's a movie and TV series based on a true story of a geek who saves a girl on the metro from being harassed and finds help on an online forum and ends up with the girl... I don't know how geeky or sappy your daughter is, but that might go down well. Don't know if that's the "richer" you're looking for though.
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